After pretty much having to delete and re-make all of my pages, I’m thinking that ShleeVincent.com is about ready to be back on go. This new theme has some pretty hefty pointers to different galleries of the mediums that I’m working with and that I’d like to be pretty prominent. Hopefully all goes as planned. Of course, it doesn’t seem to be taking too nicely to my gallery formats, so hopefully I’ll find something that will work nicely in that vein.
From this point, however, I think updates will be resuming. Hooray.
If it’s not apparent, I’m working on a new layout for this webpage. All of the content has moved, however, with a recent spell of headaches, the renovations are on hold.
All of my navigational pages can still be found to the left of this box.
Have fun looking around and hopefully everything will be in working order soon!!
Edit (7/29 9:59 p.m.):
This isn’t quite working at the moment. I’m not getting any results. If you’ve already taken the survey, I’d love if you could resubmit your answers when I find a system that works. If you haven’t please take a few minutes to fill out your responses. Thanks so much for your time.
-Shlee
Wow. It’s really been a year since I graduated college. And in this year, what have I accomplished?
Attaining a degree.
That’s pretty important and its kick-started this time frame. I can’t say I’ve ever done it before who knows if and when I’ll do it again?
Been financially independent.
Except for borrowing money to pay off my smaller loan in full, I’ve paid for all other expenses on my own – and am chipping away at the loan chunk, as well.
Was hired full-time.
Although my first “big-girl job” doesn’t require a college degree, it’s still a real-deal, full-time job with benefits.
Photographed a wedding.
My mom’s co-worker needed a cheap photographer – being new to the field, I couldn’t charge much. April was satisfied. I’m available for freelance – I’ve just got to practice my stealth ninja skills.
Made a book.
Funny that I accomplished the task of making an actual book before I could complete writing one – and I’ve been writing for years.
Shot enough photos to make a small gallery.
And now the gallery will be available for viewing at my new apartment for a small cover of $3.
Read my poetry aloud in front of strangers.
Last May, there was a memorial service who my grandfather who passed away in January. As a result, I wrote a poem, which I titled On Portraits of People (acronym from Opop, which we called him). My brother and I collaborated and performed during the memorial service.
Discovered 120 film.
With my ThankYou points from my credit card, I purchased a little plastic camera called Diana F+ which I have grown to cherish. This camera took 120 film (medium format, square film) which I had never worked with before. In the year since this discovery, I have become even more fond of this type of film than 35mm. I now see photos in square format.
I feel bad that the majority of my recent updates have not been about me or my work. That’s because I haven’t been doing a whole lot.
It’s getting so close to a year since I graduated. That’s frightening.
There are things that I probably shouldn’t be mentioning on here, but let’s just say that I’m on a quest. And it’s a difficult one.
Luckily, I’m not alone and I’m being supported. And I’ve also got a place to live after my current lease ends.
I’ve spent the last couple weekends visiting friends and family and being domestic – when I go to bed tonight it will be the end of my fantastic series of weekends off.
I think that having weekends off is a fairly realistic goal for the future.
In the meantime, I’ve been trying to do a little bit more writing. I’ve started a couple short stories. It really shows that I need to get back on track.
The Polaroid experiment thus far has been a bust, but I’m waiting on a new battery for the camera. Once I’ve got that, hopefully we’ll be on track and then there may be updates galore! I’m hoping that’s what the issue is, otherwise, I may as well be colored confused.