Strange Light: Photos from the Australian Dust Storm

Derek Powazek put together a fantastic collection of images from the Australian dust storm in just 48 hours. He describes here how the magazine came to be. It’s published by the POD company MagCloud.

Here’s a cool interactive Flash preview of the finished product. The magazine has also been featured on Time’s web site, in an article which points out MagCloud’s shortcomings (no distribution, long wait times to print and ship copies). It’s an interesting look at where media’s headed. (via Jim Judd)

Like going from LP albums to jewel cases, Rolling Stone’s new smaller format just won’t have as much room for personality as the old one did.

Some of Esquire’s classic covers, from the days when magazines were big enough to hold some great art on the front.

Interesting description of a way magazines can survive in the strange new era of the internet. Basically, it’s the model I’ve been thinking of: content lives online first, and the best eventually migrates to a high-quality printed version that people pay for. (8020 Publishing produces JPG, which takes user-submitted amateur photography from its website and turns them into beautiful bi-monthly glossy magazines.)