Mike Pinnington ✍️
@doublenegativem.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Writing the City | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Incorrigible Buyer of Books https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/ https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
Saw and loved this @ Tate Britain today 🎥🇩🇿 Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets | Art and design | The Guardian share.google/w40DXO1b3GED...
Zineb Sedira review: A chic ode to revolutionary cinema, brainy boozers – and exceptional berets
Tate Britain, LondonThe Franco-Algerian artist’s exploration of radical film-making in the 1960s and 70s is so seductive it makes you wish the crowd was livelier and the wine was flowing
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Worked from the Tate reading room today. Free and open to all. Can recommend. Reading Rooms at Tate Britain | Tate share.google/lyzHjVkqFqYH...
Reading Rooms at Tate Britain | Tate
Explore our vast collection of library and archive items in this free to use study space
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‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
I see Station Eleven, the adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel's pandemic novel, has just st landed on sky. You should watch it. www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2023/04/surv...
I've decided to write a book about drawing, so I can work out what it is. What is Drawing? luluallison.net/2026/07/24/w...
What is Drawing?
See more of my drawing here For some time now I have been thinking about writing a book about drawing. And now, I have decided that I am going to do it. I have been drawing as long as I can remembe…
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Got a logical urge to move back entirely to physical media; but while I retrain my brain, I'll still make the odd bandcamp purchase, like the first Stereolab album in 15 years (released last year) ▶️🎧 stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instan...
Instant Holograms On Metal Film, by Stereolab
13 track album
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Vertigo by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac | 9781782279747 | Pushkin Press share.google/m876wrVOgj5y...
Vertigo by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac | 9781782279747 | Pushkin Press
An irresistible gift edition of the mindbending thriller that inspired Hitchcock's Vertigo He isn't a cop anymore, but when an old friend asks Flavières to keep
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This is fun ▶️ Fans on Beatles tour spot Sir Paul McCartney at traffic lights - BBC News share.google/O5q2f2iBARk7...
Fans on Beatles tour spot Sir Paul McCartney at traffic lights
Beatles fans are thrilled to see Sir Paul McCartney as their bus pulls up next to him in Liverpool.
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This, from @commapress.bsky.social, sounds brilliant 👍 Monster Capital - Tales of Modern Unease | Comma Press share.google/GNKKzJIiamtc...
Monster Capital - Tales of Modern Unease | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Matthew Holness, Christine Poulson, Sanjida Kay, Brontë Schiltz , Ian Carrington and others
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A genuine superstar ⚽ Kevin Keegan, Liverpool legend and former Newcastle manager, dies aged 75 | Football | The Guardian share.google/bWaoTORiLeCt...
Kevin Keegan, Liverpool legend and former Newcastle manager, dies aged 75
Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager who was a member of Liverpool’s serial champions in the 1970s, has died aged 75
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It’s Newcastle vs Liverpool on the opening weekend of the season. There’s been bad blood between the clubs recently. They should come together to pay tribute to Kevin Keegan. Both clubs have lost a legend. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Kevin Keegan, Liverpool legend and former Newcastle manager, dies aged 75
Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager who was a member of Liverpool’s serial champions in the 1970s, has died aged 75
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Flipping between channels catching some of the Burnham coverage. I know all broadcast journalists do it, but has anyone thought to mention to sky's Sophy Ridge that 'well, look' isn't contractually obliged punctuation?
Can we agree rn to never let the US anywhere near football, ever again.
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
First day in a while that the idea of wearing over ear headphones isn't abhorrent! Now listening 🎧 ▶️ avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/album/writte...
Written into Changes, by Avalon Emerson & the Charm
10 track album
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"But the thing made an image, lasting only a moment, like a sudden flicker of light." Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Jason and the Argonauts is on at my local cinema today. Worth watching for the skeleton scene alone - one of my earliest memories of film as magic.
Skeleton Harryhausen
Alt: A skeleton equipped with sword and shield terrifyingly emerges from the parched ground in an iconic scene from Jason and the Argonauts - devised, of course, by the genius of stop-motion, Ray Harryhausen.
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Looking for new weekend reads? 📚👀 Check out the Clarke Award shelves on our @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social page - includes this year's shortlist plus a curated selection of novels, non-fiction and short story collections from our author alumni! 👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/clarkea...
Something of the Brian and Charles about this. Ann Droid - BBC iPlayer share.google/pdV0fqFmouPP...
Ann Droid
It’s Sue’s worst nightmare - an overly attentive, socially inept, second-hand robot carer. But maybe this droid has its uses... Starring Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston.
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SAVE THE DATE - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival returns this July - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival share.google/3T7skSRSzaVV...
SAVE THE DATE - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival returns this July - Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
This year's theme is HOME, unfolding across a diverse range of disciplines, including music, theatre, visual art, literature and film.
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A trip to Blackpool has to be on the cards >>> LINDER: THE RETURN OF LINDERLAND - Grundy Art Gallery share.google/UbcfMRiHQfLg...
LINDER: THE RETURN OF LINDERLAND - Grundy Art Gallery
Grundy Art Gallery and Hayward Gallery Touring present Linder: The Return of Linderland, a reconceived version of Linder’s landmark exhibition, Danger Came Smiling, that has toured across the UK since...
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On tonight (followed by Vertigo): BBC Four - Arena, Kim Novak's Vertigo share.google/h6LYWeBIgzUL...
BBC Four - Arena, Kim Novak's Vertigo
Portrait of a Hollywood star who left it all behind to live life on her own terms.
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