About

Welcome to Long Shot Magazine, a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media's old limits. As the name suggests, we write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.

Here's how it works: After unveiling a theme you have 24 hours to produce and submit your work. We take the next 24 to snip, mash and gild it. The end result is a shiny website and a beautiful glossy paper magazine, delivered right to your old-fashioned mailbox.

For Issue Zero we were lucky enough to collaborate with writers and artists from Rolling Stone, Wired, Dwell, Gizmodo, GOOD, Lapham's Quarterly, HiLoBrow, Fray, Paleofuture, and The Rumpus. We promised it would be fun, and it was. No long commitments. No pitches. No grinding editing process. The community makes good stuff fast; we publish it with other good stuff.

We've been inspired by a range of other projects: Strange Light, Pop Up Magazine, Ash Cloud Tales, and The Whole Earth Catalog. But really, it is the existence of the tools themselves that have invaded our dreams.

Editors

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Heather Champ

Formerly Director of Community at Flickr, Heather has joined with her husband Derek Powazek to create Fertile Medium, an online community consultancy. She never leaves home without a camera or three.

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Dylan Fareed

Dylan Fareed lives in San Francisco, California. He builds software and produces print editions.

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Mathew Honan

Mat Honan is a San Francisco-based freelance writer and a contributing editor to WIRED magazine. He's the creator of Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, and makes damn good coffee.

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Alexis Madrigal

Alexis Madrigal just finished a book about the surprisingly long (and strange) history of green technology. It took him an unsurprisingly long time to write and it's about damn time that he got to do something in just two days. He's a staff writer at Wired.com.

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Derek Powazek

Derek Powazek got his first computer to work on his college newspaper. Twenty years later, he's still at it. Now he's the editor of Fray, cofounder of Fertile Medium, and works on HP's MagCloud.

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Sarah Rich

Sarah is a writer, editor and event curator. Earlier this year she launched The Foodprint Project. Previously she was a senior editor at Dwell, co-author of the Worldchanging book, editor at Inhabitat and co-founder of Civil Eats. In between, she cooks.