The Impossible Year

  • August 17, 2020

    Montrose and Paulina, 11 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   A day after a massive storm, the Ravenswood Elementary School had a sign up that said ‘Have a Nice Day’ while a large section of the community was still without power.

  • August 15, 2020

    Greenview Avenue, 10 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On Monday a massive derecho swept through the Chicagoland region causing tornados along the lakefront, knocking down over 7,300 trees, and leaving over 2 million people without power. We were fortunate to be mostly spared any damage (though we did lose internet) but our neighbors…

  • August 14, 2020

    Unknown, 9 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) More of the expired film in the Onestep 2. You can see the developer pods are leaking everywhere which are gumming up the rollers and marking up the film.

  • August 13, 2020

    Shoes by a Sewing Machine, 8 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) Bust out some old unlabeled Impossible experimental film from the fridge. It was less than successful.

  • August 10, 2020

    18 Coffees Presents: ‘Jojo Rabbit’ Drive In, 7 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 18 Coffees is a strategy firm that helps drive mission driven transformations at companies. It was founded by my friend Caleb Gardner and I’m honored to be counted among its members. On Friday, they put together a drive-in showing of ‘JoJo…

  • August 9, 2020

    Relaxing Outside Medvet, 6 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Every week we’ve been needing to take the dog to physical therapy appointments at MedVet to deal with her back and joint pain. The appointments last an hour and leave me or Beth Ann with time to kill waiting around to pass the time…

  • August 8, 2020

    7-Eleven Clark and Southport, 5 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The intersection of Clark and Southport is prime real estate on two busy streets, with a bus stop right next to it, and immediately adjacent to an affluent residential neighborhood. A prime location for a convenience store.  Well, over the last few years 7-Eleven…

  • August 7, 2020

    Tomato Plant, 4 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We’ve been growing a ‘war garden’ of sorts on out balcony since this all began and the real star has been our tomato plant which has taken off massively.

  • August 6, 2020

    Firecakes, 3 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann’s favorite donuts come from Firecakes and they are one of our favorite local businesses. She placed an order for pick up and I biked down to Lincoln Park to get them.

  • August 5, 2020

    Leslie and the Wheel, 2 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We are renting a pottery wheel from Lillstreet so that Beth Ann can do pottery work even though Lillstreet does not have open studio hours. As such, we’ve converted out garage to be a workspace, and Leslie came over the other night and…

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The Impossible Year

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