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TV:
"ODDITIES" Seasons 1 - 5 : Discovery and Discovery Science Channel
S.1 E.2: "Model Mortician"
Segment: " Post-Embalming Table"
Obscura's Evan and Ryan bring their find -- a "cooling" table for bodies used after embalming -- to the eclectic home of their mortician client.
S.1 E.8: "Pickled Pig"
Segment: "Fashion Squeeze"
As inspiration for her Victorian-era clothing line, Laura, an Obscura regular and former mortician, tries on various oddities, including a corset and back brace.
S.2 E.2: "Raising the Dead"
Segment: " Bottled Up"
Laura is a model, mortician, and fashion designer, and a favorite Oddities customer. Seeking a unique birthday gift for a friend, Laura is fascinated, and a bit disgusted, by a bottle of testicles preserved in strychnine.
S.3 E.4: "Holiday Bizarre"
Segment: "Rudolph's Revenge"
Mike & Evan dig up some (road) killer taxidermy for Laura's holiday party .After,Mike, Evan and Ryan attend her party and get to see exactly what she's done with her purchase - and enjoy a bit of holiday cheer!
S.3 E.5: "The Smoking Lung"
Segment: "Laura's Embalming Kit"
Laura, a former model and mortician explains some of the tools of the trade.
S.4 E.2: "Mutant Mascot"
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike, Evan & Ryan race to find a new shop centerpiece weird enough to celebrate their new space. Then Andy Animal peddles psychedelic medicine and the DarkLord returns with a reanimating baby of a thousand nightmares.
S.4 E.13: "Vampires Of PhilaHELLphia "
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Laura gets the shop scouring Philadelphia to decorate her vampire themed party. Then Mike & Evan meet a strange ventriloquist, a coffin dealing couple & experience what it was like to sit on Al Capone's porcelain throne
S.4 E.20: "Holiday Bizarre #3"
It's holiday time at Obscura Antiques & Oddities so Mike, Evan & Ryan hold a festive show & tell dinner party for their quirkiest customers including Robot Mike, Laura Flook & Andy Animal. But first an evil clown jams some metal into his face and back.
S.5 E.2: "Brain Bits & Baby Gifts"
At Obscura, Laura Flook shows how shopping for a baby can be like pulling teeth. Then, a painter looks to trade Ryan his elongated skull for something more mesmerizing, and a doctor diagnoses one of Mike & Evan's most mysterious items.
"ODD FOLKS HOME" : Discovery Science Channel
S.1 E.1: "Blood, Pet & Shears"
A model mortician who stitches clothing the same way she stitches dead skin; an artist who shuns paint in favor of a medium he'd die without; a women who collects sculptures from the bowels of her pet.
ART
The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt 2014
'The Confinement of Valediction' The Norwood Club, New York, NY Saatchi and Saatchi Rockefeller Center, New York, NY Auctioned from Paddle 8 to Private Collector
New York Comic Con 2015
Laura Flook, Booth #1247, reedPOP
Expiration Date ~ Special Deadition, Javits Center, New York, NY,
BLOGS
POSEMANIKIN
http://posemanikin.blogspot.com/2013/10/drop-dead-fashion-interview-with-laura.html
GOING OUT IN STYLE
http://www.going-out-in-style.com/blog/2018/2/26/laura-flook
RENEE RUiN
http://www.reneeruin.com/2014/09/capturing-hearts-of-strange-and-unique.html
PUBLICATIONS
HAT TRICK MAGAZINE
https://issuu.com/hat.trick/docs/mag2012.08
EXPIRATION DATE ~Special Deadition~
Comic Book Creator, Author, Photographer, Illustrator, Editor and Publisher
REFINERY29
I had no idea who REFINERY29 was at the time they published a piece on me. Anyhow, whoever is reading this - take heart ! it turns out, some things on the internet are NOT permanent !
http://www.refinery29.com/13996 An Embalmer Turned Model Turned Fashion Designer
BLACKBOOK
This article too, is no longer.
http://www.bbook.com/artist-laura-flook-creation-upcoming-faberge-big-egg-hunt