I could have sworn he said 4:30
so I'm walking around the store and I'm like, ok
4:30 it's go-time, I bend down to tie my shoe
pop my shirt off and put it in my fanny pack
I'm walking around for good five or four minutes
and I see a couple other guys and I look at them
and give them the nod, they're just looking at me
one looks at his watch and points, and I'm like
"oh shit", so I'm walking around for a good five, ten minutes
and they don't say anything to me until everybody else
takes off their shirt, and I'm like, "ahhh"
I was really looking at this rack of shirts, and a salesperson
came over and said, "you either have to wear a shirt or you have to leave"
it was a very cute girl, and I said
"you guys happen to have this in a small?"
and she said, "no, what we have here is what we've got", and I said
"I really need this in a small"
and she's like, "I'll check in the back"
(laughs) and she went to go check in the back, and she came back to say
"we don't have this in a small, but you really have to leave right now"
so I was walking down the stairs and it was a middle aged woman
a very practical looking woman and she just flatly asked me
"why does everyone not have their shirt on?"
and I said "well, you know, the weather has been back and forth lately,
and I think a lot of people thought it'd be warm this weekend"
and she looked at me, like, oh, that's a reasonable response
I just feel a finger running down the middle of my back
I turn around and there's this old lady passing by
I guess she just got really into the moment
I was coming down the stairs and just getting pushed and "man-handled"
and then this old man bumps into this sales associate
who is trying to escort me out and then the guy turns around and says
"don't you fucking push me", to the old man
and then the old man was like, "do you work here? what's your name?"
and the worker was like "yeah, I work here, I don't care what you think,
I'm trying to get these people out of here.", "Get the fuck away" to the old man said
I was taking a picture of the male model at the very end
he saw my camera and he came up to me and grabbed me, and said
"is that a video camera? hey take this guy's camera, confiscate it, he's got a video camera"
and I said, "hey, it's just a still camera", he said "I'm sick of this shit"
he tasseled with me and I wrestled back
and then I put it down and flipped it up
and showed him it was just a still camera
I reached out to shake the model's hand and he said to me
"I'm not playing your game anymore"
I was right at the cashier, and the cashier was trying to sell me some perfume
and at that point I got nabbed by the security guy
and I couldn't even buy a shirt before I got out of there
"did you have fun?"
yeah
"did you see anything funny?"
yeah, the prices (laughter)
I was downstairs shooting in the back, a real short story
I was shooting in the back and one of the employees
ran by one of the other employees, "this is the best day ever"
(laughter)
I went up to the girl left standing there, and said "why is this the best day ever?"
and she said "all these guys without shirts are not with us"
and the other one said "they're not!?"
(laughter)
but she thought it was great, she thought it was hilarious
so we were shopping, trying to guess the prices of the shirts
cause we thought that'd be a fun game to play
and eventually a friend of ours was trying to get shirt
so we were gonna go, and one of the guys
grabs us and says "you guys gotta go, we're gonna call the cops"
and we're like "really, we just wanna buy this shirt", and he's saying
"no, no, you can't do that, we're gonna call the cops"
and then one of the other sales people came up to us and said
"I really like what you guys are doing"
(laughter)
it made it all worth while
when people were coming up to me, and asking "what are you guys doing?"
I told them, "we're all models" and they said "are you doing a shoot?"
we said, "yeah, we did a shoot in central park and
we came over here to do shoot with Abercrombie and Fitch"
and they were like, "oh, that's really cool" and then
the more people that asked me, and the more I said "we're all models"
I realized the true meaning of what was going on
people asked me, "what's the message of all this?"
and I kept saying, "we're all models", and then someone got it
"ohh, you're all models, and we're all models"
and I said "sure, why not, we are all models", (laughter)
my favorite moment was right at the end, I was
basically at the front of the store pointing inward
and the model had an attendent with them
and they were both shell-shocked, one of them had a little camera
and they were both starring out the front of the door
just stunned, and behind them was this frame photo of another naked man
so this big naked man that's a real big photo
and I'm just looking at them being washed over by this experience
and the attendent snapped back, she said to model "you're being shot, you're being filmed"
and they crumpled off into the store so what we left with
is we forced the topless guy into their own store
at the end of it we left someone topless around the store
because we forced their own model in there, it was great