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I've been away from LJ for a while so i figure i'll do a quick update the best way i know how.

PS: Sorry for the long post.


Took head shots of my friend Danielle


Halloween happened. It was awesome fun. I learned that Japanese business men will stair at anything in a dress. even if it's me.


watched pro wrestling by surprise in Triangle park


Had a birthday *32* and got the most amazing shoes from my girlfriend Miho. She's awesome.


Had a photo-day with Tenille in Shinsekai


Discovered that christmas decorations are already up in the namba shotengai


When i went to Nagoya with Miho, Kishen and yayoi i dropped my camera in the mall


Took some of my students to the aquarium


Kishen Jumped


Saw 2012 in my favroite mall "namba parks"


I also saw the most amazing photo show.
the world press photo contest winners. Truely Inspiring! Check it out here The gallery was in Kyoto right when the leaves started changing colours. very pretty.

And on closing notes. Does anyone know of any good photo contests that i can enter. I'm feeling inspired.

tired, work to do, slept an average 2-4 hours a nigh in shanghai cause there was so much to do... i do not recommend this. sleep i discovered is pretty important. so in short i'm pretty tied. i took over 800 photos and over 100 videos. i haven't touched the video yet but most the photos are up so i'll let them do the talking for me right now





This is the bathroom in the Jin Mao Tower From here you can see this view

and this inside the building


The food was great...


the buildings tall



and many,


and the entertainment was entertaining


Over all the city was HUGE, developing, exciting and 3 days is not enough to see nore one blog post enough to do it justice.

as always the set can be seen here

( Big picture behind cut: click to see )

saw a really cool festival in Kishiwada Yesterday. The closest thing i can discribe it as it like running with the bulls but with giant shrines pulled by hundreds of people through the narrow streets of an otherwise sleepy town called Kishiwada.

While wondering around (Miho and I)and avoiding being hit by passing shrines we came across one home base to one of the shrines and this old man trying to chat us up in his best broken english, adding "Happy" to everything. he was awesome forcing food and expensive sake upon us. When their shrine pulled in it was like instant party. it takes 600 people about to put everything together and run the show for one shrine. Yes this shrines cause a lot of property damage but damned if it doesn't bring a community together young and old.



More photos will be up as soon as i can. really busy today getting ready for my Shanghai trip tomorrow.

for every time you change clothes.

i have a new toy! the Nikon D300s. 12 megapixel of awesome at 7 frames a second and HD video. i'm as excited as the kid who god a Nintendo 64 for Christmas.



and now that that is over here's some tests with the new camera:P

It does video as seen here. Taken with my awesome 105mm macro lense



And here's a shot of my bike that i've been meaning to take for a while now.



Yeah i'm pretty stoked. i can do so much more with this camera and it's been about time as my other camera is on it's last leg. The D70 was a good great camera but it's time to move on and move on i will.

Next it's the 10-24mm wide angle zoom lense:P

Long time i know. It's been 2 weeks back in japan. what a weird feeling to come home from home. Or even just as weird getting culture shock in your home country. Landing in canada felt kind of like how a sailor must feel when he sets foot on land after being at sea for months on end. Feels like the ground is moving under you feet and it's hard to catch your balance.

I'm sorry i didn't get to see everyone when i was there. I feel like an asshole and that i'm gona have to make it up to everyone when i come back again. And again will be a lot sooner i think. I have the feeling that i finally need to move back. or at least stop teaching English. I love japan but the only future i can possible see in japan is if i open up my own language school. And canada offers well i can get paid for photography in canada. sooner or later.

that and speaking in English with out having to hold back felt kind of nice as well. There's a lot of things i still have to work out. I find the more adult you become the more adult problems you have to deal with. who'd have thunk?

Anyways while in canada I ended up shooting my friend Jen. She was one of my first models when i picked up my Nikon D70 and with the very same camera we tried shooting again in downtown. I'd like to think that these ones are better then the ones i did 5 years ago. but i'll let you guys be the judge.

anyone remember this song as a child?

Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Little dirty birdy feet.
French fried eyeballs
Swimming in a bowl of blood
And I forgot my spoon!

(different voice--"but I brought my straw")

Just thinking of songs to teach my kids

I don't know, I haven't had to really Write anything in english in a very long time. what do you think?

Paul Hillier is a photographer, designer, illustrator, teacher, Takoyaki lover and all around nice guy. After Graduating from Sheridan College in 2000 he worked As a corporate designer and freelance illustrator for a few years before luck picked up his life and dropped it in the middle of Japan where they actually let him teach Kindergarten kids Emgrish English. When not photographing everything under the visible electromagnetic spectrum he can be found embarrassing himself and the Japanese language at his local Izakaya.

This is for the Toronto R rated Gallery happening in Sept.

Why is it that it's always the Dumb people who try to do BIG things and all the smart people are happy to do small things?

random quote of the day.

PS: less this a week until Canada!

the Russians sent a tank to the moon!



this is how you answer fox

turned my one room apartment in to a studio... what ever could i be shooting.

why? cause i haven't posted many photos in the last little bit.


at a karate competition for my girlfriends nephew


girlfriend plus prime lens


the coolest mall in town


this was actually taken at my friends wedding. He had Carabana dancers dance at his wedding. How awesome is he!


Just some kids jumping over a creek at a park

and this weekend i'm going to be taking some really cool photos with lighting equipment and everything. AND, they won't be work safe:P

ladies and Gents. it's official.

I arrive at lester B pearson (YZZ) Terminal 1 at 23:59 Aug. 1 2009 Saturday

and i leave from the same at 7:00 14 Aug. 2009 Friday

Let the games begin!

been seeing a few movies lately. saw Transformers last week and that was.. well you guys have all seen it by now so i'll let that one slide.

However Tonight i saw the new Evangelion flick and WOW. SOOOOO PRETTY!!! For those of you who don't' know Evangelion is an animated series from japan that pretty much defined the Anime Boom in the 90's up until now 26 episode tv series followed up by a movie. it was violent, Epic and Emotional, and just about completely incomprehensible. I loved it. I remember lending the whole seires to Eric back in college just to have him call me up at 7 in the morning shouting in the phone "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!!?"

Anyways fast forward to now. Evangelion is a cash cow that makes money on anything it's stamped on and the orginal director now has the time and money to pull a Gorge Lucus and remake the whole series in his "true" vision and at first i was like, Yeah okay what ever. But as it turns out this was really a good idea.

The first of 4 movies came out 2 years ago and it was awesome! its like all the best parts of what you remember and turning the volume to 11 while taking crack, cocaine and speed all at the same time! Add in a little bit of acid for a few WTF moments and that's pretty much evangelion 2.0

PS: for those of you who want to wait until a subtitled version comes out. I understoon maybe about 30$ of what they said in the movie including the horrible attempt at english. My friend saw it with me and he understands NO Japanese at all. By the end of the movie we both understood exactly the same thing.

PPS: this one really starts to deviate from the original.