weekend diversion: what to make of the Amazing Strangers of Union Square?

anthropology or voyeurism?
This has been sitting on my virtual pile of interesting because it is weird or interesting because it is disturbing? for six weeks, and I have never been able to figure out which it is, or what it might mean. Maybe you can. Maybe you can. More likely, it doesn’t matter. It is what it is.

h/t NY Times by way of Huffington Post

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