The Impossible Year

Tag: ravenswood

  • 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…

  • Urban Pooch, 4 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 As Chicago introduced a curfew and braced for a seemingly unending stream of protests, even our local dog daycare place boarded up.

  • Andie’s Restaurant?, 2 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 A few year back Andie’s Restaurant on Montrose closed ‘for remodels’ and never reopened. This week they put up boards to protect it from looters.

  • View from the Garage, 31 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 With everything going on in the world I decided to burn off anxious energy by spending Sunday morning cleaning off the roof of our garage and trimming back the tree as much as I can reach. I was able to shoot this photo…

  • Leah Jones, 25 May 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Leah Jones has been a friend of mine for the majority of time that I’ve lived in Chicago, and her knowledge and wisdom in the field of marketing has been incredibly inspiring. She is one of one of the smartest people I know and I’m…

  • Jess and Her Walkie-talkies, 12 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Our friend Jess came by and brought walkie-talkies so we could try out the range and possibly communicate from home to home. The advertised range was 2.5 miles. They make it about a mile. Still fun though.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Cocktail Night, 30 April 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Finally some good film! We made cocktails and called Beth Ann’s parents. I made myself Stanley Tucci’s Negroni and Beth Ann made herself something with Amarula.

  • Montrose Brown Line, 27 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) It’s strange to see the CTA virtually empty… err what you can see of it. Just take my word.