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Current Location
New York, New York
More about me
I was on an adventure around the world that ended up being 5 years. I lived 1.5 yrs in Beijing from June '08, 1.5 yrs in Tokyo from Sept '09, Barcelona for 3 months in summer '11, 5 months in London from August '11, NYC for 3 months, 2 month Asia trip, NYC for summer 2012, 1 year in Paris until Fall '13 (I got an artist's visa!), and now live in back in NYC. I am a freelance Illustrator working for magazines, newspapers, advertising, publishing, etc...
www.JasonRaish.com
www.JasonRaish.com
My Equipment
Up to Sept 2010 photos taken with the decent Canon Powershot SD1000, then Powershot SD780 pocket cameras. Next, a few months with the totally useless Casio Exilim EX-FS10 pocket camera. After Sept 2010 most photos taken with a Canon EOS 40D with 20-35mm f/2.8 L(both sold May '12), 50mm f/1.8, and 35mm f/2.0 prime lenses. After June 2011 most photos taken with a Canon 5D mark II and the above lenses and the crappy Nikon Coolpix S5100 pocket camera (never used now). From Dec 2011 at least half the photos taken with a 24mm f/1.4 L. From Dec 2013 a 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens and random iphone 4 photos were thrown in the mix. In July 2014 rain took the Canon 5D mk II out of the picture. From Sept 2014 I'm using the Canon 6D.
Contributors
Rough Travel History
Misadventures started exactly on June 1st, 2008:
1 year 4 months in Beijing, China 2008-09 DONE
1 year 6 months in Tokyo, Japan 2009-11 DONE
1 month in Seoul, South Korea - April 2011: DONE
3 months in Barcelona, Spain - May-August 2011 DONE
5 months in London - August-December 2011 - DONE
3 months in NYC January 2012 - DONE
3 weeks in Japan - April 2012 - DONE
1 year 4 months in Beijing, China 2008-09 DONE
1 year 6 months in Tokyo, Japan 2009-11 DONE
1 month in Seoul, South Korea - April 2011: DONE
3 months in Barcelona, Spain - May-August 2011 DONE
5 months in London - August-December 2011 - DONE
3 months in NYC January 2012 - DONE
3 weeks in Japan - April 2012 - DONE
3 weeks in Seoul, South Korea - April 2012 - DONE
2 weeks in China - May 2012 - DONE
2 weeks in Hong Kong - May 2012 - DONE
3 months for NYC summer 2012 - DONE
1 year in Paris, France - August - 2012-September 2013 DONE
Back living in NYC 2013-?
Back living in NYC 2013-?
Answers to questions people ask me
Recent Comments
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- China
- Japan
- Tokyo - Japan
- Beijing - China
- Other Places
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- Canisteo - New York
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- Kyoto - Japan
- Barcelona - Spain
- Osaka - Japan
- Washington DC
- London - UK
- UK
- hawaii
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- Madrid - Spain
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- Nagano - Japan
- Venice - Italy
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- Normandy - France
- San Francisco
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Archives
China Helpful Websites
- MISADVENTURES OF JASON: I Lived in China for 1.5 years and photographed and wrote about it all
- GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Ultra useful
- GOOGLE MAPS: Ultra Useful
- CTRIP: Cheap Flights
- ELONG: cheap flights
- CHINA MIKE: Great funny easy writing on culture, history, with guides to everything Chinese
- NIK DAUM'S BLOG: Great photos and stories, travelled much of Asia including China
- BEIJING BUS: Hard to use but useful Beijing bus routes
- TIMEOUT BEIJING: Way more useful than tokyo's
- LONELY PLANET - Thorn tree forum. Quick helpful responses. Don't be angered by the "high and mighty regulars"
- POCKET TIMETABLE: Train schedules for all of China. iphone, don't know if android also
- BAIDU MAPS: When googlemaps isn't enough
- ERIC'S BEIJING BLOG
- JANEK ZDZARSKI'S PHOTO BLOG
- CITY WEEKEND: Expat mag, pretty useful
- THE BEIJINGER: One of the Expat Mags, pretty useful, forums too
- CHINESE TOOLS: Dictionary uses Pinyin, chinese/english, etc useful stuff
Japan Helpful Websites
- NAVITIME: easiest to use of many route search sites
- GOOGLEMAPS: Most used website! directions on foot, train, bike, car
- HOT PEPPER: Restaurant/bar coupons, deals, and info (Japanese)
- TABELOG: restaurant info (Japanese, but use google translate and you're ok)
- H.I.S.: flights
- MISADVENTURES OF JASON: I lived for 1.5 years in Japan and photographed and wrote about it all
- CNNGO TOKYO: Decently useful and interesting
- JASON'S GOOGLE MAP KYOTO: restaurants, shrines, temples, other points of interest
- JASON'S GOOGLE MAP TOKYO: restaurants, bars, clubs, stores, cafes with free wireless, other interesting places that are on my list to check out
- JAPANINATOR: decade's top 50 anime list and other dorky stuff
- TIMEOUT TOKYO: Randomly updated, randomly useful
- WWWJDIC: Jim Breen's super thorough but ugly dictionary with verb conjugations and everything
- DENSHI JISHO: Dictionary, not as complete as Jim Breen's but easier to use
- GOOGLE TRANSLATE: Invaluable tool in any language
- WILLER: cheap bus tix in english
- HOTDOG: cheap bus tickets
- IACE TRAVEL: flights
- TAE KIM'S JAPANESE GRAMMAR: Ultra helpful guide to learning Japanese grammar and stuff
- JAPAN GUIDE: Ultra helpful Japan site
- SHARESE: or I found my apt share here, can't remember
- ROOMSHARE: I found my apartment share here
- METROPOLIS: Tokyo's english expat mag. Could be so much better but you have no choice
- TOKYO TIMES: Lee Chapman's Tokyo photo blog
- TAB: Art Events in Tokyo
- GAIJINPOT: Gaijinpot forums also helpful
- LONELY PLANET - Thorn tree forum. Quick helpful responses. Don't be angered by the "high and mighty regulars"
- KAKAKU - Cheapest website to buy cameras, etc, in Japanese though
Spain Helpful Websites
- LONELY PLANET - Thorn tree forum. Quick helpful responses. Don't be angered by the "high and mighty regulars"
- GOOGLEMAPS - Great Maps
- MISADVENTURESOFJASON - I lived in Barcelona for 3 months and photographed and worte about it all
- GOOGLETRANSLATE - Still decent for Spanish and Catalan
- METROPOLITAN - Slightly useful expat mag
- LOQUO - Like the Craig's list of Spain
- BUTXACA - Free or cheap events in Barcelona
- SPANISHDICT - Great dictionary and phrase resource
- EDREAMS - Find cheapest flights here then book on carrier's site
- TIMEOUT BARCELONA - Barely useful, updated like once a year
- JASON'S GOOGLEMAP BARCELONA - Here is my Barcelona map
- ELTIEMPO - Great weather site
- ARTICKET - entrance to 7 most popular museums for 25€
UK Helpful Websites
- LONLEY PLANET: Thorn Tree Forum. Quick, helpful responses. Don't be angered by the "high and mighty regulars"
- GUMTREE: they use this not craigslist
- MISADVENTURES OF JASON: I lived in London for 5 moths and photographed and wrote about it all
- JASON'S GOOGLE MAP LONDON: my personal map of food, drink, nightlight, etc...
- GOOGLE MAPS: Ultra Useful
- TIMEOUT LONDON: decently updated
- TFL: tube and bus info/maps/service changes
- BBC WEATHER
New York City Helpful Websites
- HOPSTOP: Directions
- PADMAPPER: Awesome apartment finding site combining craigslist + more with googlemaps!
- CRAIGSLIST: find used stuff, apartment shares, etc...
- TIMEOUT NYC: updated all the time
- GOOGLEMAPS: Most used website!
- JASON'S GOOGLE MAP NYC: my personal map of food, drink, entertainment, etc...
- MISADVENTURES OF JASON: I lived for a lot of my life and photographed and wrote about some of it
France Helpful Websites
- COLLINS FRENCH ENGLISH DICTIONARY: best dictionary I could find so far. has examples and verb tables
- 10 DAYS IN PARIS: These guys know what they're talking about. nightlife stuff, food and more
- JASON'S GOOGLEMAP PARIS: my personal map of food, drink, entertainment, etc...
- BLOG YANIDEL: street photography in Paris
- LE BON COIN: they use this instead of craigslist
- RATP: transit directions for Paris metro
- GOOGLE MAPS: Most used website, but no transit directions
- GOOGLE TRANSLATE: translate french
- TIMEOUT PARIS: events, listings, etc
- METEO PARIS: Weather, which is impossible to predict here
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