Summer isn’t just about internships and easy classes. It’s time to take advantage of just that, free TIME! I like to paint every now and then to relieve a little stress. Thought I would share my latest, an ode to the Stones. Enjoy 
Just a quickie to share two other slideshows I’ve done for the Herald. The first is from a memorial day monument dedication ceremony in Alachua back in May. I used Windows Movie Maker and a licensed song from a Grammy-award-winning gospel singer that my editor picked out.
After using Soundslides, I prefer it much more over WMM (which doesn’t lend itself well to journalism purposes), but being at a small weekly paper out in the boondocks of northern Florida, internet connections and lack of Flash capabilities made it easier to just make a .wmv.
Alas, my most recent story is indeed a Soundslide (my most journalistic yet I think!) of a historical marker unveiling in Bland, Fla. I’ve racked up a nice amount of clips too, all of which can be found with a simple search for “Mallory” in the High Springs Herald archives. I’m nice and busy, but summer’s almost over. Can you believe it?
This article came passed along from a friend. Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press gives an entertaining lesson in journalism practices. His satire stands out, but there are certainly some sad truths in what he writes.
Here is a SoundSlide I did for the High Springs Herald of the Newberry Watermelon Festival. A fun afternoon indeed.
My dad let me know about this photo slideshow from the NY Times by Micheal Kamber about the search for the three missing soldiers around Baghdad. I’d love to do this for a living, but not there. I really like community news and events like the Watermelon Fest. Kudos to the journalists who have the guts to embed themselves overseas. They’re doing things that were once unheard of in reporting the news.
Amen for the end of the semester. Summer is upon us in steaming hot Gainesville and the city is already clearing out. I’ll be sticking around with an internship at the High Springs Herald in their Web department. It’s a small town weekly with a community focus and I really can’t wait to get started. In the meantime, I submitted my final Web portfolio project for MMC4341. I also ditched the old site at my domain, mallorycolliflower.com, and replaced it with my portfolio. Long story short, I’ve been busy as usual but the summer is a welcomed change. The hot Florida humidity does a pretty good job of slowing down the pace of life.