Hamming it Up for the Camera: Our First Bacon-Inspired Photo Shoot

On Sunday, Febuary 1, 2010 A. & I participated in a photo shoot for up-and-coming stylist-cum-photographer-cum-artist Jessica Upton Crowe. Jesse has recently gotten into photography, has purchased a Canon 30D & has been using it as of late to capture photographs of her friends “doing ordinary things with extraordinary hair” for her portfolio and her blog. As a stylist at the wildly successful Dundas West salon The Grateful Head, Jesse has been cutting my hair for the year & a half that I’ve lived in Toronto. It should be of note that we met (and fell in love) over a couple too many bottles of Babyduck at a party four days into my arrival in the big city. When Jesse asked me to be her latest subject for a photoshoot, with hair and photography done to be done entirely by herself, I jumped at the chance and said “yes”.

Jesse arrived shortly after noon, toting a set of hot rollers, perm rods, blow dryers and her shiba inu Takara. After setting my hair in perm rods, she got to work on A.’s gigantic mass of brunette glory into hot rollers. She photographed us doing what we do best(and what we would normally be doing on a Sunday morning): cooking bacon. Along with the half lb of double-smoked bacon, out came the lard, the flour, the sugar, the salt; A. made a batch of her famous pastry dough.

As to not detract from the epic-osity (is that a word?) that was our hair, I wore a simple American Apparel wide-necked shirt. As usual, A. was wearing something vintage right down to an apron from my own secondhand collection. To see more photos, including one featuring my leopard print & lacy underwear, check out Jesse’s blog at www.struttersandhead.blogspot.com. It is with deep pains of anguish that I have to announce that my beautiful stove, as pictured above, met its demise with a junkyard on the weekend. Fortunately, Jesse was able to capture it, in addition to us, in all of its glory before its deathbed was met. RIP.

Note: All pictures are courtesy of Jesse Crowe, and if for some bizarre reason they end up elsewhere on the internet, please grace her with a photo credit. She’s also taking new clients, so hit me up if you want an awesome haircut!