A Dance Parade, Protesters, Painters & People Stealing Garbage

People protesting something going on in Turkey.

A crazy guy dancing with a toilet seat. He usually does this by the large black cube at Astor Place. — A crazy guy dancing with the molding from a van window, I think. He usually does this by the large black cube at Astor Place.

This guy was taking a break from dancing to the tune of a nearby Buddhist meditation group. Shortly after this, he took a bag of trash from the public bin and walked away with it.

This is Francis Virella. He wants to make it big as an artist.

Today, there were all sorts of things going on in Union Square. We just happened to be walking through and saw a crazy guy dancing, another crazy guy stealing a bag of garbage from a public trash can, had a conversation with a guy that wants to make it big as an artist, and then wandered into a dance parade. It was a lot of fun, and the random, amazingly entertaining things that you can just stumble into is one of the reasons I love New York City.