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Martine Syms
American Artist
Born: 1988
Feel Grew Me Myself Think Work
Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value. Martine Syms
Value Machines Entrepreneurs Ideas Became Making Wanted Create
Representation is a sort of surveillance. Martine Syms
Sort Surveillance Representation
I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen. Martine Syms
Website Experience Relationships Feel Between Like Terms Lot Screen Film Actually Designing
I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way. Martine Syms
Experience Think On-Screen Way Definitely Universal
I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent. Martine Syms
Power Obsessed Cent Produced Really Show Now Right
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon. Martine Syms
Good Opportunities Black Men Ali Types Those Some Point Ray Mostly Became Transcend Available Movies Icon Serious Actor Play
It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching for a more targeted audience. Martine Syms
You Internet Changes Broad Everything Kind More Casting Instead Weird Reaching Audience How Narrow Targeted
I grew up in Altadena, California. Martine Syms
California Up Grew
I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set. Martine Syms
Work Myself People Money Parents Extra Everybody Everybody Else Else Way Bit Neighbors Jobs More Could Never Liked Make Industry Got Doing Lot Up Very Being Grew Interested Far Us Worked Much Let Us Film Actually Conscious Film Industry Set
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present. Martine Syms
Values Books Way TV Absence Voracious Always Cultural Different Interested Movies Present Presented
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it. Martine Syms
Think Television TV More Onto Sitcom Essential Represents Form Format Canon Which Why
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. Martine Syms
Embodied Identities Ideologies Narratives Always How Been Interested Viewers Manufacturing
I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way. Martine Syms
Language Think Thinking Heritage Liberal Way Pretty About Part California Household Cultural Traditions Up Southern Southern California Any Grew Interest Really Grow Grow Up Second
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things. Martine Syms
Myself Those Case Economic Area Study Look Up Interested Certain Reason Using Growing Growing Up Specific Things Sociological
My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. Martine Syms
Writing Intimate Feel Mostly Real Want Fiction
I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value. Martine Syms
Value Think Way Entrepreneurship Creating
I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value. Martine Syms
Myself Me Value Finished Nothing Down Complete Visitor Kind Had Studio Piece Annoyed Wrote Operating Question Afterwards Ask Realized Ever
Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology. Martine Syms
Work Culture Ideology Every No-One Part Perfectly Advertising Accepting Narrative Pop Pop Culture Watching
Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago. Martine Syms
Me Science Random Example Live Saw Recognise Out Some Angeles Supermarket For Example Know Qualities Science Fiction How Los Los Angeles Line Years Years Ago Commercial Person Front Six Fiction Realise Place Them Figure Standing Many Suddenly
There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too. Martine Syms
Sad You Reality Clothes Too Extremely Crisp Having Through Idea Absurdity Get Going Door Certain Amount
I played sports growing up, and I worked out a lot. Then, when I moved back to L.A., I just fell off everything. Martine Syms
Sports Back Everything Out Fell Lot Off Up Just Moved Then Worked Growing Growing Up Played
I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations. Martine Syms
Summer Television Would Up Grew Vacations Watching Tons

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