Tom Vater

I’ve been interviewed by acclaimed travel blog Where Sidewalks End, about travel, crime fiction, Sacred Skin, Burma and The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu.

May 15th, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, crime fiction, Crime Wave Press, Ian Ord, Interview, Mittie Roger, Sacred Skin, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, travel writing, Where Sidewalks End | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

Last month, we had a visit from veteran tattooist Bruce Bart and his wife Jennifer. They were on an Asian road trip and were looking for a tattoo master in Thailand. Their search, quite an adventure, eventually led them to Sacred Skin and to the house I share with my wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. This [...]

April 18th, 2013 | Tags: Ajarn Neng, Ajarn Noo, Aroon Thaewchatturat, art, Asia, Bangkok, book, Bruce Bart, culture, documentary, Florida tattoo, Hans Kemp, image, Jennifer Bart, photography, religion, Sacred Skin, sacred tattoo, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, tattooing, Thailand, Tom Vater, USA, veteran tattooist Bruce Bart, Visionary World | Category: Thailand, USA | Leave a comment

Sacred Skin receives a great review from Danny Keens, Producer of 60 Minutes, on Amazon. Wonderful!!! When I stumbled upon this print collaboration between author Tom Vater and photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat I was taken completely by surprised and totally mesmerized. You see, I’m not the sort of person who would have considered a tattoo and [...]

February 19th, 2013 | Tags: 60 Minutes, Amazon, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, book, Danny Keens, Hans Kemp, photography, producer, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Just got back from the 3rd annual reading competition that my wife, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat organizes in Banphed Village, Issan, Thailand. This year, three publishers and several donors took part. 25 students won prizes and the school library was restocked with new titles. I got to read a short story, The Monkey in a Murder [...]

February 16th, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Aroon Vater, Banphed, Education, fiction, Nym, photographer, reading competition, Sacred Skin, school, Syno Nym, Thailand, Tom Vater, writer, www.aroonthaew.com | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

While I was at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali last October, I took part in three panel discussions that have no gone online as audio files. You can listen to: Check out Forget the 60s, Writing to the Power of E and Give me the World. Other highlights include talks with Nick [...]

February 10th, 2013 | Tags: audio, Bali, discussion, Indonesia, panel, Sacred Skin, talk, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, Tom Vater, UBUD, UBUD Writers and Readers Festival | Category: Indonesia, Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment

The Orissa Post in India has rerun my very first story on Thailand’s sacred tattoos. The Illustrated Kill Convention originally ran in The Fortean Times (amazingly that story is still online but the first paragraphs are missing, eating by time or digital weasels, one assumes) in the UK in 2003 and subsequently in, dare I [...]

February 4th, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, article, Asia, Bangkok, book, feature, fhm, Maxim, photography, Sacred Skin, sacred tatoos, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, The Fortean Times, The Illustrated Kill Covention, The Orissa Post, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Taiwan’s tattoo magazine Extreme Tattoo featured an 8 page spread on Sacred Skin in its December Issue!!! The spread includes many images from the book and an interview with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat. Sacred tattoos, called sak yant in Thailand, have been around Southeast Asia for centuries and afford protection from accident, misfortune, and crime. Young [...]

February 1st, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Bangkok, book, Hans Kemp, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, South East Asia, tattoo, Thailand, Tom Vater, Visionary World, writer | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

Sacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos continues to sell well. Photographed by Aroon Thaewchatturat and written by myself, the book was originally published in July 2011. Copies of the book’s second edition, hot off the press, are out now, as Australian journalist Flip Prior noticed while out shopping in Bangkok [...]

January 22nd, 2013 | Tags: Aroon Thaewchatturat, Asia, Bangkok, book, Flip Prior, photography, review, Sacred Skin, Sacred Tattoos, Sak Yant, second edition, South East Asia, tattoo, Tom Vater, Visionary World | Category: Thailand | Leave a comment

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 [...]

December 24th, 2012 | Tags: 2013, Aroon Thaewchatturat, Burmese Light, Crime Wave Press, Hans Kemp, Sacred Skin, Season's greetings, The Cambodian Book of the Dead, The Devil's Road to Kathmandu, Tom Vater, Xmas | Category: Writer´s Corner | Leave a comment