by Antonina Mamzenko | Apr 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
The settlement of Vyritsa is situated about an hour’s drive outside of St Petersburg, Russia. The scenic drive south and away from the city takes you past fields, forests and picturesque old villages. About two thirds of the way there, you pass the small village of...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Apr 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
I decided to plant a garden. Like, an edible kitchen garden, with apple trees and herbs and radishes and peas. But also, wildflowers. Lots of wildflowers. There are three main problems with my plan: I have literally zero idea how to do any of it. I grew up in a high...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Mar 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
There are at least three things I didn’t know about pirates: One: The Jolly Roger was a symbol of not so much a threat to others (“you are going to die”), but more of sheer defiance (“we know we are going to die”). Pirates knew that they had signed their own...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
I had a bit of a flirtation with AI early on. It was fun and exciting to play with it and see if I could push the limits of what I myself could do. I was inspired by Jonas Peterson – a photographer and an early Midjourney adopter who seemingly mastered...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Beauty Hunting is now a book – it has been for about six months now. Like, an actual book that you can hold in your hands and buy a copy of. A book with my name on it that exists in the world. It’s quite something. It’s always so nerve-wracking to put...
by Antonina Mamzenko | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Recently I’ve been mulling over how I’d like to run this blog going forward. Sometimes I have stern words with myself and say: “Get yourself together, you need to write something every other week if you want people to keep subscribing”. But the truth is, there just...
