Tangible House w/ Nick Sabatalo
by Nick Sabatalo
The official podcast of human being Nick Sabatalo.
Podcast episodes
Season 1
#6 Tiffany Cole - Advice to Artists From An Artist
Full Uncut Video Conversation With Tiffany + Feature On Her Artwork - online: www.TangibleHouse.com "Make bad, make ugly art!" In this special episode 6 of The Tangible House Show, host Nick Sabatalo has an inspiring conversation with his good friend and fine art artist Tiffany Cole. Tiffany is currently based in London, but started her art career living in Los Angeles and ironically she first met Nick at an art gallery show opening in downtown LA. This was just around the beginning of when Tiffany started taking her art seriously and focusing on it full time, but Tiffany tells Nick on the show that things have not always been that way for her. Before art, she was lost. She says, "I couldn't even take a shower without having a panic attack." She had failed relationships, jobs that were unfulfilling to her and she tells Nick, "Everything I had in my life is not what I wanted." And then through that pain and uncertainty she started to create and it was a good friend of hers and fellow artist, Libby Pressnall, who really pushed her to pursue this new passion with everything she has! Tiffany gives advice to all artists and creatives, "You need to make yourself known," she adds "That's how you're going to find clients, by consistently making yourself known." Tiffany shares some beautiful life wisdom that, "Something can be done about it...I always keep that in view in mind." She tells us that she's "I've been through...the worst lows...and everything destroyed and sick and can't do shit and in the hospital," but adds that she's also been able to meet her idols and have them appreciate and even buy her art. So, Tiffany puts it simply, "In any situation no matter where you're at you can create something to get yourself out of any situation." Tiffany and Nick laugh about how throughout their friendship it's hard to say who was the more broke artist at times than the other. Tiffany is as humble as she is talented and on the show gives some honest insight into what the real life and journey as an artist is like, not the overly glamorized painting in our heads that social media can sometimes capture. It's full of hard work and likely a lot more rejections and empty pockets at the beginning than the great successes that you strive for, but as Tiffany puts it, she'd rather be doing art and struggling than a job that she has no love for. Let's jump right into the conversation with Tiffany and get inspired by this talented artist and incredible woman! Follow On Instagram Guest: @TiffanyCole Host: @NickSabatalo Music (intro & outro): @_jusconrad Show: @TangibleHouse
#5 Laurel Thoma - Model, Photographer, Yoga Teacher
Full Uncut Video Conversation With Laurel + Feature On Her Photography & Favorite Modeling Images Online At www.TangibleHouse.com In this episode of The Tangible House Show we have an inspiring conversation with model and photographer Laurel Thoma. Laurel tells us how she has been around film cameras her whole life as her dad was a photographer. Although she got her first SLR film camera when she was 17, even as a kid she was always would bringing disposable cameras with her on trips. She confesses that she has this uncontrollable urge to document special moments as they happen all around her, a compulsion that if it's even possible someday she would very much like to turn that off. Laurel shares what inspires her most as a photographer, the light being number one and how a still morning with the right light is enough to make her want to capture that moment on film. Laurel says she sees inspiration in everything and so beautifully says, "life is like a painting." Irving Penn is a photographer whom she admires his work and I personally see his influence in her own images especially in their mutual appreciation of beauty in still life and not just the typical beauty of a fashion woman for example, which is the world Laurel comes from as a model. Laurel goes on to explain that physical beauty is rarely what attracts her in what she finds to be a great image. Laurel has an ongoing self portrait series that has happened naturally given her spontaneous photographic style. She has not yet gone out into the world with her camera with the intention of taking a self portrait she says, but rather if she catches herself in the mirror and the light is nice for example then that is when she can't help herself in documenting yet another moment. She says photography is a great way to document her life and how she is feeling in those moments and even on occasion her self portraits capture her at a time when she is otherwise falling apart in her life...which is so beautiful in its tragedy that she is the one to capture it and take note of it herself with her own eye and hand as an artist. I would imagine the process of shooting those moments in her life could be very therapeutic...at the very least it makes for an emotional and raw image! At the moment, Laurel is very much still a working fashion model by profession and as she puts it, she is her own commodity...which she laughs and says probably isn't healthy. Laurel shares her goals of wanting to publish books of her photography someday, yes books as in many books, but humbly notes that she has no desire to be a "name" and I believe her. She truly is an artist who creates for herself and that undeniable urge that she has and cannot shut off. Laurel has started printing her film images in the darkroom and I personally hope to see a gallery show of her work soon, a mix of her self portraits and her still life. Laurel is incredibly bright and humble and she shares some beautiful life wisdom with us that we can each grow from. Let's jump right into the conversation with Laurel and get inspired by this talented young woman! Follow On Instagram @LaurelToma @NickSabatalo @TangibleHouse
#4 Kayla Gallagher - From Working In A Drug Rehab Center To Becoming A Fashion Model
This is The Tangible House Show, I am your host, Nick Sabatalo, where I am having a face-to-face conversation with Kayla Gallagher who shares with us her own incredible life experiences. Watch. Listen. Get Inspired. To watch the full length recorded video of each episode and browse the blog post with photos from the show visit the Tangible House Show blog at www.tangiblehouse.com This episode is with fashion model Kayla Gallagher. Kayla talks about how she didn't look at herself as someone who could model. She confesses to having her own insecurities about her looks and it wasn't until she started hearing from others that she should try modeling that she even thought she could do it. Kayla then shares the story of how she was first scouted by a modeling agency at a surf competition and is she puts it, the rest was history. Kayla opens up our minds and hearts by sharing the story of what her job was prior to modeling. At age 19 she worked at a drug rehab center and her experience really reminds all of us to not judge others we don't know anything about, because it was her experience with these patients that they often were the kindest individuals regardless of battling their own drug addictions. The conversation dives into topics of manifestation and meditation and Kayla leaves us with what she feels is her words to live by, wisdom that all of us will be able to relate to. Watch. Listen. Get Inspired. Follow On Instagram: Kayla @KLAGALLAGHER Host Of The Show @NICKSABATALO Show @TANGIBLEHOUSE
#3 Rose Smith - After Ten Years Of Modeling She's Started Doing Self Portraits
To watch the recorded video of the show and full features on the guests including photos visit the Tangible House Show blog. This episode is with New York based model and photographer Rose Smith. Rose has been modeling for over 10 years and shares with us how even though it has brought her amazing opportunities, the industry and job of a model is not as perfect as people think it to be, it is also full of rejection, egos and sometimes a blunt disregard for the model's humanity. Rose has recently found a passion in photography through her ongoing self portrait series on film and we talk about the behind the scenes details of her process and how far she wants to take the series, definitely a gallery show in the near future! She confesses how the shooting process of self portraits has affected her as a person and given her a new sense of self confidence that her prior modeling experience wasn't able to give her. Rose has just begun to shoot other fashion models and we talk about her goals of the future and being published. Together we talk about our inspirations as photographers and what words we try to live by and Rose reminds us all, "To be as happy as you can be, wherever you are." Follow Rose Smith on Instagram The Tangible House Show, hosted by Nick Sabatalo. IG @NickSabatalo
#2 Brittany Hoffner - Actress and Model Tells Us It's More Than Ok To Have A Side Hustle...or Two
This episode of The Tangible Show is with Los Angeles based model and actress, Brittany Hoffner. I am your host, Nick Sabatalo, let's get right into the conversation with Brittany! Brittany is one of those girls who is always keeping herself busy, hustling every step of the way be it taking acting classes or shooting with a photographer or working her part-time job and I know recently she was working two part-time jobs! Brittany is one of the hardest working people I know hands down and in our conversation she shares her wisdom with us all that it's more than ok to hustle, it's necessary, and we can't be caught up in thinking about what others think of us all the time because at the end of the day...no one really cares! You have to do what you have to in order to do the things you want and as a creative pursuing your dreams it means having to sometimes put our ego aside and doing what must be done. This was so refreshing for her to say because I think there is a stigma that models have it easy and that the LA life is so laid back, but for those of us trying to "make it" it doesn't just get handed to you. Just as it's important to work hard, Brittany reminds us all that it's also important to not take life so seriously and remember to enjoy yourself and have fun. Advice that she admits she needs to take for herself and I could relate too. Full Feature online Tangible House plus other features from the show. Follow On Social Media Brittany Hoffner Tangible House Nick Sabatalo