The Impossible Year

Tag: north center

  • Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible.  I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…

  • Christmas Trees, 21 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Every year this little shop is set up by the Brown Line selling trees and wreaths. A semblance of normalcy.

  • Montrose Brown Line, 6 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   I walk to the Brown line almost every morning to get my coffee and breakfast from Spoken, and yet I can’t remember the last time I rode the CTA. It’s truly surreal. I miss it like I miss a friend. Something I’d never…

  • Jess and Gabe, 10 October 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Our dear friends Jess and Gabe got married and had a small, socially distanced, gathering in Welles Park to celebrate after the fact.

  • Leland Slow Street, 21 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Chicago has converted several residential streets throughout the city to ‘slow streets’ to allow neighbors to work out, play or socialize safely. 

  • Night Tennis, 28 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On my evening ride I encountered people playing tennis in Horner Park. There was something really beautiful about watching just shapes in the dark under a bright glare.

  • Alleyway, 23 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We went to a friend’s home to watch a movie on a projector in their back yard and something about this alleyway and the lone man shooting hoops really resonated with me. Growing up in New York scenes like this are few and far between. While…

  • North to Ravenswood, 9 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent Tuesday biking around listening to ‘Road to the Skeleton Coast’ with Brendan Kelly, as he explains the orgins of The Lawrence Arms and how deeply tied it is to Chicago’s punk movement, and influenced by inequity. Something about this empty lot alongside a…

  • 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…

  • In Celebration of Matt Ryd Polaroid SLR 680SE / Impossible PX-680 Color Protection On Monday the music scene came together again to remember our dearly departed Matt Ryd and raise money for NEDA and ANAD. I emceed the event that included such great acts as Common Shiner, Cobalt & The Hired Guns, Greg Combs, Jess Godwin,…