Uber-cool magazine Tokion has been investigating the cutting edge of creative subcultures for almost 10 years. Having started as a Japanese/English bilingual culture magazine in 1996, it now has separate editions in each language and a cult following on both sides of the Pacific.
The man behind the magazine is New York-based publisher Adam Glickman, whose latest venture is the Tokion Creativity Now conference. The ambitious project started as a two-day event in New York in 2003 and has featured big names like film director Todd Haynes and artists Matthew Barney and Richard Prince. Last year, in keeping with the Tokion's bicultural brief, Glickman brought the conference to Tokyo.
The second Creativity Now Tokyo conference saw luminaries from the creative fields assemble in Harajuku's LaForet museum for panel discussions on topics such as "Mapping the Creative Mind" and "Rebooting Tokyo Culture."