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Brunch with Crustcrumbs

by Jen April 12, 2016
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Brunch with Crustcrumbs

I know it’s been a long time since I updated, so I wanted to share some new work I’m doing with food stylist John Kruusi.  John and I teamed up a few years ago to start Crustcrumbs, a creative project to combine my photography and his food styling.  In 2014, we hosted a Thanksgiving photoshoot for Stocksy that was a lot of fun and a huge success.  This year, we’re happy to announce that we’ve officially partnered with Stocksy to produce exclusive food lifestyle content.

One of our first big photoshoots was an epic brunch scene.  John made and styled a series of amazing dishes, and we shot 6 models enjoying the food.  Here are just a few of the menu items:

  • Oysters on sea salt with kimchi and green onion pieces and fried brioche
  • Hot smoked trout with horseradish cream, pickled beets, and savory
  • Roasted tomatoes on the vine with goat cheese rounds
  • Grilled pork chops, roasted bone marrow, roasted Roma tomatoes, grilled maple sausage, and blood sausage
  • Poached eggs with sautéed spinach, hollandaise and toasted bread

You can view the shoot on Stocksy.  Here are some of my favourite images from the series.

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Overhead group brunch party by Crustcrumbs

Messy table after brunch

Messy table after brunch by Crustcrumbs

Friends enjoying a brunch party

Friends enjoying a brunch party by Crustcrumbs

Group of friends enjoying brunch by Crustcrumbs

Group of friends enjoying brunch by Crustcrumbs

Man spreading marmelade on bread by Crustcrumbs

Man spreading marmelade on bread by Crustcrumbs

Check out our growing portfolio of food and lifestyle stock images on Stocksy!

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Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

by Jen May 8, 2014
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Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Since October, my friend John Kruusi and I have been running a food blog called Crustcrumbs.  We shoot a variety of different styles of food in the different scenarios in which you would eat it.  Sometimes it’s delicious food, like a big turkey dinner, and sometimes it’s… well, not so delicious.  Like actual recipes straight out of housekeeping magazines from the 70s, made by our favourite local Toronto comedy duo, Terrific Women.  We’re nearing the end of 70s Week on Crustcrumbs, so I thought I would share some behind-the-scenes photos from our shoot.

The Terrific Women are Linda and Joy (Sara Hennessey and Steph Kaliner), two feminists in 1974 who have their own public access cable program.  We wanted to keep up the crappy 70s no-budget look with questionable lighting, too many patterns, and macramé monkeys.  Oh, and the food.

Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

They’re the Terrific Women, and today they’re entertaining.

John did an amazing job finding inspiration for all these (gross) recipes, making everything, and styling the food so it looked like it came straight out of a 1970s clearance bin cookbook.

John prepping food for our shoot.

John in the studio kitchen prepping food for our shoot.

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Prepping the sandwiches for “Pineapple-Ham Spread.”

We even had a designer make custom 1970s-style labels for some of the bottles and cans.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Custom designed food labels by Sarah Wright.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Steph & Sara getting ready.

Behind-the-Scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Tristan, John & the Terrific Women.

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Our backdrop & counter setup.

Since we were doing two things at once – me shooting stills and Tristan Gough shooting video – we had to figure out the lighting.  We had to decide if we would set up both video lights for filming and strobes for still photography.  Since we weren’t going for a professional, polished look with the photos, ultimately we decided to only light for video, and I took photos behind-the-scenes with my sound blimp like on a film set.  Shooting during filming presents some challenges, but it always makes for some great natural facial expressions:

Behind-the-scenes with Terrific Women and Crustcrumbs

Cooking with Linda & Joy is always fun.

So far this week, we’ve posted recipes and videos for Mai-Tai Cocktails, Minced Clam Cheese Dip, Pineapple-Ham Spread, and Pepperoni Salad.  If you visit Crustcrumbs tomorrow, you’ll find a classic 70s dessert.  Spoilers:

What goes in here?

What goes in here?

 

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May Day Protests

by Jen May 1, 2012
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May Day Protests

Here are a few pictures from the May 1st protest in downtown Toronto.  You can view the whole set on Flickr.

Status for All

Anonymous

Anonymous

Power to the People

99%

Stop

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Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

by Jen October 22, 2011
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Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Here are some photos from the 2011 Toronto Zombie Walk.  As usual, you can see the entire set on Flickr.

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

Toronto Zombie Walk 2011

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Daily Photo – October 4th, 2011

by Jen October 4, 2011
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Taken on October 1st, 2011 at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto at Yonge & Dundas.

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Daily Photo – October 3rd, 2011

by Jen October 3, 2011
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Taken on October 1st, 2011 at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto in Nathan Philips Square.

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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011

by Jen October 3, 2011
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Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2011

Here are some pictures that I took at Nuit Blanche in Toronto on Saturday night / Sunday morning.  You can view more on Flickr.

Singing golems on Queen Street West.  This was called Angels Singing by Life of a Craphead.

Flightpath Toronto at City Hall / Nathan Philips Square.

 

99.9 Virgin Radio‘s setup near Yonge & Dundas.

Yonge & Dundas.

Paparazzi Bots in the Toronto Eaton Centre.

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Daily Photo – September 18th, 2011

by Jen September 18, 2011
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Daily Photo – September 18th, 2011

Happy 1 year wedding anniversary to Nikki and Eddy!

Taken September 18th, 2010 at the Rosedale Golf Club in Toronto.

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Daily Photo – August 30th, 2011

by Jen August 30, 2011
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A street performer stripping while riding a unicycle with a balloon on his head.  Taken at the Toronto Buskerfest 2011.  (Toronto, Canada – August 27th, 2011.)

 

 

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Daily Photo – August 29th, 2011

by Jen August 29, 2011
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Toronto, as seen from Jarvis & Adelaide.

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