Operating under the premise that curiosity killed nothing, Jerrold Litwinenko has found himself bouncing around seemingly aimlessly but certainly happily. He's left Toronto a number of times and has joyfully returned home on different occasions as a food scientist, an ESL teacher, and most recently as an art and freelance photographer. Colourful things he's seen along the way can be seen on his photoblog at Photosapience Daily.

Born in Mexico City, living in Toronto, designer, photographer, videographer, illustrator, VJ, musician wannabe, friend and many other, Carlos likes to play and experiment and hopes to grow as a creative individual and as a better human being.

Catherine has had techno-love since playing Jungle Hunt on her Commodore VIC-20, but also likes to hit the language junk pretty hard. She's happiest working on projects that let her shmoosh together multiple interests, and she really likes the word "shmoosh". Catherine supports her blogging habit by working as a fancypants freelance writer. Which is sometimes fancy, and sometimes just pants. Renting in a neighbhourhood where they'll never be able to buy, she lives in downtown Toronto with her lovely husband and their hella awesome cat.

Chandra is an arts and entertainment photographer, although she is easily distracted by other jobs and seeing the world. When she is not covering film stories for this site, Chandra is watching movies and living happily in the Annex with her pet betta fish Lonestar.

Charlotte Johnstone is a sometime writer, part-time make-up artist and full-time glutton who recently made a residential leap west from Cabbagetown to Roncesvalles. It's working out very nicely, thankyou, but she misses hearing the loud conversations that people tend to have with themselves on Parliament. She believes that every person is working on their own particular patch of esoterica and that if she can meet enough of them, eventually, something akin to a quilt of impertinent knowledge will appear when she squints.

After years living away from the city (and viciously waving the "Toronto the Bad" flag), Connie has returned to her ol' stompin' grounds in that Hollywood-esque, finding-herself way. She now calls the T-dot home again -- and is downright proud of it, too. When her bloodshot eyes aren't ogling pixels or deciphering concert poster paste-ups, she immerses herself in freelance photography and writing work, which include ongoing photo projects and previous gigs with Vancouver's BeyondRobson and CBC Radio 3

Corina came to blogTO after working in a variety of creative roles, but never specifically as a writer. She now enjoys the life of a freelance wordsmith and marketing consultant (self-contrived) in Toronto's tech/arts community. BlogTO is one of her favourite projects; here she gets to write about the things she likes in the city she loves, while collaborating with some of the most savvy bloggers in the business.

Crystal Luxmore feels silly writing a profile about herself in the third person. I spend most days freelance writing, chase producing, news writing and co-hosting for Take 5 on CIUT 89.5 FM, snapping photos, tweeting and dreaming up ideas for business empires (beaver tail wallets anyone?) that will one day let me buy this website, just because.

Currently attending his final year at Image Art's photography, Dennis has always had an adventurous spirit. At 6 years old, he began to explore Toronto without his parents knowledge. This would include TTC trips downtown and to various other places in the city. At the age of 15, he began to photograph and write down his experiences, and by 18 was backpacking to explore the world around us. Through these events, Dennis has developed a love for people and storytelling, and now is a self-proclaimed "news addicted photojournalist".

Born at St. Michael's Hospital on a humid June morning. Has never had the privilege of living in the city. Resides in a far away town known as Scarborough. Dario (pronounced dare-ee-oh) enjoys a wide array of music from electronica to 70s Spanish folk. He can be found roaming the streets of Toronto at any given moment or tapping his feet to live music at random venues. In between studying, composing music and working for Community Living Toronto, he enjoys blogging and eating until he can't breathe.

When not roaming the streets of Toronto searching for the most Gurskyesque photograph of the city, Derek anxiously contemplates finishing his dissertation. Fascinated in equal turn by the written and the visual, he has of yet refused to focus on one at the expense of the other. In a perfect world, he never will.

Devon grew up in rural Ontario, where she was thoroughly teased for enjoying exotic treats like sushi and avocado. Following her stomach's lead, she escaped to Asia, spending the next 4 years stuffing herself with fish, noodles, curries and kimchi. This cavalier attitude to food resulted in several bouts of street-food poisoning. To cure her ailing stomach and a strong case of cheese deprivation, Devon settled in Toronto, where she now safely enjoys sampling treats from across the globe. Devon will eat anything except roasted silkworm and bananas.

Emily spends most of the day drinking coffee, reading/writing blogs about celebrities and politicians (and celebrity politicians) and eating bread from the bread maker she swiped from her parents' house in Bramps . Emily is from Bramps.

Day-jobbing as a writer and web-site consultant pays the bills and when not being tragic, reading beckett, precariously dangling from a 5.10 - or trying to reverse engineer ketchup, francis tries his best not to bite the hands that feed him...and is mostly successful.

Gary has been a member and supporter of the Toronto indie music scene since the age of 13. That was a while ago. He's a songwriter, musician, producer and - believe it or not - a published MS Paint artist. He started blogging in 2004 and loves checking out all the music our fine city has to offer: dirty rock bars, pristine dance clubs, buskers, moaning drunkards on the TTC. Whatever. Bring it on!

Jen is a photographer from the East Coast who, like most photographers from the East Coast, eventually found herself living smack in the middle of downtown Toronto. She kills time by online shoe shoppin', eating cookies, and stealing folk and indie music from her coworkers iPods. At home, she constantly tempts eviction by playing the fiddle very loudly (and possibly very badly).

Jen is a fun-loving shutterbug, self-professed foodie, and raging Twitterholic hailing from Unionville. A Ryerson Journalism student, she enjoys clever puns, interrobangs, XKCD, and Reddit. She also likes going on adventures and eating at greasy spoons, especially simultaneously. Her favourite animals are dogs, tigers, hedgehogs, pandas, and elite-level ultimate Frisbee players. She reminds you to call 9-1-1 in case of emerjentse.

Operating under the premise that curiosity killed nothing, Jerrold Litwinenko has found himself bouncing around seemingly aimlessly but certainly happily. He's left Toronto a number of times and has joyfully returned home on different occasions as a food scientist, an ESL teacher, and most recently as an art and freelance photographer. Colourful things he's seen along the way can be seen on his photoblog at Photosapience Daily.

Joe grew up in the wild. Maybe it wasn't so wild, but in Caledon the mosquitoes get really bad and at night if there's one in your room you will never get to sleep. He seeks refuge in Toronto and is really stirring up trouble for the locals. You see him on the street, in the bar, in the lake, and sometimes in your house. Now, you have to see him here. Sorry.

Joshua went to school to become a biologist, but has always felt the urge to write. While working in a Chicago lab, he earned a technical communications degree, which gets put to use doing proofreading and technical editing for a pharmaceutical company. When he's not working or writing for blogTO, Joshua can be found riding his bike, cooking or checking out another cool Toronto spot. He also has a personal blog, pastabroccoli, with his wife.

Between political lobby work and fiddling with old cameras, Jonathan finds his true pleasures in the absence of life amidst the abandoned buildings and derelict tunnels of Toronto's entropic spaces. Always curious about the city he loves, Jonathan wonders where the life is which we have lost in the living. Finding the imperfect nature of perfection in this urban strata, he feels it is the questions we seek, rather than the answers.

Lauren, as the photo would suggest, has no idea how dorky she is except when she spends 8 consecutive hours playing video games and listening to video game podcasts. But being a pastry cook leaves her little time to do that, so you can usually find her covered in chocolate in a kitchen somewhere downtown. Lauren lives in close enough proximity to the St. Lawrence Market to ensure she is rarely without 16-grain bread, dried chickpeas or chestnut puree.

Lisa Pasold has been thrown off a train in Belarus, been fed the world's best pigeon pie in Marrakech, taken the Lunatic Line in Kenya, and learned to polka at Danceland. She is currently eating breakfast in Toronto. She dreams about architecture and sometimes writes about this at palmerstonboulevard.wordpress.com

Is it bad that Matthew can recite Windows error codes at will? Probably, but it's a dark art that's proved useful for this weathered tech geek on more than one occasion. A Journalism student, photographer, and devout Wikipedian, there's little other than SLR up his sleeve, and a notebook in his pocket. There'd probably be something in his pants too, if he ever bothered to wear them. Matthew's spare time is spent maintaining The Horrible Fanfare - a blog of mysticism, mystery, and that thing your wife told you to pick up at the grocers. Frozen yogurt is on sale too, she says.

Rick is a third-generation Torontonian, which everyone keeps saying is sort of weird. He grew up near the Kodak plant at Weston and Eglinton, and has worked as a photographer and writer for NOW, eye weekly, Metro, Toronto Life, the Village Voice and the New York Times, among others. He has been dragged reluctantly into marriage, fatherhood and home ownership, which have taught him that his objections were ridiculous, though he dares anyone now living to teach him how to drive a car.

Born and raised in downtown Toronto, Robin Sharp is, as the name suggests, made entirely of X-acto knife blades. Don't touch him. He studied Drama at Etobicoke School of the Arts, Film Production at York University, and now he ping-pongs between writing and directing for theatre, film, and an occasional foray into the visual arts. Everything he touches turns to excitement.

Roger Cullman is what you might call a two-way photojournalist, trained both
as a writer and photographer. He is a recent graduate of the esteemed Photojournalism program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ont., having already completed a Journalism degree from Ryerson University. Roger's work has been published in 24 Hours, Spacing, Shift, NOW Magazine and Sports Illustrated. Under the alias Wordfreak, Roger runs the weekly Scrabble in the City club at Kilgour's. You can read his blog and check out his photos at rogercullman.com.

Samantha decided early on that if she can't escape the Internet, she might as well join it and thus spends most of her time somewhere in the city with her computer and camera as she blogs, web codes, and shutterbugs (do people still say that?) away. A journalism graduate from Humber College focusing on magazine writing, web journalism and photography, she served as online editor for Gardening Life magazine and online editorial assistant for Canadian Family for two years. Currently she lets both her feet and fingers do the walking as she explores the many sights and sounds of Toronto. She enjoys long walks down Ashbridges Bay, the Annex and Queen Street West, dining on sushi at Toko Bistro and Bar, and often finds herself wandering in High Park.

Sandy Dumais is happily married - I know, weird right? She does a ton of walking in Parkdale with her husband, Sylvain, and Ernest, their black newfie lab. Other than walking around and blogging about Parkdale, they enjoy trying to quit coffee, inviting too many people to dinner, and working together on both his photos and her design.

Sarah is an Internet junkie turned writer and editor. She's also a travel-loving, potato chip sandwich eating, music and movie loving blogger who spends most of her free time outdoors, exploring the city and saying yes to pretty much anything. Oh, and she's pretty much obsessed with all things running and brunch.

Tara-Marie studied theatre for ten stubborn years before allowing herself to consider another
career path. She now shoots, writes, and designs as much as she can to afford camera equipment and knitting supplies. Really, she's just a geek who loves music and the sound of a shutter.

Tanja-Tiziana Burdi owns a major in radio production and works as a freelance photographer. See the connection? Neither does she. Currently, Tanja's looking for paid work that expands the mind or proof that it exists. In the meanwhile, she's exploring civic history at UrbanRetrospect.com and continues to publish her daily photoblog at DoubleCrossed.ca.

Tim was born in a suburb of Toronto but now lives in Leslieville - just down the street from Okay Okay Diner. The pancakes there are heavenly but he usually goes for the eggs. When not blogging or thinking about lunch he forgets to water the plants and subscribes to magazines he doesn't actually read.