The First Bangkok Literary Festival – Impressions by Black
The first Bangkok Literary Festival at the Neilson Hays Library on May 22nd. Impressions by Black (Saksiri Hipfotobyblackcat). Review of the Literary Festival in The Nation newspaper.
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Archive for May, 2011
Tom Vater talks Sacred Skin at the Bangkok Literary Festival on YouTube!
Publisher Visionary World have released a short promo clip for Sacred Skin – Thailand´s Spirit Tattoos, featuring a recent talk of mine at Bangkok´s first literary festival, organised by the Neilson Hays Library on May 22nd. The clip, also featuring a few pages from our forthcoming book, can now be seen on YouTube!
Tom Vater at the first Bangkok Literary Festival
Many thanks to all those who could attend my talk ´From Rough Guides to Sacred Skin`at the very first Bangkok Literary Festival at the Nelson Hays Library. I really enjoyed talking about the life of a freelance writer in a quickly changing and often brutally competitive and partially collapsing media landscape, trying to explain what [...]
Tom Vater at the first Bangkok Literary Festival – May 22nd, 2011, 6pm!
I will be giving a talk at the Nelson Hays Library on Surawong Road in Bangkok, as part of the first Bangkok Literary Festival on May 22nd, 2011. From Rough Guides to Sacred Tattoos – The changing career of a travel writer in Southeast Asia will focus on how my job has changed over the [...]
Lonely Planet no longer relevant? Find out at The Space, Bangkok, May 24th.
The end of the backpacker generation? Lonely Planet finally orbited into irrelevance? China overrun by western hippies? And is Chris Taylor´s new novel Harvest Season a worthy follow-up to Alex Garland´s The Beach? Find out on Tuesday, May 24th, when I will be grilling author Chris Taylor on his recently published novel, at The Space [...]
(Deutsch) Globetrotter Magazin verleiht Preis für Reisebuch des Jahres Preis an Werbefotokatalog
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Sacred Skin – Photo Spread and Review in TIME Magazine!
“….Thai photographer Aroon’s portraits record (sak yant) in hypnotic detail….stunning photos and exuberant writing…” Read Andrew Marshall‘s excellent review Luck of the Draw – A Tribute to Thailand’s Sacred Tattoos, of my new book, Sacred Skin (with Aroon Thaewchatturat) in next week’s edition of TIME Magazine (Asia and South Pacific Editions) or on the TIME [...]
“…stunning photos and exuberant writing…” Tom Vater’s Sacred Skin reviewed in TIME
Sacred Skin – Thailand’s Spirit Tattoos, my new book with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat, has been reviewed by Andrew Marshall in TIME Magazine. Marshall offers an excellent summary of the Sak Yant (sacred tattoo) tradition in Thailand today and describes the book as containing “stunning photos and exuberant writing”. Read the full TIME review here!
More great Rock’n'Roll from Thailand!
Thailand’s premier Rock’n’Roll band Pussy & The Learjets dish up their first promo video, a time lapse artifact, shot and edited by Austrian video director Willy Wysoudil aka Wysforce. Wysoudil produced this ripping timelapse video of Bangkok´s noisiest Rock’n’Roll band performing Nothing Can Bring Me Down, the forthcoming Learjets vinyl single, out in May on [...]
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