The Impossible Year

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Uptown’s Black Lives Matter Protest, 1 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Uptown, the neighborhood immediately to the east of us that we sit on the border of, is one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods, and was the site of one of the city’s largest Black Lives Matter protests yet. It has also been…

  • BLACK LIVES MATTER, 30 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Photos from Saturday’s ‘Justice for George Floyd’ protests in Chicago

  • Fried Chicken, 29 May 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I spent some time researching how to make fried chicken and put my own spin on it by combining elements from a variety of places. It turned out great. Will eventually publish the recipe.

  • Sleepy Dog, 28 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film If you leave a pile of clean laundry unattended in the house anywhere for even a moment, this little critter will find it and fall asleep in it. Guaranteed.

  • Onion Box, 27 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film A while back I came into possession of an old newspaper box for ‘The Onion.’ It has since sat in our garage waiting to be deep cleaned so it could be repurposed. On Wednesday it was a beautiful day, so I finally took it out, shop vaccumed…

  • Nintendo Bin, 26 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Spent some time on Tuesday cleaning out our closet and organized all the NES, SNES, and N64 games and accessories into one storage bin for easily access. There is a Genesis/Saturn/Dreamcast one below it as well.

  • 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…

  • Marla, 24 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film You can’t really tell because she is still quite scruffy, but this little monster got groomed by me. We’ve been seeing temperatures in the low 80s and high 70s so it was time to help her cool off.  Instead of making the common mistake I’ve seen on…