All Flakked Up

Today's Flak Photo © Emily Shur

Coming to you from the Salt Lake City airport this Friday the 13th, to share with you my picture on today's Flak Photo! I love this photo. Thank you so much to Andy Adams at Flak Photo for his continual support and exposure of my work. Another big thanks to Elizabeth Avedon for her post today as well. Their compliments mean so much to me. Stuff like this makes me happy. Time to go home now.

For My Mom

Pink Convertible, 2009 © Emily Shur

Today is my mom's birthday and a big birthday at that. I thought this would be a good excuse to post a picture I took last weekend while out shooting more for my project. This picture has nothing to do with the project itself, but it was too good to pass up so I shot a couple of impromptu sheets of film. My mom loves pink and is very young at heart, so this image is my little tribute to her.

My Network Television Debut

Me and Tina Fey....like peas and carrots

My Bust cover of Amy Poehler was hanging in Liz Lemon's office on last night's episode of 30 Rock! This is one of my all time favorite shoots and all time favorite subjects. The original is here:

Amy Poehler © Emily Shur

Devo at The Fonda

Last night the husband and I got to see Devo perform Freedom of Choice in its' entirety, front to back, at The Fonda. Pretty cool. It sounded surprisingly good; like no time had passed or taken any sort of toll on the musical abilities of the band. And how cool is Mark Mothersbaugh...I mean, seriously.

Anyway, they played a few videos before the show, one of which was Whip It, and it got me to thinking about my generation...MTV, technology, people's vision of what the future will be, how it will look, how wrong we usually are, stuff like that. The project I have been working on is kind of loosely related to these concepts, and I actually now have a good beginning of an artist statement going on in my head.

Before last night, I never realized how random and creative the video for Whip It is. The dude ranch, the cross eyed Asian lady, the Norman Rockwell color palette. Awesome. I really enjoy color when it looks this way. It seems everyone, including myself, has been on a muted, sort of pastel kick lately. I love a soft and subtle image, but last night I remembered how much I love bold color as well.

Some Rough Scans - Japan, Part 2

19. Takao...you can't really tell here, but there are two butterflies in this picture

20. Cemetery, again, not sure exactly where I was

21. Chiba

22. Minami Senju

23. Takao

24. Takao

25. Rikugien Garden

26. Tokyo

27. Rikugien Garden

28. Arakawa Yuenchi, Tokyo

29. Kurihama Port

30. Takao

31. Lake Chuzenji, Nikko

32. Nakano

33. Nakano

34. Takao

35. Spider Web, Takao

36. Shibuya

37. Takao

38. Takao

39. Shibuya

All Images © Emily Shur 2009

Here is round two, again in no particular order. I'm not in love with all of these, but I thought I'd post everything I scanned in hopes of getting some feedback. You never know what people will respond to. Well, at least I don't. Thanks very much to everyone who commented on the previous "rough scans" post. To make things a bit easier in terms of commenting, I numbered these images as well as the images in part one.

Photo of the Day: The Baroness - Halloween Edition

Cave Dog © Emily Shur 2009

The Baroness is all ready for Halloween. This year she decided to get in touch with her animalistic side and go as a cavewoman. She's going for a sexy barbarian kind of thing. She is woman. Hear her roar.

Some Rough Scans - Japan, Part 1

1. Rikugien Garden, Tokyo

2. Nikko

3. Nikko

4. Nikko

5. The View From My Room, Tokyo

6. Cemetery, not exactly sure where I was...

7. Takao

8. Rikugien Garden, Tokyo

9. Arakawa Yuenchi, Tokyo

10. Ferry Ride From Kurihama

11. Ferry Ride from Kurihama

12. Nikko

13. Shibuya

14. Nakano

15. Takao

16. Tokyo

17. Takao

18. My Room, Tokyo

All Images © Emily Shur 2009

Here are a whole bunch of randoms, in no particular order, from my most recent trip to Japan, and when I say rough scans, I really do mean rough. I'll post another batch soon. Right now these are my favorites. Comments are welcomed and appreciated.