The annual Santa invasion happened this past Saturday, mostly in Manhattan. I walked a tricky line between participating and shooting the video. You lose a lot of the sociability of such events when you are constantly on the lookout for the next good shot. So you better watch out for excellent hula hooping, fantastic Santa Capoeira and loads of silly costumes and antics. I guess I should mark this one a little nsfw, for some naughty language.
For some reason the longer version I had on Google Video is no longer working. So I split it in half to put it on YouTube, which has a ten-minute limit on size. (Update: Google fixed it. See it in one piece here.
Part 1 starts on Pier 45, Hudson River Park in the West Village where the Elves gave love to the firemen, and Santa headed on to Connolly’s Pub near Times Square with Reverend Billy, to then invade Grand Central Station, and spin the Astor Place Cube (Alamo).
Santa Sunglasses
Santa Slinger
Santa Hooper
Santa Grab My Pole
Business Elf
Unsilent Santas 2002
SantaCon NYC 2003
SantaCon NYC 2004
Santa Stumble 2005
awesome
Thank you for explaining this phenomenon! I was playing at the Union Square subway station and I noticed many Santas walking by. I got curious so I searched the Net for an answer…
Cool!
All the best,
‘Saw Lady’
fantastic!…loved seeing the video and all the traipsing SantaCrazies and the SantaHoopers were cool!.
thx for being so good…santa will reward you on xmas day…just check your chimney!
I’m so glad I bought that. It made for a great storytime!
Yeah that was some story. I remember things glistening and undulating.
You are welcome, Saw Lady. Check out her website for all your holiday musical saw needs.
And darn, patrice, I don’t think my building has a chimney. Hope santa doesn’t try using the sewage vent pipes. I should put a warning note on the roof, next to the milk and cookies.
Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Time to share, Shades to wear, and we’d love to have your photo added to the group.
this is safe!!!
and an hour later I was incoherent
Santa doesn’t demand coherence in his elves this time of year.
hey! I am the first hooper in the 2nd video!! c’est moi! i love the editing so it shows where i dont fuck up. However, it’s a shame I was facing the other way for the majority of the time. so sorry.
you said you had some footage from dance parade as well? ooOooOooh. i would like to see it!
Oh man, having those capoeira santas show up was pure genius…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4reS58pq0
Where is that, gore?
san fransisco