Tag: impossible year

  • My Desk, 11 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Being the nerd that I am, I spent Monday re-organizing and cable managing our home office while listening to Howard Zinn’s ‘The People’s History of the United States’ on audiobook.

  • Spoken Cafe, 9 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Community is essential to me. One of the main reasons I wanted to live in Ravenswood and not downtown was because I wanted to know the local people who work in my neighborhood. Spoken is a little cafe that is a surprisingly big part of my…

  • Gidding’s Plaza – Lombard Lamp, 8 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film The Lincoln Square neighborhood is one of Chicago’s biggest German neighborhoods and tucked away in a corner of Giddings Plaza is a Lombard Lamp, which is an exact replica of ones found on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg Germany since 1869. It…

  • Raphael & Chicago Comics, 7 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film This is my friend Raphael, who happens to be the manager of Chicago Comics. Chicago Comics has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic due to forced closures and the fact that Marvel and DC have *MOSTLY* frozen their release schedule for…

  • Care Package Delivery, 6 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Beth Ann and I have started putting together care packages of art, cookies and sourdough starter, and biking to friends homes to deliver them.

  • Lakeview Station USPS Office Mural, 5 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film My local post office in Chicago has this amazing depression era WPA mural that I always love to admire. To me it serves as an inspiration of what this country can do when we band together to take care of one…

  • 100 Acre Woods Gang, 15 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Shortly after leaving my job in 2018 I went to see ‘Christopher Robin’ in theaters. I was facing such a severe case of burnout that the film resonated with me in a way that I wasn’t expecting. I then learned that…

  • The Impossible Year: Exhibition

    From January 1, 2012 to January 1, 2014 I took a single photograph a day every day with a Polaroid camera and Impossible Project instant film. I spent time documenting my friends, family and the day to day bullshit of life, from the mundane to the extraordinary. For the first — and possibly only —…

  • Weekend in CaliforniaImpossible Color Protection / Impossible Color 2.0 Pioneer Edition Spent the weekend in California for a wedding and a shoot. Took the opportunity to explore Marin County specifically the Point Reyes Lighthouse, where we went whale watching, Stinson Beach… because why not?, Muir Woods because it’s the obvious inspiration for Endor, and then…

  • New Year’s Day – THE END Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible Color Protection Rounded out midnight with Lee, Rebecca, Earl and Beth Ann. We tried ‘miracle berry’ tablets that Earl supplied. They temporarily alter your sense of taste to make sour things taste sweet and other weird changes. We ate lemon slices and they were delicious! Guinness tasted…