Patrick Pittman

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Dili, Timor Leste

Hi, I’m Patrick. I talk to people, about all kinds of things, in all kinds of places. I particularly like to talk to people out at the edges, where others aren’t always looking. I help others understand and talk to people too.

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148: Go through life being strong

Calming piano in the polycrisis, things we've been making, resisting financialized platforms, lovely cat food labels, and: did we learn anything?

Buckslip

Buckslipstarted life as a regular, pretty simple email. It’s evolved into a more thorough, kind of very personal publication, in which a small gang of us wander the landscape that we’re all living through together, and weave a few sensemaking threads from what we find. Interviews, analysis, digressions, anxiety.

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Some particular good stuff

Documentary

May Flowers

“Maybe this May will be the last of the bad months before things start to get better.” May Flowers captures one month in the life of Toronto during pandemic times, just as the city is about to emerge from a period of maddening isolation—and one of the longest emergency lockdowns in the world. A feature length documentary, co-directed by me and Chris Frey.

Arcade
Article2024

A Perception of Misbehaviour—the Legacy of Op Art

Reconsidering the legacy of a much maligned moment in contemporary art within a sixty-year trajectory of digital and new media art making.

The Alpine Review
Article2016

On the Edge, Calling Back

I visited with Barry Lopez, one of the great environmental writers of our time, in the wilds of Oregon to reflect on ethics, hope, mortality, and the importance of good people in times that are not.

Development

Three Magazine

Working with designer Chris Lange, end-to-end development of the website for St Joseph Communications' latest print magazine, 3, a magazine "for those who live beyond borders and boundaries". Enterprise-grade pure Wordpress built using the Roots stack.