The Impossible Year

Tag: subism

  • Porch Productivity, 25 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Beth Ann has been taking her laptop outside and working on projects outside while the weather is nice.

  • Dog Bed, 24 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible Pioneer film Color Gen 2 (Expired)   Another film fail.

  • Alex Palermo, 23 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Alex is a busy and creative person. They are the bass player in the band ‘Typesetter,’ a bartender at GMan Tavern, and now they are making and selling their own vegan meats. I’m not vegan but having seen photos of these online I placed an…

  • Beer Fridge, 22 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible Pioneer film Color Gen 2 (Expired)   Popped open another old film pack to find it no longer working.

  • 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. 

  • Montrose and Ashland, 20 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Been trying more of these night shots. I set this one up and deliberately snapped it as a car sped by. Need to work on better framing to avoiding lens flares more though.

  • Hexa Air Filter Mask, 18 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Several years ago, in the pre-pandemic days, I ordered a custom designed and engineered air filter mask on Kickstarter, thinking it might be useful for cycling downtown to work so I’m not breathing in car exhaust fumes constantly. As with many Kickstarter…

  • Wrigley Field Marquee, 17 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   Wrigleyville was eerie quiet while a Cardinals home game took place without fans to watch it. Truly surreal.

  • Welles Park, 16 August 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600   We cycled up to Welles Park and had a socially distanced lunch with Katie in the shade.

  • Figure Model, 15 August 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Impossible ? (Expired) Hopefully the last of this series as this film has been finished, and now i need to clean the camera from all the leaks it created. However this image is perhaps the clearest visible one yet showing the wooden drawing manikin that stands on my desk.