That’s a photo of Lucas Badtke-Berkow taken the other week just before his breakfast. Lucas runs Knee High Media with his wife, Kaori, out of a wooden prewar house in Tokyo. He is the original creator of Planted and Tokion Magazine (before it was onsold many times and eventually became not very good). Tokion was monumentally significant to me in New Zealand, it helped in positioning Tokyo as a, if not the, relevant global city. That was in the late 90’s. Tokyo’s youth culture has changed a lot since then – currently floating in a state of confused inertia following on from a hyperbole laden acceleration into the modern cultural melee. Lucas also changed too, he got older, got humbler, and got more restrained and rigorous in making magazines. He just relaunched PaperSky Magazine tonight at the Now Idea Gallery. PaperSky is one of Japans first contemporary travel magazines, but it’s also just a collection of things Lucas believes in and enjoys, which keeps it honest and always inquisitive. I think it’s also the only travel magazine in the world to use geometric savant Buckminster-Fuller’s Dymaxion map, and possibly the only travel magazine to feature a short horror story.