The Impossible Year

Tag: photograph

  • Lego Village, 17 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Sometimes it’s nicer to go to a fantasy world.

  • Welles Park, 16 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked over to Welles Park to sit and read and took in this sunset. The silhouette hides it, but there is a crochet ‘BLM’ sign on here. You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBhgRnYDG6s/

  • Espresso Maker, 15 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I struggled today. I had a real hard time accomplishing anything aside from making coffee.  I have a deep appreciation for this machine and how I acquired it. It used to be the ActiveCampaign office machine and when they were moving offices it was going…

  • Plant Shopping, 13 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The Wasteshed was having a sidewalk sale so we went and our friend Katie met us there. After looking through the selection the three of us went across to ‘Christy Webber Farm & Garden Center’ where we picked out a number of houseplants. The staff was…

  • Molly Marshall, 12 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 June 12th is Molly Marshall’s Birthday. She likes to descibe me as “some weirdo that she met on the internet that she’s been friends with for over a decade” and while that is accurate, it doesn’t nearly do our friendship justice. Molly and both have strong…

  • Emissions Testing, 10 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 In order to get our car’s registration renewed we needed to get it emissions inspected, which was entirely shut down until recently.

  • 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…

  • Visiting Jamie, 8 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We biked up to Bowmanville to visit our friend Jamie and share cookies from a safe distance in her courtyard. Unfortunately neither of the photos I took turned out as the flash on my camera did not fire for some reason.

  • Protests in Lincoln Square, 7 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Our neighborhood had a large protest on Sunday. Beth Ann came with me and we biked circles around the perimeter. Our community is overwhelmingly white and has had, at times, problems with white nationalist graffiti. I’m proud to see so many of my…

  • Deuce’s, 5 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While huge parts of the country have erupted in protest, people in Wrigleyville are acting like everything is normal and there is no pandemic.