TheVacancy.Net Travelogue

Here are the final flyers from FM Suicide! These were made in August. Obviously, you should ignore the reference link to "myspace.com/hirelacey;" I deleted my MySpace account quite some time ago.

I am so tired of looking at my website now. It's time for some changes.

• This winter, expect a complete make-over. I usually get sick of my site design every 6 months or so, and it's been that way for the last couple of years. December will be 6 months since my last overhaul.
• I will be removing my "Portraits" slideshow. While I love to (and will still) meet people and capture their essence, I would like to try something different. I'll still do portraits, but I won't be broadcasting the portraits except in my blog and only if I really feel strongly about them.
• In lieu of a portraits page, I'll add a "graphics" page, or an "art" page, which will include things besides photography. I'll including pencil/charcoal drawings, sculpture, print designs, websites I've designed or co-designed, and other things I've made.
• The Katrina Tribute will come down. Seriously, it's been two years. People are sick of seeing it. Let us learn from it and move on. Despite what Anderson Cooper and his exploitive entourage says, New Orleans is trying to return to normalcy as much as possible.

I love photography, don't get me wrong. It is still my preferred medium of choice. However I feel I have pigeon-holed myself as a phographer and not as a creator. As I have said before, it's hard for me to think of myself as an artist when I am humbled by so many other wonderfully talented people.

"A wise man knows he knows nothing at all." --English Proverb

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Vote. It is our responsibility. In order for our chosen method of Government to survive, "We The People" MUST participate.


If "We The People" fail to exercise our right to voice our opinions, then why are we even fighting this war?

After a long day, I came home to an official-business-looking letter from Southeastern sitting on the counter.

Great, they didn't get the check for the $50 parking ticket. Fabulous. Now I have to send another one so that some unscrupulous postal worker somewhere can snatch the second one, too.

But wait--this letter wasn't from the Controller's office, or the Bursar's office...or even the We-Know-You-Steal-Splenda-From-Chik-fil-a Office.

It was from the Office of Financial Aid.

Chad was in the bathroom, brushing his teeth and joking between spits that Southeastern Officials read my blog and want to reward me for all the shameless plugs I make for Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana (Go Lions).

He was [almost] right. I was a awarded a 4-Semester scholarship.

Shut up! What did I do? Or didn't do? I know I didn't apply for one...is this a joke? Did someone nominate me? [...Chad?] Did I get it for academics? Because they believe I'll be a famous Artist?

...Did they really read my blog?

Honest...I only took two or three or fifteen Splenda packets.

Either way, I'll be sending a Thank You card and a promise that when I make my first million, I'll set up a Materials & Supplies scholarship fund at Southeastern for Visual Arts students.

And free Splenda for everyone.

Dear Models,

You may have noticed I removed my account from Model Mayhem. Sorry for the inconvenience, however I no longer wish to be a part of this community.

The likes of A.J. Clayton, C.C. Lockwood, and Ansel Adams have proved to me that great photographers don't always have to photograph scantily clad women.

This does not mean, however, that I will not do portrait sessions. I will continue to photograph people, but I am no longer interested in fueling the already-rampant scopophilia.

Thanks for your support.
Love,
Lace

Below are some photos from Jeff Mickey's Fall 2007 sculpture class. I did not include my own sculpture because--well, I have a whole website.

Jeff gave the class an assignment: use 3 to 5 80-lb bags of concrete mix to make a modular sculpture. The modules had to be somehow connected, either conceptually or physically.

If I did not include your sculpture, please e-mail a full-resolution photo to lacey.schexnayder@selu.edu and I will include yours as well.
If you would like to find out the name of a sculptor, please also contact me at that address as well. I will check with the sculptor to verify whether he/she would like to release such information.

Sometimes I feel like an artistic genius.

Most of the time I feel like I'm on the better side of mediocre.

But today, I really got a boost in my Typography class. [It's the fascinating study of how letters transform from symbols for sounds to shapes, objects, pictures...it's really interesting. They really should call the class Fontology. ]

I was encouraged to enter some art into a publication on campus called The Pick.

I was also encouraged to hang on to a piece of work until next semester for the Visual Arts Department's application for a BFA degree (right now, we offer a BA degree). We'll get the accreditation; I've got some photos of other students' works, and it's BFA-worthy. The board would be crazy not to grant us our BFA degree.

I absolutely love this school...can you tell?