The Impossible Year

Tag: subism

  • The WasteShed, 14 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film The WasteShed is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization here in Chicago. They collect art and school materials that would otherwise be thrown away and make them available to teachers, artists, and anyone who needs them at a low cost. After discovering their Instagram account Beth Ann placed…

  • Dr. Kruse of Northside Foot & Ankle, 13 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film So, this post is astoundingly lame (pun intended) but this is my podiatrist. I stopped by his office on Wednesday to pick up a new pair of orthodics because my insurance gives me one a year for free. He’s the third…

  • 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.

  • Mother’s Day Meals, 10 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Given that Beth Ann’s parents are in Michigan and mine are in New York, we weren’t able to really celebrate Mother’s Day in the ways we would have liked this year. As such, Beth Ann made sourdough waffles from scratch (in our Millenium Falcon wafflemaker!)…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Raphael & Chicago Comics, 7 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film This is my friend Raphael, who happens to be the manager of Chicago Comics. Chicago Comics has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic due to forced closures and the fact that Marvel and DC have *MOSTLY* frozen their release schedule for…

  • 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.

  • Lakeview Station USPS Office Mural, 5 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film My local post office in Chicago has this amazing depression era WPA mural that I always love to admire. To me it serves as an inspiration of what this country can do when we band together to take care of one…

  • May The Fourth Be With You, 4 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film Last year Beth Ann and I went to Disneyland and splurged on some custom lightsabers. This year we had a mock dual on the lawn.