Patrick Pittman

Happiest in the far-away corners. Itinerant writer and editor. Partner @nomediaco. Emailer @buckslipmail. Very occasionally @thealpinereview.

[Patrick Pittman @patrick_pittman]

"Maybe this May will be the last of the bad months, before things start to get better." A feature-length documentary by me and @freydonia (collectively @nomediaco) of a dilated moment, not so long ago, that our bodies are maybe beginning to forget?

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Go through life being strong, she said. Wrote a new one of these! Subscribe if you'd like more! https://t.co/ct9JgmH8aq

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I am so excited for this. I love it when the truly good and brilliant people—and Ted is both—get the New Yorker bylines they've always deserved.

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@craigmod Fine for me on multiple g accounts. Which is not the same as “just you”.

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@anne_theriault Last work trip there I just booked the downtown Novotel on like agoda or something. It was totally fine, well located and not crazy pricy. Like, nothing thrilling but it did the job.

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Oof but the tears this has me in. “Despite what is being transmitted to us 24 hours a day, every day, you can actually be strong and kind at the same time; those qualities are not mutually exclusive. You can look for beauty and love and put that out in the world.”

[Lars Gotrich 🍷🌊 @totalvibration]

"All of you who found hope and solace and beauty and comfort in Low, and Mim’s voice, and the sound of those 2 singing together, working it out.
The sound you are hearing is: love can be hard."

Love to you, Zak. Cried all over again.

https://t.co/c1NW27DCjJ

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@TM_Brown Thanks Ted! It turned out a lovely beast.

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So proud of this. So excited it's done. You can buy, if you'd like!

[fosta @fosta]

A huge effort from the team over the last three years has led to this - the definitive book on Design Fiction from the originators of the practice. Thanks to everyone involved.

The Manual of Design Fiction.
Available now.

https://t.co/xUsi44qReb

#designfiction #futures

[Patrick Pittman @patrick_pittman]

The rarely observed wild bookmaker in his natural habitat, where he sleeps in a nest of sticky flags.

[Near Future Laboratory @nearfuturelab]

Our No Media Nonsense Editor-in-Chief @patrick_pittman modeling our forthcoming 'The Manual of Design Fiction'. Have you signed up to get yours yet?

https://t.co/wUJ5u1sg4x

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Ok, yes, fair, it's a little behind schedule, but... https://t.co/ma8pWCoBtI

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@disquiet Also needs the most brutal: “Ok.”

[Patrick Pittman @patrick_pittman]

Working on this book over the past many years has been such a joy – so excited to hear the thrum of the presses getting ready to roll... Can't wait to get it into the world!

[Julian Bleecker @darthjulian]

🎂 Exciting news! 13 years ago I wrote the first comprehensive essay on 'Design Fiction' (https://t.co/lscClDhvT9).
Shortly our book on the topic — 'The Manual of Design Fiction' — will be published! (Paper ordered. Presses inked and warming up!) (https://t.co/n2GStYFFD6).

[Patrick Pittman @patrick_pittman]

No better timing than my inevitable COVID weekend coinciding with the surprise release of Bosch: Legacy

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"Russell’s art accepts the mutual struggle; it’s at peace with the unholdability of longed-for things and the is-ness of what is. It elevates me, lifts me out of bad habits of mind, and helps me to meet the world on its own terms..." @alexmolotkow 🔥🔥 https://t.co/D0iEPLHy9B

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@madelaine_lucas I did not expect “cleanskin” to trigger such a specific missing/longing!

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@JeremyTiang @pollyfmbarton @LiverightPub I read this in the Fitzcarraldo edition - really liked it a lot!

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@ibogost In Australia we called it a schluck-schluck. I guess they had accents.

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@theflowingsky And so this is Figma, I hope you have fun…

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@briansholis @marvis_music Wow. I stopped scrobbling years ago but I love it so much that it’s apparently settled into some sort of quiet new ongoing utility? Must revisit.

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This has been an excellent project to work on, excited it's out and getting attention - more to say on it later, but Michèle's got all the good reading in this thread...