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)

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

Visited the Les Rencontres monster photo exhibition in Arles. Some 60 exhibitions show a huge variety of photography from reportage to conceptual art and everything in between.
This years highlights, for me at least, included Taryn Simon from New York who shot a serious of stunning images called The Innocents, which document the stories of individuals [...]

August 26th, 2010 | Tags: Arles, exhibition, France, I am a Cliche, Les Rencontres, Malcolm Mclaren, Marcos Lopez, MC5, Mick Jagger, Patti Smith, photographer, photography, punk rock, show, Taryn Simon, The Stooges | Category: France | Leave a comment