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I wish everyone the very best for 2013. Many thanks to my friends, readers, clients, critics and detractors. 2012 was a good one, lots of adventure, some poignant moments and too much work. Next year, I hope to work less and enjoy more. No need to wish for adventures, they will come. Photograph taken in [...]
In 1998 I traveled from Kathmandu to Istanbul overland. At the time I was recording indigenous music across Asia in collaboration with The British Library’s National Sound Archive/International Music Collection. I recorded street musicians, folk musicians, religious performers and street corner drunks. I worked in Nepal, India, The Philippines, Thailand, Iran and Pakistan. In Pakistan, [...]
Happy holidays to everyone!!! This one is dedicated to all the angels in here…and everyone else really…but especially them… 2012 was a great year with too much work, the very best of times with good friends, lots of (mostly work related) travel and a master plan for the next one. It’s been a total adventure [...]
Hold your breath! Mark down the dates! Crime Wave Press will offer the high seas thriller Dead Sea by Sam Lopez for FREE as an e-book download from amazon on December 22,23 and 24! Check out this new fantastic review of the book on amazon by Sandeman: It’s been said that the start and end-points [...]
German speaking Sak Yant lovers!!!! Authors Aroon Thaewchatturat and Tom Vater are featured in a radio special on Austrian radio (ORF) on December 23rd at 10.05am, recorded at Wat Bang Phra in Thailand by veteran Austrian journalist Ernst Weber. Scroll down the page for details.
The Orissa Post, the largest English language newspaper in Orissa, India, has republished On the Tea Trail, the story of Makaibari Tea Estates near Darjeeling and the world’s most expensive cuppa.
Bangkok 101, the Thai capital’s city magazine features Sacred Skin in its December issue. Writer Tom Vater and photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat spent a year researching the history and practices behind sak yant, Thailand’s centuries old sacred tattoo tradition. The result was Sacred Skin: a 200-page book packed with over 170 colour photos and insightful text. [...]
Bangkok based photographer Michael LaPalme witnessed many of the 2011 shows of Pussy & The Learjets, Bangkok’s loudest RocknRoll band. The Learjets have been defunct for more than a year with Pussy absconding to China and the rest of the band involved in other projects. Michael also shot The Learjets in the studio. Now he’s [...]
Andy Brouwer, acclaimed Cambodian blogger plugs The Cambodian Book of the Dead this week. Read his post here.
I get to talk about the publishing business this week! Crime Wave Press is interviewed on Six Questions, a blog where editors and publishers discuss writing flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and novels. Read the interview here.