The Impossible Year

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  • Rayan Plaza

    Rayan Plaza

    Rayan Plaza, 27 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600  Snapped this while stopped at a light on my way back from picking up my weekly treat of comic books and pizza. The contrast of the colorful signs and Divvy bikes with the otherwise muted palette of the scene just felt interesting to me.

  • MLK Quote, 20 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 On this Inauguration Day I found myself driving past the Metro and was struck by the MLK quote that had been set on the Metro marquee “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." 

  • Snow Covered Greenview

    Snow Covered Greenview

    Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While we’ve had a few days of accumulation before, we got our first real snow storm of the season. For all the bad rap the weather in this city gets, Chicago is remarkably beautiful in the snow.

  • Work Station, 19 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Got our sewing machine cleaned off and now the table serves as a functional table for packing, shipping, cutting, or sewing.

  • Jonny Pop, 18 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film Being an adult means no one can tell you not to eat ice cream at 11pm.

  • Souvenirs, 17 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film Worked on cleaning up the office and got these three things hung: Banner from Pratt, my Max Weinberg autographed drum from ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ and a mask from ‘Sleep No More,’ an immersive theater show that probably will never be able to run again…

  • Pizza from Jimmy’s, 16 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film Stopped off at Jimmy’s Pizza Cafe in Lincoln Square briefly to pick up dinner.

  • Patience, 15 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film We are very, very fortunate to have an extremely obedient dog in Marla. Here she is with a filled food ball in front of her waiting for me to give her the okay to eat. #dog #mutt #adoptdontshop #rescuedog #shihtzu #chihuahua #rescueisthebestbreed #dog #dogstagram

  • Christmas Passed, 14 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film The decorations were packed away and put back into storage leaving out living room as onr of the few relatively uncluttered places in our home at the moment. 

  • Chicago Comics + Clark Street Looking South, 13 January 2021Polaroid OneStep 2/Polaroid Color i-Type Film  Took my weekly trip to pick up comics, and show this looking South past the store. I then dropped the phot in my bag with my books. The cold weather caused the film to discolor like that, usually I keep…