The Impossible Year

Tag: chicago

  • Cafe Tola, 3 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Cafe Tola is a small coffee and empanda shop on Southport Avenue that has expanded over the years into a chain of stores all over Chicago. This one however, is near and dear to my heart. In light of everything going on they’ve boarded up…

  • Andie’s Restaurant?, 2 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A few year back Andie’s Restaurant on Montrose closed ‘for remodels’ and never reopened. This week they put up boards to protect it from looters.

  • Uptown’s Black Lives Matter Protest, 1 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Uptown, the neighborhood immediately to the east of us that we sit on the border of, is one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, and was the site of one of the city’s largest Black Lives Matter protests yet. It has also been…

  • View from the Garage, 31 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 With everything going on in the world I decided to burn off anxious energy by spending Sunday morning cleaning off the roof of our garage and trimming back the tree as much as I can reach. I was able to shoot this photo…

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER, 30 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Photos from Saturday’s ‘Justice for George Floyd’ protests in Chicago

  • Fried Chicken, 29 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent some time researching how to make fried chicken and put my own spin on it by combining elements from a variety of places. It turned out great. Will eventually publish the recipe.

  • Sleepy Dog, 28 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film If you leave a pile of clean laundry unattended in the house anywhere for even a moment, this little critter will find it and fall asleep in it. Guaranteed.

  • Onion Box, 27 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film A while back I came into possession of an old newspaper box for ‘The Onion.’ It has since sat in our garage waiting to be deep cleaned so it could be repurposed. On Wednesday it was a beautiful day, so I finally took it out, shop vaccumed…

  • Nintendo Bin, 26 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Spent some time on Tuesday cleaning out our closet and organized all the NES, SNES, and N64 games and accessories into one storage bin for easily access. There is a Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast one below it as well.

  • Leah Jones, 25 May 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Leah Jones has been a friend of mine for the majority of time that I’ve lived in Chicago, and her knowledge and wisdom in the field of marketing has been incredibly inspiring. She is one of one of the smartest people I know and I’m…