The Impossible Year

Tag: impossible project

  • Marla, 17 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) This is Marla our lovely little mutt with her own Instagram. Due to the lockdown we’re unable to get her groomed, which you can see she is desperately in need of. She’s loving having us both around full time.

  • Wrigley Field / Lakeview Pantry, 16 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Today the Chicago Cubs announced they will convert Wrigley Field to serve as a packaging and distribution for Lakeview Pantry to help provide nutrition assistance to Chicagoans in need during the pandemic. The mayor held her daily press conference from outside the…

  • USPS, 14 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) This week I made There are few more essential parts of our system than the USPS. The fact that there is discussion of it becoming insolvent during the pandemic is heartbreaking to me. Today I mailed out over 60 handwritten postcards to members…

  • Angela aka #StoriesFromSixFeet, 13 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Today, I had the privilege of meeting (from a safe distance, while wearing PPE) Angela Conners Treimer who is conducting a portrait project visiting people and photographing them, from a distance, during the pandemic to share their stories. Follow her project here: https://www.instagram.com/StoriesFromSixFeet/

  • Easter Morning Line at Lost Larson, 12 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) We placed a pick up order from Lost Larson so we’d have something special to enjoy on this beautiful Easter morning. I biked up and soon found myself in a self organizing social distancing line. It’s encouraging to see people…

  • A Clean Garage, 11 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) So, today’s photo really doesn’t do justice to the work that was accomplished, but I vacuumed out our car, reorganized our portion of the shared garage and then swept out the whole thing. It was some great cardio work and really…

  • Lady Gregory’s, 10 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Beth Ann wanted fish and chips for Good Friday, so I placed a pick up order at Lady Gregory’s in Andersonville and biked up there. I have to say I was extremely impressed by how organized they were and prepared for this…

  • Balcony Ballet, 9 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) My wife has been keeping fit and passing the time by dressing up and doing ballet on our balcony while listening to ‘Jagged Little Pill’ the Alanis Morissette musical.

  • Passover 2020, 8 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Every year our friends Lee and Rebecca host a Passover seder. Although not Jewish, we love celebrations of community and friendship, so we look forward to it every year. This year we joined in via Zoom and read the Haggadah from an…

  • Window Silhouettes, 6 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) More dreamlike expired film images. This time featuring our octopus candelabra and panther sculpture sitting in our front window.