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M.T. Karthik

Monthly Archives: August 2012

My Thousandth Tweet

31 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in S.F., social media

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Recently I posted my 1000th Tweet:

“1000th Tweet: Twitter’s useful but cluttered. You have to tweet a lot to get good at it unless you’ve a weird knack. Reading others is best.”

As a critique thus far, I think those 140 characters do it. I won’t recommend Twitter, but I do find some value in it. I will continue to read and post there, which is a huge surprise to me given how I began:

A little less than a year and a half ago, amidst the San Francisco Mayor’s Race, but before Interim Mayor Ed Lee was allowed to run, SF Board of Supervisors Chair David Chiu (himself a Candidate for Mayor) led the Board and the Interim Mayor to The Great Twitter Giveaway of 2011, which ended the strictest controls on corporate investment in public space in the country: SF’s city tax on companies wanting to do business here.

They shattered our City’s progressive history functionally to create a tax-break to entice Twitter to make its base in San Francisco. That was when I started my first and only Twitter account @mtksf and posted my first tweet:

“Twitter doesn’t deserve the tax break on stock options. They stand to make tens of millions at IPO!”

I stand by that first tweet, there was no reason to give Twitter the taxbreak, which is being extended now to other social media and tech companies. They all want to be in SF.

The Board and Interim Mayor Lee failed to represent our city’s values and changed our city fundamentally.

Those Mayoral candidates used the tax-break to gain money and support for their campaigns from corporate interests, railroaded the Board and City into giving up millions of dollars that could have gone in the General Fund and, far worse, shat on long time businesses that have stayed in SF choosing to contribute to our bottom line when it would’ve been cheaper to leave.

I started using Twitter as a part of my Campaign for Mayor in an attempt to bring  light to these and other issues I have with contemporary SF politicians – a wholly bought-out crew of pawns for special interests.

But I continue even now to use, read and post to Twitter, which has grown on me. I use it primarily to read others and to find important links sent by intellectuals, writers, news and sports reporters,actors, producers, comedians and athletes.

trip to SF via Bay Bridge 1080HD

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in North Oakland, S.F., travel

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New Bay Bridge Toll Booth Operations Center

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in North Oakland, photography, S.F.

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New Matt Cain Signature Pin

28 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in baseball, S.F.

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Underwater Yahtzee

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in games, North Oakland, our son, underwater

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yet another passion flower

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in flora, North Oakland, photography

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More Summer Flora

18 Saturday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in flora, North Oakland, photography

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Lincecum vs. Strasburg and Melky Suspended 1080HD video

17 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in baseball, S.F.

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1080, AT&T, August 15, cabrera, dc, drug, Francisco, giants, hd, Karthik, Lincecum, melky, milan, mlb, mtk, Nationals, omm, park, policy, San, sf, sfg, Stephen, Strasburg, suspended, testosterone, Tim, violation, washington

This past Wednesday was a crazy day at the park.

My son and I had been excited for weeks because we figured with both teams in the hunt for the pennant and young, premiere pitchers on the mound, it’d be a defensive battle. The Freak vs. The Phenom

Then SHOCK! – we find out at the ballpark moments before the game starts, that Melky Cabrera, who leads the Giants and the National League in hits and is second in batting average only to the Pirates’ Andrew McCutcheon, had been suspended for 50 games for violating MLB’s substance abuse policy.

Numb, speechlessness … and the game began:

We're Cheaters.

16 Thursday Aug 2012

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It was amazing how none of us knew or suspected up to the last minute.

I was at the park yesterday with my son and we had no idea. We got there early to watch BP and see if any of the players would sign autographs (Thanks, Jeremy Affeldt!).

Then a family of four came walking up the aisle wearing crisp, new Melkman hats and I heard the daughter say, “Daaaaad … why am I wearing this? They just suspended Melky for 50 games!” and I laughed out loud.

She clearly didn’t want to be at the park wearing a silly hat her Dad bought her, so I figured someone was just telling her that to annoy her and she was not informed enough to know it wasn’t true.

Ten seconds later, I sat, stunned, holding my mobile phone staring into space – Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games for violating substance abuse policy of MLB.

Oh Melky, why? Oh Sabean, Why? Oh Bochy, Come On!

Finally today, after hours of being stunned and speechless, I was able to make a joke:

SF Giants Fans are now lactose intolerant – is there a guy named Soy available out there who could play left field?

We’re Cheaters.

16 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in baseball, S.F.

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It was amazing how none of us knew or suspected up to the last minute.

I was at the park yesterday with my son and we had no idea. We got there early to watch BP and see if any of the players would sign autographs (Thanks, Jeremy Affeldt!).

Then a family of four came walking up the aisle wearing crisp, new Melkman hats and I heard the daughter say, “Daaaaad … why am I wearing this? They just suspended Melky for 50 games!” and I laughed out loud.

She clearly didn’t want to be at the park wearing a silly hat her Dad bought her, so I figured someone was just telling her that to annoy her and she was not informed enough to know it wasn’t true.

Ten seconds later, I sat, stunned, holding my mobile phone staring into space – Melky Cabrera suspended 50 games for violating substance abuse policy of MLB.

Oh Melky, why? Oh Sabean, Why? Oh Bochy, Come On!

Finally today, after hours of being stunned and speechless, I was able to make a joke:

SF Giants Fans are now lactose intolerant – is there a guy named Soy available out there who could play left field?

Lincecum v. Strasburg [Melky Suspended] 1080HD

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in full games

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1080, 15, AT&T, august, baseball, cabrera, dc, drug, Francisco, giants, hd, League, Lincecum, melky, mlb, National, park, Stephen, Strasburg, suspended, testosterone, Tim, violation, washington

This past Wednesday was a crazy day at the park.

My son and I had been excited for weeks because we figured with both teams in the hunt for the pennant and young, premiere pitchers on the mound, it’d be a defensive battle. The Freak vs. The Phenom

Then SHOCK! – we find out at the ballpark moments before the game starts, that Melky Cabrera, who leads the Giants and the National League in hits and is second in batting average only to the Pirates’ Andrew McCutcheon, had been suspended for 50 games for violating MLB’s substance abuse policy.

Numb, speechlessness … and the game began:

Summer flora

12 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in flora, North Oakland, photography

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Karthik, mtk, oakland, summer

Sub Marine Video Program 1

08 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in North Oakland, our son, performance

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marine, milan, north, oakland, ocean, omm, pool, sub, temescal, video

Olympic Flashback Reggae Soundtrack #1

08 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in games, music video, short film

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bolt, flashback, olympic, reggae, shashamani, soundsystem, soundtrack, usain

Barry Zito, Lou Seal and Baby Panda at the Yard 1080HD

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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2012, AT&T, august, baby, Barry, delivery, giants, Hector, lou, mlb, panda, park, sanchez, Seal, sfg, Zito

Engineers Placing Pilings at Mission Bay, SF

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in installations, S.F.

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We were on our way to the SF Giants game last week and saw these immense pilings going deep underwater and into the soil for impending building. This is the very beginning of the huge new public space planned for these unused piers – project approved last year by the Interim Mayor and Board.

Incredible to see the specificity with which these long pipes were being placed – two men on a raft floating near the top of the deeply placed piles, as a surveyor takes readings for their placement and an operator swings the long boom of the crane.

Barry Zito Delivery

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in baseball, S.F.

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Sergio Romo in the 'Pen

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Sergio Romo in the ‘Pen

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Melky Cabrera Base Hit

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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Clay Hensley Delivery

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

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August 2nd, 2012

Shuff at the Fish #1

07 Tuesday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in games, North Oakland, short film

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Zeets, LouSeal and Baby Panda Warming Up at the Yard

04 Saturday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in baseball, S.F.

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this is really gorgeous in 1080pHD – choose that option when playing

I’m one of the guys who has been rough on Barry Zito, culminating in my calling him “our own beloved, expensive, Prince of Inability, Barry Zito.” in a story about a game from the Championship Season, Eleven to Eleven in the Bottom of Eleventh [aka The Greatest Comeback in SF Giants History].

Worse, I was verbally and casually at the bar rather abusively mean to Barry Zito throughout the winter. I apologize. I was way out of line.

I feel bad now, because Zeets’ effort and focus (and wins) are back and I have no idea what it must be like to work in his field,I feel bad about it.

but anyway, one of those mean jibes I used to make was:

“Lou Seal works harder than Barry Zito – we ought to make him go out there and wear the Lou Seal costume for as much as we’re paying him …” (and worse) I mean, if he can’t do what we’re paying him to do!”

Ohhhhh snap. that was mean … and I didn’t mean it. I was frustrated and just wanted to defend our World Series Championship. Barry Zito, I am sorry. I really feel bad about that.

Then hilariously on Thursday before the game I had both of them in focus, by chance! This was August 2nd at AT&T Park before the Giants vs. Mets.

I mean the footage as an apology to Barry Zito and an appreciation of Lou Seal. Hector Sanchez, whom the program says the guys call Baby Panda, catches. Watch clip to very end and you’ll catch a glimpse of his eyes. His eyes are incredible. Check out Baby Panda’s eyes from the centerfield camera calling a game. It’s rad.

Unfortunately, just minutes later, Zeets had two outs in the first and all of a sudden lost it: a walk, a walk and a third batter hit by pitch! then a double and another double, spotting the Mets four runs in an exhausting 36-pitch top of the first. ugh.

M.T. Karthik, 2012

03 Friday Aug 2012

Posted by mtk in conceptual art, journal entries, North Oakland, Uncategorized

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Over the past 200 days, I’ve populated this blog with 200 posts.

Many are backdated – material collected over the past thirty years – but I’ve also posted three to five times a week in 2012, with mostly photographs of baseball games, flora, fauna and landscapes.

There’s a distinct and deliberate difference in the work of these last five years from the work before. In my 40’s, my work is decidedly less political, more image-oriented and produced with and for the plastic, digital fluidity of the inter-webbed world. This is by design.

I do not wish to be known as a political artist.

I promised myself decades ago I would work socially on political matters until I turned 40, when I hoped to turn the mantle of activism over to a younger generation. I have helped this happen and documented its occurrence.

When I was 15 I wrote that I’d make these changes to process when I turned 40, including the addition of filmmaking – which I waited decades to take seriously.

At 15, watching the first of the Macintosh computers come out, I also knew that new media would arise over the years. My generation was the very first to own a personal computer or send an e-mail.

I have tried to be judicious about studying and using tech. I do not play games.

Of new media, Youtube has been the most interesting to me. I started my first Youtube account at 40 and have several now which I use to embed videos to this site.

Continuing my methods over the past year, at 45, I joined Facebook and Twitter during seminal years for both companies. I observed closely as Twitter was given tax-breaks to move to San Francisco and FB created its massive IPO.

I’ve deactivated my account on FB and will not post there again.

I will continue to use Twitter in concert with this blog. I’ve come around on Twitter. I still decry the tax break created and approved by Ed Lee, David Chiu and the SF Board of Supervisors, but I am a Twitterer and will remain so.

The work until I turned 40 is represented here by posts of work I produced between 1981 and 2007. It’s detailed and requires time to sift through. I’ll continue over the years to add work from the past and to edit the contemporaneously written material describing work from my 20’s and 30’s.

I hope to leave behind a sound record of what I consider my work via this blog.

I dream of a reader willing to consider the continuity of thought here as a kind of single expression of a humanistic free radical living in the latter half of the 20th century and the dawn of the 21st. I am lonesome because of my work.

I like blogging and after some years of experimentation, I believe in WordPress as the best free way to do it.

Thanks to any visitors in advance; I love comments, likes and interactions. I am blessed that my site gets visits from many many different countries around the world. You are welcome here.

I remain, M.T. Karthik, author, artist, producer and director in pursuit of art, culture and change.

Is This Melky Cabrera's Last Basehit as a Giant?

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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Is This Melky Cabrera’s Last Basehit as a Giant?

02 Thursday Aug 2012

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M.T. Karthik

This blog archives early work of M.T. Karthik, who took every photograph and shot all the video here unless otherwise credited.

Performances and installations are posted by date of execution.

Writing appears in whatever form it was originally or, as in the case of poems or journal entries, retyped faithfully from print.

all of it is © M.T. Karthik

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