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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 07/07/2025

tres tacos al pastor y un chile toreado / El Chisme Sabroso, NW 26th & Thurman, Portland / #tacoportrait

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 12/06/2025

#tacoportrait tres de carnitas y un chile toreado at rico’s burritos on N Albina, Portland

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 31/05/2025

This little zine is nearly 40 years in the making — I made the photos in 1986, and a few years back decided to compile the photos into a zine. Tom Banger wrote a wonderful essay to go along with the photos. And now, it's done, and I am happy to share it with you. Get your copy at the Impeller shop!

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 22/05/2025

Happy Advance Day to Ancestral Performance Art, the new book from Impeller Press and Alissa Schwartz. Head to shop.impellerpress.com to purchase your copy.

photograph of a box of paperback books, with a hand holding one of the books so that the spine can be seen.

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 12/05/2025

details of some acrylic-on-paper explorations

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 11/05/2025

Last week I was looking up Maile Meloy’s short story collection “Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It” and learned that Kelly Reichardt made a film (in 2016!) from several stories in that book. And what a cast! I watched the film and loved it, and I’m looking forward to rereading the stories.

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 11/05/2025

this is a cocktail called the gravity bar. because it is giving 90s seattle juice joint. mixologized by emily scheer for the bandit bar in portland.

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 29/04/2025

Blowhole performing at No Life Records in Los Angeles, spring 1996

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 29/04/2025

Happy short-sleeve-linen-sweater season to all who celebrate

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 19/03/2025

2011, Pickathon. Thao and the Get Down Stay Down. Left photo is dSLR, right photo is an Olympus XA and what looks like Fuji Superia.

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 21/02/2025

detroit palimpsest (architectural detail)

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 20/02/2025

I shared some work-in-progress art on my latest Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/impeller...

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 15/02/2025

I make pictures for recordkeeping, their own sake, and as self-sourcing for my design work. these are from an archival series called “architectural detail.”

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 15/02/2025

brutalism is warm concrete on a cold day (architectural detail) power center for the performing arts, ann arbor mi, 2019

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 08/02/2025

Up late last night having extremely good, well-considered ideas

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 04/02/2025

How I found and chose the words for this letterpress poster: impellerpress.substack.com/p/improvisat... Even free subscribers to my newsletter receive a discount code to shop.impellerpress.com. Come check it out!

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 04/02/2025

Thinking about the words I choose as a printer and scribe. My pieces often speak about either the creative process or liberation. Or the power of creativity to liberate. What about you? Do you notice any themes that show up for you in your work?

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 08/01/2025

A new food cart, A Comer, is thrillingly close to my apartment and they have pambazos. i look for pambazos everywhere I go, and rarely find them. And here they are, in Portland! Delicious too. Can’t wait to try everything else on the menu. Support your local carrito!

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Patrick Barber (he/him) @impellerpress.com · 21/11/2024

chin’s chinese kitchen. for the noodles.

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