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About Giants Baseball Corner

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

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As we slowly put Giants Baseball Corner together, the Giants are in chilly Milwaukee to play the Brewers tonight with Barry Zito on the mound.

Hank Schulman tweeted today that :

If Zito starts with 3 shutout innings, he will be only the third Giant since 1900 to open a season with 17 shutout innings in a row (Worthington ’53, McCormick ’61).

and the Giants pointed out on twitter that the club record for starting pitcher’s win streak is Carl Hubbell, 22-consecutive regular season starts from 1936-37. Zito has 13 – and 16 if you include the post-season of last year.

GBC has urgently needed a better About page, so this is for that:

an introduction to the site

Will probably upload a new post after the game tonight with video.

We’re just fans listening to the Giants on the radio in a little corner in our house.

Bienvenue. Welcome. Bienvenidos. Wilkommen.

31 Monday Dec 2012

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Welcome to The MTK Independent, a blog made to document much of the art and writing I produced until the age of 45.

For example, I shot all the video and images on this site – like the revolving photos in the headers of Asia, Europe and the Americas. To check out more of my photography – categorized by flora, fauna and landscapes – or to see collage and sketches from over the years, use the TABS in the menu up top.

There are also short stories, journal entries, essays, paintings, drawings and lots more here; stuff I did as a kid. You can use search terms like “conceptual art” or “short fiction.”

Or try the category cloud: click a category, like journalism or photography or fiction or short film and you’ll be taken to a comprehensive list of posts in that category in reverse chronological order from top down. Same applies to places: Oakland, NYC, SF, LA, Asia, to search by date, scroll the archives list in the sidebar which goes back 30+ years by month.

MTK, Oakland, December 31, 2012

A Couple of Post Script Videos

In 2014 I was interviewed about my process and this candid clip from the end of that interview sums up my desire to change direction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvlhY0wWSnY

 

 

[This is an ARCHIVE – a contemporary site’s here]

 

 

 

Organizing Post

27 Tuesday Nov 2012

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I began this blog in the first month of 2012 but have filled it with original content dating thirty years back, to the 1980’s. Please do peruse content:

* by month in the archive list

* with category cloud to select by most populated categories

* by searching with the site search tool up top

I’ve been retrieving text files from past decades and scanning old photos and photographing objects, and posting it all here unedited, because I want the work to be arranged chronologically all in one place on the net. This blog’s an actively-updated, net-based archive of the most lucid of my work of the past 30 years, but I’ve also been blogging contemporaneous posts which include:

film and book reviews; photography of landscapes, flora and fauna of California; poetry, essays, tweets and other writing; and video coverage of events like the Space Shuttle Endeavor passing through the Golden Gate, concerts, performances at various venue around the Bay, and coverage of Bay Area professional baseball.

Between now and the end of the year, I’ll be adding more material from the past and posting less contemporaneously, because:

at the end of this year I’m ending this blog

by producing it into a single book made from the content on this site. I’m going to make a single e-book of all of this material and then tie-off this blog as the place to find it.

The idea is to create, using this blog as the template, one book that covers the vast majority of my work between the ages of 14 and 45.

As it stands, there’s a lot of  half-complete content on this site. I will be adding the full texts and additional material that ties the work together in the completed work.

This  text, image and video “book” will be produced as an e-object, but I hope to make it available as a paper object as well that includes cd’s and dvd’s of the audio and video material. This work is as yet untitled, but I’m thinking of it as mid-career review.

Thanks for your support,

M.T. Karthik

[Postscript authored one month later]

P.S. None of you will read this while I’m alive.

but this is the best of who I was from fifteen to forty-five.

11 Tuesday Sep 2012

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The international release of Prometheus in advance of the October DVD release has lots of people hitting my site to read this blog post so I am reblogging it. MTK

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**8,500+ hits (as of Apr ’14) from around the world to this post, which was written when it first opened in theaters. Please do answer poll. Thanks**

The writer William Gibson recently tweeted (@GreatDismal) that he’s also noticed strong and divided opinions about Director Ridley Scott’s new science fiction spectacular, Prometheus, in theaters now.

Gibson tweeted on June 14th: “Split on Prometheus (which I haven’t seen) is vast and deep, with smart friends on both sides. In that situation, there’s often something going on with the dichotomy.”

Similar critique surrounded Scott’s Alien three dozen years ago and Bladerunner received  the same treatment when it came out in 1982; the producers felt disrespected. On the DVD of the Director’s cut, with commentary, one of them snarls that Gandhi won the award for Best Costume Design over Bladerunner that year.

What if Ridley Scott’s worst crime is he’s a visionary unable…

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