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...took Web entrepreneur and photography geek Derek Powazek about 24 hours to figure out a use for the incredibly strange photos of Sydney that he was seeing on Flickr. The Australian city was being blanketed by a freak dust storm that was dumping 82 tons of fine red earth from thousands of miles away every hour. Awed Sydneysiders were posting images of eerie rust-colored landmarks and scarlet skylines by the hundreds. "I wanted to put those photos where they deserved to be," Powazek says. "In print...
...letter-size magazine stock. MagCloud takes care of the rest - binding the pages, selling the finished magazine on its website and delivering each order. For this HP charges about 20 cents per page; the publisher of the magazine can add a markup to that. (See pictures of Australia's dust storms...
...they would like to be involved. They weren't offered any compensation - and only one turned him down. Powazek laid the photos out using Adobe InDesign, put together an introduction and sent it off to MagCloud. By the dawn of Sept. 25, barely 48 hours after the dust storm, Strange Light: Photos from the Great Australian Dust Storm was ready to roll off the presses. (See the top 10 magazine covers...
While not officially outside the Square, Harvard Stadium is just as foreign to most students. Get in on the action when Crimson faces Brown this Friday under the stadium lights. Dust off your college gear, Wikipedia the rules of football, and pretend for a night that Harvard is remotely like a state school...
Labor Day, celebrated in the U.S. on the first Monday of September, marked the traditional end of summer; the well-heeled vacationers would stow their summer duds and dust off their heavier, darker-colored fall clothing. "There used to be a much clearer sense of re-entry," says Steele. "You're back in the city, back at school, back doing whatever you're doing in the fall - and so you have a new wardrobe...