BK: Why Vie Trio?
Pae: It’s a pretty straightforward name. Vie is French for life and trio means three, so basically Vie Trio stands for our three lives.
BK: Tell us more about how this album began?
Parn: Last year, I was playing cello in the musical Fah Jarod Sai and Pae just came back from...
After Bakery Music was sold to Sony BMG,
I worked as a consultant at Sony for a couple of years. I wanted to produce a second album for B5, but the company turned me down. Well, they didn’t actually say no, but they kept rescheduling a meeting because of their “internal” problems...
What inspired this project?
The project arose out of my curiosity and the fact that transsexuals have become more widespread than ever in the recent years. There are between 10,000-100,000 transsexuals in Thailand. While they live and work among us and their lifestyle is mostly accepted and...
I come from where hip hop was born. I can go to Brooklyn, New York, do a show there and have the rappers there respect what I do.
I can’t even tell you when I fell in love with hip hop. It just happened. It wasn’t, “Oh, I want to wear baggy pants. I want to wear my hat to the side...
This time it’s Travis—are you looking to collaborate with anyone else in the future?
Yes, for sure. We just did something with Flo Rida for a live TV show. We don’t know what the future holds, but we love to collaborate.
What is the most challenging thing about being on tour?
I...
The Bangkok Queen Saovabha Institute and Snake Farm is home to a variety of cobras, pythons, vipers, and many more of these reptiles. Visit them between 11am-2:30pm on weekdays and watch the trained staff as they extract venom from these “misunderstood” creatures, to produce anti-venom...
A brainchild of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), Ministry of Culture’s Office of Contemporary Art and Culture and The Art Market Artists Society, the Bangkok Art Market is held in front of the highly-anticipated Bangkok Art and Culture Center (Pathumwan intersection, BTS...
Why are all your pictures taken in Isaan?
Where I come from, in Ubon, people don’t think the landscape is interesting. Me, I’ve been to Paris, America, China, Vietnam, Korea… and I felt that I should go back to my home. When I’m sleeping, I dream of this landscape where I...
My childhood dream was to be a DJ. Since I was a kid, I wanted to introduce new styles of music to other people. That may sound childish, but it still is my dream.
My family has always been in the music business. We started Channel [V] back in 1996.
Back then no one was familiar with the idea of a...
Name: Suttichart Sarapaiwanich
What inspires you? Japanese cartoons from the 80s and 90s would be the biggest influence. I also get inspiration from novels—especially the horror stories of Steven King and the kung-fu books of Kim Yong.
Creating comics is like: Running or jogging. You often...
