1 00:00:04,772 --> 00:00:09,522 [hums and whistles] 2 00:00:09,522 --> 00:00:11,518 Come here 3 00:00:11,518 --> 00:00:13,542 [whistles] 4 00:00:13,573 --> 00:00:18,150 The enthusiasm when she comes is amazing [laughs] 5 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,361 [OFF-SCREEN INTERVIEWER] "So is there a routine for you?" 6 00:00:23,361 --> 00:00:29,198 Pretty much guaranteed that i'm going to go to the studio, at some point or several times in the day 7 00:00:31,890 --> 00:00:40,970 [whistles] 8 00:00:42,355 --> 00:00:45,346 This is going to be exciting, to have-- 9 00:00:45,346 --> 00:00:48,439 This new big surface. 10 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:51,107 [whistles] 11 00:00:52,008 --> 00:00:56,178 "Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works" 12 00:00:56,632 --> 00:01:01,183 [sound of electric sander against canvas] 13 00:01:01,931 --> 00:01:05,948 Eddie Martinez--Artist 14 00:01:10,838 --> 00:01:13,639 Franny--French Bulldog 15 00:01:23,442 --> 00:01:27,717 Alright, let's see if I can't get a little sketch up on here. 16 00:01:27,717 --> 00:01:28,998 [shakes spray can] 17 00:01:29,028 --> 00:01:31,725 [Whistles] 18 00:01:31,725 --> 00:01:35,208 [Sound of spray can] 19 00:01:35,208 --> 00:01:37,644 I learned a massive amount from graffitti 20 00:01:37,644 --> 00:01:40,293 that I've taken into the studio, 21 00:01:40,293 --> 00:01:42,338 [whistles] 22 00:01:42,338 --> 00:01:43,675 [sound of spray paint] 23 00:01:43,675 --> 00:01:46,349 in terms of scale and how to make large marks 24 00:01:46,349 --> 00:01:51,679 and how to take a small drawing and make it large. 25 00:01:51,679 --> 00:01:55,214 I mean, that's totally invaluable, the skill set. 26 00:01:56,598 --> 00:01:57,796 Not bad. 27 00:01:58,334 --> 00:02:02,168 [sound of spray can] 28 00:02:02,199 --> 00:02:06,678 It's sort of like a boxing ring in here--it's a very physical process. 29 00:02:06,771 --> 00:02:08,088 [sound of spray paint] 30 00:02:08,088 --> 00:02:10,174 Maybe I'm a little addicted to that. 31 00:02:10,174 --> 00:02:10,979 [sound of spray paint] 32 00:02:10,979 --> 00:02:15,369 It's a real part of my life--it's a real way for me to work things out, 33 00:02:15,369 --> 00:02:18,751 outside of just the actual painting. 34 00:02:18,751 --> 00:02:21,219 [sound of spray can] 35 00:02:33,145 --> 00:02:35,715 God damn it, come on. 36 00:02:39,485 --> 00:02:44,264 I might be one of the most impatient people in the world. 37 00:02:44,264 --> 00:02:51,704 Certainly, at times I can't control how the anxiety and impatience and aggressive energy comes out. 38 00:02:52,874 --> 00:03:00,924 It's best when it happens in here, so I like to try and harness that cause no one can judge me, or... 39 00:03:12,003 --> 00:03:14,631 [sound of feet shuffling] 40 00:03:22,522 --> 00:03:27,348 I do have to trick myself into getting through parts of a painting. 41 00:03:27,348 --> 00:03:31,912 [dog barking] 42 00:03:31,912 --> 00:03:37,718 Come on, Fanny, come on. 43 00:03:37,718 --> 00:03:44,312 If it gets to a point where I know a painting's going to be a painting, sometimes there's that real sense of chore, 44 00:03:45,696 --> 00:03:49,396 So then i'll have to, like, drink a bottle of wine [laughs] 45 00:03:49,396 --> 00:03:51,180 Or do something fun, 46 00:03:51,180 --> 00:03:52,737 Like walking around Greenpoint. 47 00:03:54,399 --> 00:04:06,728 [sound of tapping rhythmically] 48 00:04:06,728 --> 00:04:20,274 [whistles] 49 00:04:20,274 --> 00:04:27,994 The best thing, and the most freeing feeling for me, is when I'm just moving the brush and making those strokes 50 00:04:27,994 --> 00:04:31,963 and am not standing back across the room looking at it. 51 00:04:34,041 --> 00:04:36,574 it's when I'm completely lost in there. 52 00:04:36,574 --> 00:04:40,800 [sound of brush against canvas] 53 00:04:41,001 --> 00:04:46,920 There's that sense that I can express any kind of movement or action or noise or whatever i want in there. 54 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:58,479 [sound of brush scraping against canvas] 55 00:04:58,525 --> 00:04:59,814 [sighs] 56 00:05:08,308 --> 00:05:17,978 [sound of foot tapping lightly] 57 00:05:22,225 --> 00:05:23,506 I think that's it. 58 00:05:23,506 --> 00:05:27,802 I think if I start painting I'm going to start making mistakes. 59 00:05:27,802 --> 00:05:28,394 "Yeah" 60 00:05:28,501 --> 00:05:30,049 Which is fine, but i dont want to. 61 00:05:30,125 --> 00:05:31,154 "Yeah" 62 00:05:34,031 --> 00:05:39,830 But the composition is working and that's exciting. I love when i get a first composition. That's pretty rare-- 63 00:05:39,830 --> 00:05:43,265 A first take composition that i want to go with. 64 00:05:45,018 --> 00:05:48,235 Now I said that and I see something I hate but... 65 00:05:48,235 --> 00:05:49,677 "What do you hate?" 66 00:05:49,677 --> 00:05:53,566 This shoulder shape here, it should come into like, 67 00:05:53,566 --> 00:05:54,841 it should drop off, like, there. 68 00:05:54,841 --> 00:05:56,580 [sound of pallet knife scraping against canvas] 69 00:05:58,642 --> 00:06:06,581 When I can make a drawing in 25 minutes and be really moved by it, that's what I want to be painting. 70 00:06:09,873 --> 00:06:13,240 But I dont know how to do it yet, which is exciting, 71 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,861 Because if I already knew how to do it, that'd be kind of depressing [laughs] 72 00:06:17,924 --> 00:06:21,311 [sings "I live my life on..."] 73 00:06:26,776 --> 00:06:34,360 [whistles lightly]