The Impossible Year

Tag: polaroid

  • Lakefront Totem Pole, 27 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Now that the lakefront is reopened I can stop and rest at one of my favorite happy places in the city again.

  • Austin at Beermiscuous, 26 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 This is my friend Austin. He is one of the owner/operators of Beermiscuous in Lakeview. In March Beermiscuous became and employee owned co-op. To celebrate, in June they released a sixth anniversary beer in collaboration with Bold Dog Brewing and I got to design…

  • Lakefront Dusk, 24 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We took a nice bike ride along the lake just after sunset.

  • Marla – Dying Spectra Light Painting, 23 June 2020Polaroid Spectra/Polaroid Color Spectra Film Polaroid’s new Spectra film has stopped working with Spectra format cameras. The film just gets stuck in the rollers and fails to eject. There are theories as to the cause of this but Polaroid has given up on it. So I’ve taken…

  • Rainy Day, 22 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The weather in Chicago has been a back and forth between muggy and storming for weeks now. It’s meant that it’s often looked beautiful outside, but terribly uncomfortable. On this particular Monday I laid on our bed and watched the storm for some time. 

  • Wicker Park, 21 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann interpreted a protest and I picked her up from it. While waiting for her to arrive I took in the sights of Wicker Park. The street art and flier postings in Wicker Park really represent the time we’re living in right now.

  • PARK CLOSED, 19 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While bars and restaurants have been able to open, Chicago’s beloved Lake Shore Trail has been closed until recently. This week it reopened for ‘Moving’ only. Something that feels completely arbitrary as it should have occurred weeks ago, and it lagging behind the reopening of businesses…

  • Hammock Chair, 18 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Since we’re spending so much time at home we purchased a hammock chair for the balcony. Beth Ann has spent an inordinate amount of time in it since then.

  • 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/