Chemical Cut Page #2
away all that pulp, you know.
- Listen, I'll tell you
a secret, you can get
a dehydrator , you can
compact all that pulp
and make these lovely
crispy yummy crackers.
- Oh my gosh.
- I'm ready to work, you're ready?
- [Irene] Yeah, I'm
not leaving till we get
a great shot.
- Wonderful, well we are
not reinventing the wheel
here so hopefully we're
all done by three, okay?
Alright let's get started.
Don't move to much, let
me give you the directions
okay a little bit to your
left, your other left,
okay great, hmm, too much,
not that much profile okay,
chin down, in a little
bit gimme your eyes,
very good, there, now we're talking.
jacket and we're gonna put
this shirt on.
- Nice okay, do the profiles.
Turn your head a little bit towards me
when you do that, there you go,
night three quarter shot, okay, turn.
- Susan how are you?
- I'm good, I'm doing
well, I'm really busy but,
you know that's great
so yeah, how about you?
- Yeah it's really crazy, I
just came back from Arizona
and I had no idea how it
looks like New York and LA
have sucked up all of
the creative people
out of the country, it's
like all the creatives,
all the artists all the pretty people,
they've all moved from
other parts of the country
to LA and New York,
and nobody else exists.
- That's true like totally.
- [Makeup Artist] Like my
family's back in the Midwest,
and they just think I'm
crazy going out in LA
doing makeup, but I mean, they're all
in the medical industry,
you know, doctors,
scientists, so, yeah it's a
Do you do a lot of beauty?
shoot for my portfolio.
- [Susan] Uh, I could be down with that.
- [Makeup Artist] Okay,
okay yeah, I just,
I really need a model
with a good strong face.
- [Man] Ed Haunts.
(laughing)
- [Susan] Totally.
(waves wooshing)
- I had my first shoot yesterday.
- Really?
How'd it go?
- They didn't really
care about the picture
they talked about themselves, that's it.
- Yeah, big f***ing surprise,
they don't care about being creative,
so I don't get why you're
getting involved with them.
- I have reasons.
- Like what?
You're not getting paid,
you're not gonna get
any respect like ever, and
so you, you're bored.
- No, I like image making.
- You didn't get cool
images, you look like sh*t.
Why are you modeling, really?
- It's complicated.
- I'm sure it is, yeah.
Oh Arthur, I've been an
just let me be a swan this
one time, please, please.
- My next job will be better.
In a year I'll be unsignable
so I'll just do this now.
- Why are you running away?
(laughing)
(waves wooshing)
Yeah, drown for all I care.
You're so annoying.
Oh my God.
I get it, I get it.
You can come out now.
- [Man on P.A.] Doors are closing.
- You know, what do you
wanna say f*** you
when you got nothing left.
Nobody wants to f*** me now.
I'm a Vietnam Vet.
Probably did more than five years
and the rest you
motherfuckers all day long.
Nobody wants to f*** you
when you got nothing left.
Why can't people come together?
Get rid of the grub, get rid of it.
Now I don't wanna tell
you how to live your life,
who am I to tell anybody
how to live their life.
I'm just telling what I know.
My son, said he's been with a boy.
When I ask him why he go ahead, he said
I just wanted to see what
it was like with a boy.
When my wife and I were together,
we made babies all day long.
I just, it cost less to keep her.
Less to keep her.
(man talking over P.A)
My stop.
(Skype notification resonating)
- It's 3 a.m. is something wrong?
what I need you to do, okay,
is open your email and
there's a Word doc in there,
so open the Word doc, okay,
you know how to do that, right?
Read what I sent you
and just, there might be
one or two typos okay, that's all,
you know it's like, the
devil's in the details,
please, save me the groundwork,
and send it back to me it'll be perfect.
- Can you,
can you give me a day or two?
- No, open your eyes, open your emails.
- Okay, I'll do it right now.
- Come on, yes, come on please.
- [Arthur] He is stead fast,
resolute, and utterly silent
fastly, resolutely, silently,
as water he is accustomed
to pounding against
ocean side cliffs making
them crumble to the ground.
All the while he is indifferent.
(phone buzzing)
(exhaling)
- I booked you for a free
test today at 10 a.m.
Foundation applied, mascara,
eyelashes if you have 'em,
nude manicure, buffed
pedicure, bikini ready,
nude strapless bra, nude regular bra,
- Why don't you just
start by bending over?
Yeah, yeah, turn around and ben over.
It's not as naughty as I thought,
turn back around?
Okay, okay.
Okay, do something different,
something different.
That's better, that's better.
That's creative, very nice,
very creative, good.
If you're okay I'll just
shoot this just for fun.
now shut your eyes.
Shut your f***ing eyes.
Now hang your head.
Perfect, you know what I mean,
modeling it's about taking
something in your life,
something from your life.
You understand what I'm
saying when I say life?
Okay, you understand,
and then, you bring it
into your work, do you know
what I mean when I say work?
Yes okay so be in your life,
right now we're just me and you,
we're in our lives,
make me wanna f*** you,
right now, like we're gonna f***
right here right now, like
you're gonna f*** me right there
make me wanna do it, right now.
This is not a game okay, if you do it,
I'm gonna f*** you, you understand?
That's how real I want it to be.
Okay, good, let's go.
Let's go.
What are you doing?
Alright let's just have
a little chat alright?
Just you and me, alright,
no more photographer model, okay?
Just person to person, alright.
You've f***ed before, right?
Right?
So you know how to do that,
I know you do, I see it in your eyes,
I know you made a man wanna do that.
Alright okay, that's yes,
now bring that into work,
yeah and I'm gonna take a picture of it
if you can manifest it, I'm
gonna record it on the photo
sensor, bring it in,
bring it into work now,
bring it into work zone,
work, work, work, work,
come on let's manifest
it, ah, you almost had it,
I almost took a picture.
Alright, I didn't wanna do this,
let's just try something a
little more conventional,
just be an innocent but
dirty little girl.
Innocent but dirty.
- They're not using
those, they're too artsy,
it was a nine hour shoot,
three hour roundtrip,
free work no food.
- You can quit.
- I'm not gonna quit, I just started.
- I don't know hun, I don't
know what to tell you,
I don't know what they're looking for,
but if you're getting stressed out,
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