Friday, March 5th, 2010
Jules Power has crazy curly red hair, often wears bright colours with layers of various patterns over top and is often smiling wide, looking cute as a bright button. She likes to call me lady, is overjoyed at my use of the word "rad" and I think we are both grateful the universe has pulled us together.

She is an incredible designer whom I have had the privilege of getting to know and work with, leading up to her show at Toronto Fashion Week. We shot this image to submit for her bio photograph along with a lookbook of all her current designs that will be on the runway on March 29th. I will share some images closer to.


Thursday, March 4th, 2010
This February I had the chance to work with the lovely folks at CTV on a commercial for Doritos. The images are meant to read like a story through a photo album, so we were working with some amazing character actors for the day. For them to really get into it, they had to play the part. This is the disgruntled director who apparently had enough of me ;)


Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
(Text Message Conversation)
Tyler: A frickin Juno nomination!!! Congrats!!!
Me: Wrong Person.

Horray for Wednesday morning surprises. Congratulations to my partners in crime as well as all the other nominees.

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Outtake - Adam Giambrone, December 2009.


Monday, March 1st, 2010
Happy March.

This month has been a busy one with FASHION magazine. Here are a few images from the April issue.

Editors Portrait


Test Drive, Amy Verner


Here is an outtake from the shoot that I also liked. This was moments before that pastry plummeted to its death.


Shop Profile, Danielle Loftus, Jewelry buyer for Holt Renfrew.




Moi.

Monday, February 1st, 2010
Editors Portrait, March issue of FASHION magazine.


Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday morning photoshoot with the incredible, Ohbijou.

Jenny and Dignan, Ladies in waiting.


Saturday, January 30th, 2009
Before a shoot, I often get to read the copy ahead of time to get a sense of the person or tone of the article. I like knowing a bit about the subject beforehand, as it often helps me with the direction. I have to admit that after I read the copy for this shoot, I was a bit terrified. The first line depicts "Claudio Aprile is fanatical about germs and hygiene. He hates shaking hands, which all of his cooks know never to try with him." The rest of the article chronicles him in and around the restaurant painting him as a bit of a tyrant, swearing, telling off people etc. I was partially amused until I remember I had to go and work with this man. The entire cab ride to Colborne Lane I kept repeating in my head "Don't try to shake his hand, don't try to shake his hand.."

Walking into the restaurant, I put my stuff down in the most careful manner (I was so worried about doing something wrong) as one of the hosts went to go get Claudio. I put my hands in my coat pockets and kept them glued there, for fear of throwing them at him the second he walked into the room. The moment Claudio entered the dining room he had a huge smile on his face and extended his arm out to me, my brain confused and my reflexes very slow, I extended my hand to him. We exchanged a pretty solid handshake then and another one as I left the restaurant. Either the article over exaggerates, he has changed his ways since it was written or he just really likes me. I am going to go with the latter.

There is a difference between being an asshole and just telling it like it is while manning your craft, which I totally appreciate. Plus the guy got fired from his first job when he was 14 for putting five times the amount of jelly into the donuts. How cool is that? I went into the shoot slightly frightened and left with a bit of a crush. Lesson learned. Sometimes you can't read TOO much into things.

*Please excuse the scan



Friday, January 29th, 2010
This guy has been taking a lot of flack, so I am just gonna leave it alone..

Adam Giambrone, Toronto Life.

*Please excuse the scans.

Thursday, January 28th, 2010
In December, my friend Hannah came for a quick visit to Toronto to film her music video for her song "Thick Skin"

This song is so good it got director Sean Wainsteim out of retirement and Hannah completely naked.

This gal is seriously the coolest and most collected person I know. The crew consisted of about 20 guys but we figured she was probably making them feel more uncomfortable then they were making her. In between takes, Hannah would sit under a heat lamp, covered in mud while wearing a pink fuzzy housecoat.

Would you have the guts to do this? My head is forever bowed to this brave girl. I'm pretty sure once you do this, you can do anything.
























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