by Antonina Mamzenko | Oct 9, 2026 | Creative Life, Photography
“I suck and I love to fail” is a mantra improv actors use to free themselves of the pressure to be perfect, and create mental space to make bold choices and take creative risks. Creative experimentation inevitably leads to making bad work sometimes (a lot of the time,...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Sep 19, 2026 | Creative Life
Last week I found myself deep down the rabbit hole of academic literature on the topics of play and work. It started when I came across the term “plork” which was coined by Sister Corita Kent, who was an artist, a teacher and an activist, working at the...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Aug 24, 2026 | Photography
by Antonina Mamzenko | May 12, 2026 | Creative Business
Last night, I cancelled my Adobe subscription. Lightroom was the last app I had out of the whole Creative Suite, and the hardest to let go of as it basically took care of my whole photography workflow, start to finish. But my yearly contract was coming to an end, and...
by Antonina Mamzenko | May 1, 2026 | Creative Life
Seth Godin in (I think) The Practice, writes that true learning (as opposed to schooling) is a voluntary experience that requires tension and discomfort. He calls this discomfort “the persistent feeling of incompetence” as we get better at a skill. Ira Glass calls...
