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Tarfumes.com - Tokion Magazine
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List Price: N/A
Our Price: $25.00
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 4 months
Manufacturer: Downtown Media Group Llc
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 12-16
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 6
Label: Downtown Media Group Llc
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Downtown Media Group Llc
Number Of Issues: 6
Publisher: Downtown Media Group Llc
Studio: Downtown Media Group Llc
Subscription Length: 365
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Tokion views pop-culture thru a global lens. To its readership of young, in the know tastemakers, it offers a new, exciting perspective on great talent in music, art, film & fashion. With exclusive access to the creative community, Tokion is widely recognized as the first to discover new talent.
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Summary: TOKION- what the #$%@?, a former lover laments
Comment: I have loved tokion ever since it was in japanese and english simultaneously, then it switched to separate English and Japanese versions and it was great. I read it off and on whenever i see a copy on the rack, and have a vast collection of past issues at home. Fast forward to September 2007: i go to pick up the latest version of Tokion and i hardly recognize it- a new glossy finish and a new font, but that's not all. What's worse is it has dropped all of its normal formatting and interview coverage and turned into a washed up mostly pictures fashion mag. DISGUSTING. all the positive reviews for this magazine are pre- glossy fashion magazine tokion. i don't know if tokion was bought out, switched editors/publishing or what but they have ruined a once progressive, informative, world wide pop culture magazine. the resulting changes are pure ****. its awful. i couldn't be more disappointed. if anyone knows what happened to this once wonderful magazine fill the rest of us in. If i had to guess, i would say they sold out to be a fashion magazine for the advertising dollars. Oh, and they have always been awful about subscriptions, i think i've tried like 3 times to get one sent to my home. Slackers work in the subscription office, maybe that's why they had to become the resulting crappy "new" magazine.
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Summary: NEVER GOT IT!!!
Comment: I only recieved 2 issue's in 6 monthes, now my subscription is over!
All the other magazine's I ordered came except this one!
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Summary: Sounds like the company sent out a memo
Comment: Sounds like the company sent out a memo to write glowing reviews about it's own product. Considering all these reviewers have no other reviews under their belt. Shhhhaaady! yea
Never read it- but I won't now
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Summary: Read this Magazine!
Comment: 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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Summary: Tokion destroys...
Comment: 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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