Tom Vater

French blog La Jupette de Jeanette offers a page on my new book Sacred Skin this week!

October 20th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, Blog, book, France, Hans Kemp, La Jupette de Jeanette, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: France, Thailand | Comments (1)

Today’s edition of Courrier International runs a great four page spread of my new book Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant.

October 6th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Courrier International, documentary, Hans Kemp, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: France, Thailand | Leave a comment

My new book, Sacred Skin, the first English language publication on Thailand´s spirit tattoos, Sak Yant, is featured in the forthcoming edition of the French Courrier International, due to hit newsstands on October 6th!

October 3rd, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Courrier International, documentary, Hans Kemp, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: France, Thailand | Leave a comment

French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on my new book, Sacred Skin on September 17th!
Metropolis will be on at 11.30pm.
The program will be repeated on September 18th at 5.45pm.
Visit the book’s official website!

September 13th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte, Asia, book, documentary, Metropolis, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, September 17th, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: France, Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment

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September 12th, 2011 | Tags: Achan Neng Onnut, Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte, Asia, Bangkok, book, documentary, Hans Kemp, James Nachtwey, Marc Eberle, Metropolis, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, TV, Visionary World, writer | Category: France, Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment

French German TV channel ARTE will be broadcasting an eight minute documentary, part of the culture magazine Metropolis, on Thailand’s sacred tattoos and on my new book, Sacred Skin on September 17th!
Exact broadcasting schedule to follow.
Visit the book’s official website!

August 29th, 2011 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, arte, culture magazine, Dokumentarfilm, Dokumentation, Fernsehmagazin, Marc Eberle, Metropolis, Sacred Skin, sacred tattoo, Sak Yant, television, Thailand, Thailands heilige Taetowierungen, Tom Vater, TV, Visionary World | Category: France, Germany, Thailand | Leave a comment

I published the following story about Provence, a wine growing region in southern France a couple of years ago. At the time of writing, I was just getting to know the protagonists of the text.  I stayed in touch with all of them. Eric Bouletin continues to grow excellent wine and Junko Takase continues [...]

April 2nd, 2011 | Tags: expatriate, Eytha Badchen, France, French, Jean Giono, Postcard from Provence, provencal, Provence, Tom Vater, tourism, Vacqueyras, Vaison-La-Romaine, wine | Category: France | Comments (6)

Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete.
Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they are [...]

February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: 21st century, Angela Merkel, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Barack Obama, capitalism, China, climate change, Colonel Gaddafi, comment, consumerism, David Cameron, Egypt, France, Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka quote, Gaddafi, gangsterism, Germany, iPAd, irony, journalism, Kafka, Lybia, Nicolas Sarkozy, opinion, political corruption, politics, revolution, Russia, sarcasm, TIME, Tom Vater, UK | Category: China, Egypt, France, Germany, UK, USA | Leave a comment

Southern Germany is conservative and a bit too far away from the real world for my liking, but while people look pretty stiff and sullen on the street, they are friendly, noticably so after a trip around Europe.
Tried to get a tram from Mannheim to Heidelberg a while back and had no change for [...]

August 29th, 2010 | Tags: ausländerfeindlich, Banlieue, Bruce Willis, Bundesbank, deportation of gypsies, Deutschland, Deutschland ausländerfeindlich, Deutschland schafft sich ab, France, friendly, German Bundesbank, German racism, Germany, Germany´s racist establishment, gypsies, Heidelberg, Judenhass, Mannheim, racism in France, racism in Germany, racisme en France, Rassismus in Deutschland, Rassismus in Frankreich, Rechtsradikale in Deutschland, right wing in Germany, Sarkozy, Sarrazin, SPD und Rassismus, Thilo Sarrazin, Tom Vater, Vorstand der Bundesbank | Category: France, Germany | Leave a comment