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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 10h

People in the know: What's a decent, cheap, entry level film camera please? Emphasis on decent and cheap!

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 14d

You're welcome. And you're right - it's certainly confusing given its view of St. George's. I think they've introduced (or reintroduced?) it relatively recently, with le big anniversary looming. For ref, it's near a Turner and a John Martin.

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 14d

Context here, from the painting's caption, in the Walker

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 14d

Lovely, impressive work - we were introduced to Lewis at Mostyn Gallery earlier this year. Looking forward to seeing it in the context of this exhibition 👍

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 14d

Today's #OnlineArtExchange theme is celebrations and unveilings for the recent reopening of The Harris, Preston👏

In keeping, here's John Fulleylove's 1877 painting, Opening of the Walker Art Gallery (the same year) 🏛️

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · 15d

"I’m an emptied-out thing, scrambling forward without any sense of reason... I’m trapped in this nightmare, this flesh palace."

From the archive, read short body horror story, The Window, by @doublenegativel.bsky.social www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/06/john...

📷 Li Qing, The Window, 2018

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 15d

At open eye gallery in Liverpool this evening for the launch of @thenerve.news. All power to new left-leaning publications ✍️📰🗞️

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 19d

Back teaching and also a few thousand words into a PhD. Very torn about putting our website, The Double Negative, on hiatus - or not. We launched in 2011. It's been v important for both of us (my partner is cofounder). Part of the weekend will maybe be spent trying to come to a decision.

a man in a glass case of emotion is looking out of a window

ALT: a man in a glass case of emotion is looking out of a window

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · 29d

A couple of very nice exhibitions close this week. I reviewed ALL THAT REMAINS: A Curator’s Choice @victoriagallery.bsky.social (until 20 September): www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/all-...

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 13

Mike found that one of the clear wins of BEDROCK was its situating of specific artists at multiple sites. Among them, ChihChung Chang, exploring the slippage between stories we think we know and those as experienced by living, breathing places: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/08/sett...

thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 13

Back in June, @doublenegativem.bsky.social traced a philosophical line across the city as he reviewed the 13th edition of Liverpool Biennial: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/live...

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 13

Hi! We've been on a much needed break, but thought we'd pop in to exclaim that it's the final weekend for Liverpool Biennial 2025! We've written a few words around this edition. A good place to start is with CJ Fagan's My Life in the Biennial with Ghosts: www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2025/06/my-l...

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Mike Pinnington @doublenegativem.bsky.social · Sep 13

From second city of the empire to cultural regeneration: the complex evolution of place

📷 Parker Greenwood, The Port of Liverpool (1892); Atkinson Grimshaw, Liverpool Quay by Moonlight (1887); LS Lowry, The Liver Building, Liverpool (1959); Tate Liverpool site under construction, Albert Dock (1988)

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 4

Call for book proposals!

Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 4

More Le Guin for those who observe!

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Afterwords: Ursula Le Guin share.google/hAqlTyONIBUN...

BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, Afterwords: Ursula Le Guin

Discover other ways of being, with science-fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin.

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 4

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables share.google/Mi56NKB0WLa5...

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Ursula Le Guin nominated by Kate Stables

Musician Kate Stables highlights the fascinating life of author Ursula le Guin.

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Sep 1

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Learning to Talk Painting

Exploring Residency Models and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Contemporary Painting

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Aug 28

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Top 10 photography documentaries | The Independent Photographer

Over the years, filmmakers, writers, and directors have focused their attention on those fascinating and often enigmatic individuals who have helped shape the very foundations of photography as we kno...

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Aug 28

Features a contribution by Geoff Dyer, author of Zona

thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Aug 28

Bleak, magical - and it's no overstatement to say - prophetic, Tarkovsky's Stalker is showing in Liverpool next week. So, this morning's listening:

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker share.google/IQws6Z0WqIAq...

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Landmark: Tarkovsky's Stalker

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film Stalker.

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Tree House Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hit me up with your favourite contemporary/recent female poets. I have a list but keen to discover some I may not know! #BookSky

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Aug 27

Jorie Graham 👍✍️

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DoESLiverpool @doesliverpool.com · Aug 27

🛠️✨ DoES Liverpool Open Day – Sat 30th Aug ✨🛠️
Come explore, make, and celebrate creativity with us!

SewTaylorMade Designs is run by Liz Taylor and uses gorgeous Japanese fabrics to create bags and accessories such as bookmarks, glass cases and purses.

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Sashiko-embroidered patches, scissors and multicoloured sashiko thread against a background of sashiko-embroidered cloth

A sashiko-embroidered drawstring bag with scissors and red sashiko thread, against a background of sashiko-embroidered cloths

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · Aug 26

A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:

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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk · Aug 27

This was interesting - a potted social and cultural history of the relationship between women and cat-ownership, slurs and misogyny. Could have done with more than the allotted 30mins. And maybe not a male presenter with no experience of having a cat!

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