So most people know, Sydney woke up to an apocolyptic scene on Tuesday as a 400 km wide and 2000 km long dust cloud covered the city and produced the craziest light.
For an idea of how insane the dust storm was, check out the video below (it’s worth watching until the end).
The media and internet were full of news about waking up on Mars, Armageddon and zombie attacks.
Web genius Derek Powazek got right on it, emailing Flickr members with dust storm photos to see if he could use them in a magazine about the dust storm. So here it is on Friday and the magazine is ready - talk about the future of publishing, the dust storm isn’t even in NZ yet and there is a magazine ready for shipping.
Derek does some work with Magcloud, which is magazine publishing on demand. Those of you at Web Directions last year would have received a copy of Scroll magazine, which was created using Magcloud. It’s a brilliant idea and service, the only downside being that they don’t ship to Australia.
Derek has kindly agreed to send over a one-off bulk shipment of “Strange Light - Photos from the Great Australian Dust Storm” magazine, which I can then onward post from here in Rose Bay. Let me know if you want to order a copy, and I’ll add it to the order. Just email me at cheryl [at] moltn.com and I’ll sort the rest.
Update: I’ve just put the order in so unfortunately I can’t take any more requests. (1st October). Thanks.
Update II - I’m still getting enquiries so I’ll collect them all for another week or two and put another order in. Feel free to send requests, I’ll probably order the next batch around 18 October.
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Hi Chezza,
great work on this, and it is indeed amazing!
Just to clarify - Scroll was published using MagCloud for our international audience, but we actually did the original print run for the conference (and a limited number of extras available for purchase) traditionally with a printer.
That’s mental - first time I saw the vid. I think the cool photos were worth the dust.
The above video is from 2007
Gosh I’m doing a great job of fact checking for this post.
Who said bloggers were going to take over from journalists? :)
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