The Impossible Year

Tag: chicago

  • Goddamnit, 5 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Spent the 5th cleaning the house and listening to my favorite Alkaline Trio album on vinyl.

  • Fourth of July, 4 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Neither of us were in a particularly celebratory mood for the 4th of July this year but we still wanted to enjoy some grilled food so we bought some brats from Spoken Cafe and our neighbor Dan grilled them on his balcony and we…

  • Park Life Forever, 3 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I met up with Leslie and sat in Welles Park and had Taco In A Bag.

  • Brown Elephant Drop Off, 2 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We cleaned out our garage to make room for a pottery wheel and one of the things we had was A LOT of luggage. As is our norm, we took the unwanted stuff up to Brown Elephant. For those unaware, Brown Elephant is…

  • Patrick at Taco In A Bag, 1 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 ‘Taco In A Bag’ has to be one of my favorite local businesses. It’s a shop in Lincoln Square that is rife with personality, humor, and extremely creative takes on traditional fast food. The staff, head chef Patrick, especially have always…

  • BLM Boards, 29 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Saw this at the corner of Lincoln and Montrose. I’ve appreciated that as businesses chose to board up, that many have used this as an opportunity to create murals.

  • Beermiscuous Anniversary Tasting Pack, 28 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On the 28th Beermiscuous hosted a 6th Anniversary tasting for the release of ‘Biggles Seizes The Means,’ the beer who’s label I designed for them and Bold Dog Beer Company.

  • Lakefront Totem Pole, 27 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Now that the lakefront is reopened I can stop and rest at one of my favorite happy places in the city again.

  • Austin at Beermiscuous, 26 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 This is my friend Austin. He is one of the owner/operators of Beermiscuous in Lakeview. In March Beermiscuous became and employee owned co-op. To celebrate, in June they released a sixth anniversary beer in collaboration with Bold Dog Brewing and I got to design…

  • Uptown Protests, 25 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 There was a march up Broadway Avenue in opposition to Alderman Harry Osterman and Alderman James Cappleman, both of which are opposing police reforms in city council.