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Tokion views pop-culture thru a global lens. To its readership of young, in the know tastemakers, it offers a new, exciting perspective on great talent in music, art, film & fashion. With exclusive access to the creative community, Tokion is widely recognized as the first to discover new talent.

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I read a lot of magazines.
I started when I was a nerdy wee tweener, spending my allowance on "Teen" and "YM". Rebelling against the saccharine subservience of the standard Women's Magazine, I went through a "Maxim" phase in college. My current fare is composed of art magazines (Juxtapoz, ArtForum, Flash Art), and the surprisingly large number of magazines aimed at the young vintage-wearing, d.i.y.-artist, indie-music-loving, cooler-than-thou downtowners that swarm the big cities of America and Europe (think Nylon, Paper, MetroPop).
Combining the best of both genres is Tokion, a quarterly magazine I discovered about a year and a half ago. It's sometimes incredibly hard to find here in L.A. because it sells out within a week of hitting the stands, but it's always worth the search. It probes the depths of alternative popular culture, provides insight into our society's most fertile minds, and profiles up-and-coming artists of all bents--fashion illustrators, photographers, painters, designers, graffiti artists--by allowing them to speak in their own words, without compressing their life and work into the factoids and mini-paragraphs that most magazines lob at the "average" (idiotic) reader. Tokion instead assumes that its readers are intelligent and creative people. Rather than talking down to us it meets us at our own level, and the result is a magazine well worth reading.

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Tokion destroys...

the competition. It has the interviews that Blackbook gets and the design of...well, some design magazine...I don't really read those. But really, Tokion has picked it up over the past couple years. It used to be all about skate or die, graf and j-pop (a strange combo in the first place), and now they focus on the people that matter. That's a big change if you ask me.

So here's the skinny: if you want the straight story, hit Tokion. In recent issues they've interviewed Yayoi Kusama, Samantha Morton, Gregory Crewdson, Maurizio Cattalan and Lou Reed. If that's not sticking to your guns, don't ask me what is. Cause I can't tell you.

I know the industry a tad bit, and Tokion is no run-of-the-mill magazine. It's top of the line, high quality and downright beautiful. It's a shame I know people that don't read it.

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