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100, 1912, 2012, AT&T Park, baseball, cain, Chicago Cubs, giants, jersey, matt, mlb, new york giants, ny, ny giants, san francisco, San Francisco Giants, sf, vintage, vs.versus, year
03 Sunday Jun 2012
Posted in baseball, photography, S.F.
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100, 1912, 2012, AT&T Park, baseball, cain, Chicago Cubs, giants, jersey, matt, mlb, new york giants, ny, ny giants, san francisco, San Francisco Giants, sf, vintage, vs.versus, year
29 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in artists books, collage, North Oakland
24 Thursday May 2012
Posted in Coastal Cali, photography
21 Monday May 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
Added a whole bunch of new header images – from NYC, Yokohama, India, SF and Oaxaca.
If you refresh, it replaces the header in a randomized manner – or you can just click round on the tabs above,and it will do the same.
I also found and added an essay I wrote on a morning in Hong Kong 21 years ago.
If you check it out and know anyone passing through Chung King mansions in Tsim Sha Tsui two decades ago, ask them if they remember the old man described in the essay – would love corroboration.
18 Friday May 2012
Posted in Coastal Cali, fauna, photography
17 Thursday May 2012
Posted in flora, North Oakland, photography
12 Saturday May 2012
Posted in North Oakland, photography, S.F.
09 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in photography
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07 Monday May 2012
Posted in essay, North Oakland, public letters
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2012, barack, congress, congressional, Democratic, election, Manifesto, may, mitt, mtk, obama, occupy, Paul, politics, president, presidential, progressive, race, reform, Republican, romney, ron, Senator
We demand better leadership, greater social welfare and a more secure future established and defended by law;
We demand the prioritization of social welfare by our government, as established by the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and this manifesto;
We demand a solution set to a Five Year Plan authored to conclude with a saner, better, safer, more economically solvent USA by the year 2068, which we consider the 50th Anniversary of The People’s Year, 1968.
We demand this begin with a bi-partisan, total-governmental “pause-and-reflect” to comprehend and address with greater social and moral responsibility what has been 30 years of a market-protective policy that has degraded our social foundation;
We demand Senators, Members, Justices and the Executive Office take much greater ethical responsibility for the struggles of our elders, the poor, the unemployed and suffering; ethical responsibility that matches at least what we achieved in great acts during times of economic crisis in our Nation’s recent past, specifically before the policies of the last 30 years: the Social Security System, FDR’s New Deal, LBJ’s Great Society, President Carter’s budget that predicated military aid from the USA upon humanitarian – and not political or economic – concerns;
We demand collaborative and not competitive effort in this regard – in the past we made the winner of the Presidency take other candidates as cabinet members and even the Vice Presidency – ending the animosity, showing greater concern, allowing our shared concern to become a national ethos for bettering our country;
We demand that our Representatives and our Media take a much more serious, sober and street-level look at our Nation and produce better coverage of issues and solutions-oriented messages that show our greatest strength: working together;
We demand that this pause-and-reflect to re-establish the priorities of the United States Government, our government, take place immediately, before Congress recesses and before the Election 2012 occupies the socio-political context, specifically because the elections process has collapsed in at least two of the first three federal elections of the 21st Century;
We demand an immediate Federal Election Commission as we had in 1973, focused on the rapid signing of a Federal Elections Act [FECA] that resolves once-and-for-all a nationwide, technologically-sound method of voting that satisfies major concerns about the proper casting and counting of votes, standardizes the process nationwide with contemporary technology and protects it from the blatant manipulation that has already occurred and is being swept under the rug (we have, since 2000’s horror of an election, established numerous non-profit, non-partisan institutions and groups with solutions);
We demand an end to the failed Immigration, Drug and Economic Protectionism policies that are collapsing into bitter, divisive and philosophically mean-spirited discourse predicated by race and race-orientation rather than national character;
We demand a solutions-oriented, bi-partisan Government to overcome what has gone on in the last 30 years: the slow descent of our culture into base values, the debasement of our government, our people, our way of life and our very spirit as a Nation due to despotism, political corruption, corporate influence and greed;
We demand a solution set to a Five Year Plan authored to conclude with a saner, better, safer, more economically solvent USA by the year 2068, which we consider the 50th Anniversary of The People’s Year, 1968.
We demand the Five Year Plan be authored by the Government after the Election of 2012 to allow the process of our recovery to begin next year – a Five Year Plan passed by Congress in 2013.
In solidarity,
we, the people
01 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in essay, North Oakland, protest, public letters
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28 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in fauna, North Oakland, photography, short film
28 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in jazz, poetry, social media
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artist, author, bread, coin, coined, composer, genius, hip, hipster, Lester, money, Pres, Prez, repeater pencil, saxophonist, Young
The great musician and composer Lester Young
(nicknamed Prez by Billie Holiday)
who lived a lush life and died at 49, too his-last-name
was one of the hippest human beings of the 20th century.
Prez was smooth of tone and tongue,
and coined the use of the word ‘bread’ for money
and the phrase “repeater pencil”
to describe the act of repeating one’s own past ideas.
I’ve been a repeater pencil for weeks now as I fill these social media with back-dated content.
Prez always said he didn’t want to be a repeater pencil.
27 Friday Apr 2012
Posted in baseball, photography, S.F.
24 Tuesday Apr 2012
Posted in photography, S.F.
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2006, billboard, geary, m.t., mtk.karthik, san francisco, sf, street
24 Tuesday Apr 2012
Posted in poetry
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To those about to light a toothpick,
the reverse end of an incense stick or
deliberating whether to forcibly divorce
a pair of chopsticks,
by lighting one on the gas stove,
in order to light a smoke
because you’ve no matches or lighter …
I salute you.
mtk 2012 Oakland
22 Sunday Apr 2012
Posted in Asia, collage, conceptual art, Japan, social media, travel
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age, california, calipan, country, digital, Japan, Karthik, m.t., mtk, nation, new, republic, secedes, tech, utopia
California secedes from the U.S. and joins forces with Japan to become a non-aligned, pacifist, non-nuclear-powered, green, tech-producing powerhouse in global digital and computer science.
Here’s the flag of the new most prosperous nation on Earth.
I hereby announce my Candidacy for General Secretary of The Republic of Calipan to anybody living in Aztlan or the Land of the Rising Sun who agrees Calipan exists.
21 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in North Oakland, photography
21 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in fauna, photography
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2012, Area, Bay, california, Karthik, m.t. karthik, Marin, mtk, NORTHERN, san francisco, TURKEY
20 Friday Apr 2012
Posted in social media
I am now populating this site with data reaching back in time by using the dating facility of the posts as a means to publish work – writing and art – that has in some cases never before been on the Interwebbery.
This makes this site a comprehensive and contiguous chronological expression of the work of MTK or M.T. Karthik.
I don’t want to give this up to FBs timeline (though some of this material may appear there). Here I have creative control, but the stuff has had limited reach.
That said, that is the point of this site: a compendium, a rubric (mtk), a survey, a collection, a memoir.
please consider me and the work in context.
16 Monday Apr 2012
Posted in photography, S.F.
12 Thursday Apr 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
added installations, baseball, journalism, poetry, essays and short stories
to this site and have started back-dating to content of the past. root around the side bars and you’ll find ways to get to work by category and time.
07 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in photography
07 Saturday Apr 2012
Posted in flora, North Oakland
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asagao, california, m.t. karthik, morning glory, mtk, oakland, osteospermum, rose
06 Friday Apr 2012
05 Thursday Apr 2012
Posted in Uncategorized
Renamed the Blog today and have attributed FFPTP and given self agency as Editor-in-Chief of The MTK Beacon. Subsequently adjusted the ABOUT tab.
04 Wednesday Apr 2012
Posted in baseball
04 Wednesday Apr 2012
Posted in baseball
03 Tuesday Apr 2012
Posted in full games
03 Tuesday Apr 2012
Posted in full games
02 Monday Apr 2012
Posted in photography