Blog on Anthony Maltsev

Hawaiian Film

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of weeks ago I went to Kauai and took with me my parents’ old film camera (a Nikon N80). There, I shot one roll of black and white film (Ilford HP5 Plus 400) mostly over the course of two days in Waimea Canyon and Ha’ena State Park. This was my first time doing film photography of any kind.

Photography

I have some qualms regarding photography generally. A few years ago I wrote an essay largely about photography and its faults in response to reading Every Fire You Tend by Sema Kaygusuz (a great book) and some works by Susan Sontag. I’ll copy a few sentences of that essay here:

Walnut Honey Oatmeal Cookies

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The very inquisitive cookie, pretty good and very easy to make. It’s an adapted version of this recipe (aka the first result on google when you search oatmeal cookies, but hey they call them ‘perfect’ so why not). I’m putting my version here, without as much bloat as other recipes always have. The main changes are adding walnuts, and replacing some sugar with honey.

Dry Ingredients:

1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar (brown probably good but I’ve only tried white)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
2-ish tsp cinnamon (or more or less, I am not your mother, darling)
a bit of nutmeg (if you want)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup-ish rolled oats

Wet Ingredients:

1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter. (Maybe try creamed butter?)
1.5 egg (1 egg + a yolk)
2-ish tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup-ish honey

Mixins:

Put whatever you want here – raisins, cranberries, etc – but I use walnuts.

This Website

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Well, here it is, I made a little website for little old me. The primary purpose on paper is to have a space to host a blog (where you are probably reading this) and whatever else I might do in the future, but really the purpose was to just get a little bit of exposure in some frontend development and to waste a little bit of time (which has been a huge success!).