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28 April 13

Updating you with Instagram!

I think we make terrible bloggers. Last update was from March? Really?? Oh man. To make up for it, please let us update you with some posts from our Instagram! If you aren’t following us yet, please do! It’s our saving grace from our lack of updates here on the blog (which I am still quite embarrassed about, to be honest), haha. :)

Recently, we’ve been doing work with the awesome rocker chef behind popular restaurants Guevarra’s and Bistro Filipino, Chef Laudico!

A bit of prototyping for one of our clients, The Noodle Bakes! Packaging design happiness!

Trying out (then) soon-to-come flavors at BONO Artisanal Gelato over a meeting!

Trying out a new shooting style for a photo shoot! We’re beginning to see the limits of having just one light. Perhaps it’s time to upgrade our equipment?

Lunch meeting at Starbucks. :)

Finally, a complete team photo! Yaaay thanks Tricia for taking this for us! Pre-meeting photo, haha. :)

Paid a visit to Go! Salads a couple of days before their soft opening!

Attended the Go! Salads soft opening last Thursday! There was a live performance during the first part by the owner, Cibbie, along with two of his sisters, and their friend Dav. Their sound was beyond lovely! We could have listened to them play all night.

Official merch of The Noodle Bakes, haha! The owner, Sam, had her sticker at the back of her phone! So cool!

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We’ve got more projects lined up, so hopefully we get to make proper posts soon!

13 March 13

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Woot! It’s summer again, and we’re looking for interns! Apply now! :)

7 March 13

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We’re on Instagram! It’s about time, right?

Aside from posting mouth-watering food photos, we’ll also be posting behind the scenes stuff from our shoots, events that we attend, basically anything related to Tender Blender! Hurray!

Do follow us! @tenderblenderfd :)

3 February 13

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One of the things we love about our job is that we get to work with so many different kinds of people! And that doesn’t mean just our clients — a couple of weeks ago and also a few months back, we were able to work with Seabiscuit Films, a production house that makes awesome videos! We first collaborated late last year to work on a teaser video for Shawarma Bros, a new food truck business that sells super delicious shawarma rice! We were able to work again just this January on a new video for Shawarma Bros’s new product, their Chicken Naan Pockets.

Check out the amazing video shot and edited by Seabiscuit Films, with food styling by Tender Blender! Also, here are a few behind the scenes photos from our shoot day!

Our call-time was at 6:30 in the morning so we were basically fuelled by the great-tasting coffee at Rammy’s.

Seabiscuit’s Director of Photography, Aaron, had brought out a Canon 5D MkIII with a 100mm f/2.8 and I ALMOST DIED WITH ENVY alskgjalghae;gha’igha THE BOKEH IS AMAZING ON IT. But anyway, back to being somewhat composed, watching from behind the camera got us all excited to see the final output! It also burned into my brain what lens I need to get next, LOL.

It really is a whole different thing when we’re hired to do styling for video. The set turns into a beautiful mess!

Rammy, our Shawarma Bro during the day, was our gracious host (and one of our hand talents after our naan bread chef Emerson left later on in the day)! When he wasn’t our talent yet, he watched from behind the camera with the rest of us. :D

Because it was a video shoot, Nicky & Aaron did a lot of the work while we stepped in every now and then to assist with styling food. Kiks occupied himself with Marvel vs. Capcom on his iPad Mini when we had some down time! Haha :)

Dough for the naan bread rolled out! We’d need quite a few for all the takes, and then we’d need to pick the best looking ones for the final dish set up.

Kiks was Tender Blender’s star for the day, as he did most of the styling. He even worked his styling magic to get the steam at 00:27 and 00:36 in the video!

And of course, the final dish! My role in the shoot came at the end, but it was worth getting up at 5 AM! Kudos to everybody at the shoot! Our kind of porn indeed!

With that, we invite you to head on over to Cucina Andare at the Glorietta 3 Park to check out Shawarma Bros and their amazing food! Maybe even take a photo in front of their awesome food truck. :)

16 January 13

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We received a Christmas card today! Super thanks to our former intern Alex for this! :) You can never go wrong with an octopus Christmas card. Hahaha! :)