PechaKucha: Creative Minds do Durham

By Carlee Mallard, on July 9th, 2010%

It’s already been three weeks since our last PechaKucha Night. Since we’ve already made a lot of headway getting the next set of speakers together for the September event at SPARKcon it feels more like months ago, though!

I wanted to take a moment to relive and reflect on that night.

It was such a great event though that I can still feel the energy in the room. I remember the smiles as guests, organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and even curious passerbys walked into Relevance’s snazzy loft office space to grab some wine or beer, Mediterranean appetizers, . . . → Read More: PechaKucha: Creative Minds do Durham

3 Reasons To Work For Free

By Carlee Mallard, on April 20th, 2010%

With all this talk about the legality of unpaid internships, I started wondering where unpaid work (not specified as an internship) would fall in this argument. Where do you draw the line between doing work for free and for a fee?

Otherwise You Have to Pay Someone Else

Perhaps we draw the line between work that benefits us as individuals directly as opposed to benefiting another person. For example, most of us clean our homes, cook our own food, plant gardens, write our own resumes, do our taxes (arguably beneficial), raise our own children, and paint our own toes; . . . → Read More: 3 Reasons To Work For Free

What Is “interesting” Anyways? College Was.

By Carlee Mallard, on February 16th, 2010%

I’m three years out of college now. I find myself looking back at my life and the former college-lives of others around me and can’t help but feel like most of us were much more interesting people in college.

I look back at pictures from college:

Black & white shots with my film SLR in Pittsburgh Strangers I met in Rome while studying abroad in Florence Me with my Swiss foreign exchange student waiting in line to get into a concert Fashion shots of aspiring models printed in my college fashion magazine My family and me covered in sulfur . . . → Read More: What Is “interesting” Anyways? College Was.

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