On The Phone with Niko The Ikon
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05/19/20 • 138 min
Niko the Ikon is an artist and actor in L.A. Join us for a moody quarantine phone call. We invite you to eavesdrop.
We discuss creating harmony between you and your living space and bringing intentionality to your interiors. We also alk about bringing love into day-to-day-life and how this time at home feels like a return to our pre-teen lives and friendship. âIâve been living in a way that I thought was long gone,â Niko tells me. Niko motivates me to clean. We trip out on our relationship to time and space and reflect on sitting at home, spending time alone and how not being a fake bitch is a superpower.
We meditate on the wealth of what weâve shared together as long-time friends and get into cybersex, physical touch and healing our heart chakras. We talk about trusting ourselves, trusting our friends and how the shifting culture around mental health has impacted our relationship. Increasing our permission to be emotionally honest as we go.
We encourage every actor to hold tight to their dream and laugh about auditioning within the limited casting lanes of mainstream media. Niko asks: âWhy is it so often that weâre not allowed to be ourselves?â
We recorded this on the 105th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (April 24) and reflect on the strength of the Armenian diaspora. âOppression always backfires,â Niko tells me. âThe more we deny these things, the easier we make it for the atrocious to be repeated; what a century of denial says is, âYou can get away with this.ââ
This episode is best enjoyed alongside cannabis (tea, aromatherapy, sunshine, and long-form bathing rituals are great too!)
Follow Niko on IG @nikotheikon + Tierney @TSTAR7 and subscribe to the show to get the next episode early. Music is âLet Me Love Youâ by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere). This episode was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla.
Niko the Ikon is an artist and actor in L.A. Join us for a moody quarantine phone call. We invite you to eavesdrop.
We discuss creating harmony between you and your living space and bringing intentionality to your interiors. We also alk about bringing love into day-to-day-life and how this time at home feels like a return to our pre-teen lives and friendship. âIâve been living in a way that I thought was long gone,â Niko tells me. Niko motivates me to clean. We trip out on our relationship to time and space and reflect on sitting at home, spending time alone and how not being a fake bitch is a superpower.
We meditate on the wealth of what weâve shared together as long-time friends and get into cybersex, physical touch and healing our heart chakras. We talk about trusting ourselves, trusting our friends and how the shifting culture around mental health has impacted our relationship. Increasing our permission to be emotionally honest as we go.
We encourage every actor to hold tight to their dream and laugh about auditioning within the limited casting lanes of mainstream media. Niko asks: âWhy is it so often that weâre not allowed to be ourselves?â
We recorded this on the 105th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide (April 24) and reflect on the strength of the Armenian diaspora. âOppression always backfires,â Niko tells me. âThe more we deny these things, the easier we make it for the atrocious to be repeated; what a century of denial says is, âYou can get away with this.ââ
This episode is best enjoyed alongside cannabis (tea, aromatherapy, sunshine, and long-form bathing rituals are great too!)
Follow Niko on IG @nikotheikon + Tierney @TSTAR7 and subscribe to the show to get the next episode early. Music is âLet Me Love Youâ by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere). This episode was recorded and edited by Margot Padilla.
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Andrea Amez – Quarantine Glam with a Holistic Esthetician
Andrea Amez is a holistic esthetician, transformational glow-up practitioner and product concierge. Tierney talks to Andrea about taking care of herself while quarantining at home, opening her own skin studio in LA and infusing some expert know-how into your daily skin and beauty rituals. Andrea talks about avoiding obsessive self-grooming, reading your body by paying attention to inflammation and keeping centered as a self-employed person and small business owner amid economic uncertainty.
Together they discuss beauty acquisitions and brands that plummet in quality after being acquired, the legend of Olaplex, and the mass beauty culture shift currently happening as people canât maintain their fillers, extensions and other aesthetic treatments. They also talk about trying cannabis sheet masks and skincare and using CBD tinctures meant for consumption as a topical face treatment.
Tierney reveals the beauty products sheâs bought online while staying at home, including a certain cult-favorite hair supplement whose infomercial she loves, reflects on beauty rituals as âprayerâ instead of âproof,â and shares a short beauty-inspired reading list.
Andrea explains avoiding talc in makeup and body products, paying attention to product expiration dates and vetting the use of supplements to increase immunity. She also dishes about meeting her fiance at the Aesop store, bonding over Carol's Daughter hair products and proposing to him in Japan.
Andrea answers listener questions like: How can I reduce my redness and inflammation? What are the best foods for detoxifying your skin? What drug-store products will make for the best impromptu at-home facial? What is the best way to treat a breakout without picking it? What kind of masks and treatments can I whip up at home? How and why should I make my health and beauty routines more âexperiential?â Does using a silk pillowcase really make a difference on hair and skin? What can hospital workers use to prevent skin friction from constant mask-wearing? How do I use a gua-sha tool?
Thereâs also a celebration of Earth Day and the New Moon :) Follow Andrea @amez_pro and check out http://www.amezskin.com/ and follow Tierney @tstar7.
Tierney Talks proposes you consider matching any money you spend on beauty non-essentials with donations to individuals and organizations. Tierney and Andrea donated to The Okra Project, a collective that brings healthy meals to black trans and gender non-conforming people. You can do the same by PayPal-ing the Black Trans Solidarity Fund â https://www.paypal.me/btsf â and encourage friends to do the same (or go in together!)
Special thanks to our audio producer Margot Padilla. She produced our opening track too! Stream âLet Me Love Youâ by Dis Fantasy everywhere <3
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Patrisse Cullors, Alexa Demie, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liz Goldwyn, Sanam Sindhi, Peter Shire, Janicza Bravo, Rachel Lord, Seth Bogart, Sam Buck, Justice Singleton + Blaine O’Neill
Tierney Talks hosted the very first TELETHON ForYourart at Frieze Los Angeles in February. We brought our talk show to the art fair and broadcasted live from the ForYourArt booth all Frieze long. The result is a collection of 60+ interviews about art, entertainment and community in Los Angeles. We had so much fun!
This is the first in a five-part series of Tierney Talks episodes documenting TELETHON ForYourart.
Todayâs guests include:
Patrisse Cullors, Alexa Demie, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liz Goldwyn, Sanam Sindhi, Peter Shire, Janicza Bravo, Rachel Lord, Seth Bogart, Sam Buck, Justice Singleton + Blaine OâNeill
Tierney Talks is pleased to partner with For Your Art to present this series of conversations. ForYourArt is a source of free information about L.A.'s art scene and ForYourArtâs mission is to inspire more people to make art a part of our daily lives. Follow FYA on IG @foryourart and check out http://foryourart.com/. Check out their curation of online exhibitions while you stay home.
Follow Tierney on IG and Twitter @TSTAR7 and subscribe if you havenât already. Our show music is âLet Me Love Youâ by Dis Fantasy (streaming everywhere!)
Recorded live on the Paramount Pictures Studio Backlot on February 13, 2020.
Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla and hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.
Special thanks to Jess Calleiro, Niko Karamyan, Bryan Johnson, Ali Madigan, Cobi Krieger, Bettina Korek, Kevin McGarry, Peter Shire, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Pretend Plants and Flowers and Universal Standard.
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