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~ midcareer archive, 1977 – 2017 plus 2022

M.T. Karthik

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Summer Issue: Hot Joy! Plexus no. 26 #ALSIce BucketChallenge, Bats, Cicadas, Not as many TripDigit Days

29 Friday Aug 2014

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Hi Everybody and Welcome!

Home in San Antone is a netzine and blog named for the Fred Rose song popularized by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys – video on our About Page.

My name is Karthik. I grew up on the Northwest side in the 1970’s and ’80’s: Locke-Hill Elementary (original and current); Hobby middle; Clark high (’85). I left to do my Bachelors at U.T. (’89), then went traveling, living outside of Texas for many years. I’ve returned to San Antonio at least once a year and often three or four times a year since I left.

I’ve dropped in and out of town, so I’ve observed the rampant development and growth like a skipping stone observes a lake.

This is massive change: people, places and things disappearing, some reappearing. Newness sprouting up everywhere.

Waste, violence, overcrowding and traffic are terrible byproducts of the era, but though San Antonio’s culture has been in tremendous flux, just a few years shy of her 300th birthday, she’s beginning to look pretty diverse, eclectic and vibrant.

Now I find a complex city bursting at the seams.

There are already a few excellent “hyper-local” blogs (Geekette, SAFlavor, Rivard, Dr. Denise Barkis-Richter’s)  in the blogroll. I will add links as I think of them (actually right now I’m going to go add Blue Star, which I witnessed born).

This blog’s just a slow-growing image of our town through my lens; a zine that reflects, documents, journals and archives with photographs and video from the present and past for the future.

I’ll be inviting others to provide content and setting themes for future issues, but for now, here’s Volume 1, Issue 1, of Home in San Antone.

See you ’round San Antone

Karthik aka MTK

@homeinsanantone

Inaugural Post [Soft-Launch Date]

13 Wednesday Aug 2014

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Greetings and welcome to Home in San Antone!

The site is named from the Bob Wills classic and we can be found on twitter @HomeInSanAntone

The headers are rotating panoramic shots by OMM, and this gem, our twitter header:

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The others can be found in the flora tab

Welcome to the birth of Home in San Antone!

Concerned About Leon Creek Waterway at Buddy Calk Trailhead

12 Tuesday Aug 2014

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antone, antonio, Buddy, Calk, creek, home, homeinsanantone, in, Leon, northwest, nw, omm, photos, San, Trailhead, waterway

Been studying these two ponds at the end of Leon Creek for years and they are currently filled with thick green algae from a lack of circulation of the water and a lack of rain. OMM took these shots today.

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Curb Your Doggy

11 Monday Aug 2014

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antone, antonio, creative, curb, dog, doggy, dogs, hand, handmade, home, in, made, poop, San, shit, signage, signs

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intense look to the homemade one (l) and pretty detailed poops in both. [photo: OMM]

Obligatory San Antone Shots

10 Sunday Aug 2014

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Alamo, Americas, antone, antonio, Cultures, home, in, Institute, local, obligatory, photos, pictures, San, Texan, tower

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Annual Summer Visitors to our Home in San Antone

08 Friday Aug 2014

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antone, antonio, cicada, dusk, home, in, Karthik, mtk, photo, resh, San, singing, tibicen, western

Tibicen resh – Western Dusk Singing Cicada

1 3 7 photos: MTK

spiny shrub after brief thunderstorm [macro]

31 Thursday Jul 2014

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after, antone, antonio, field, home, in, rain, San, shrub, spiky, spiny, texas, thorn, thorns, thunderstorm, torned, white, wild

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White-Tailed Deer Herd NW SA [feat. OMM]

20 Friday Jul 2012

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antone, antonio, buck, bucks, deer, doe, does, fawn, fawns, home, in, Karthik, mtk, nw, San, tauled, texas, urban, white, wildlife

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Stop Motion Texas Stroll [feat. OMM]

23 Saturday Jul 2011

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antone, home, in, Karthik, motion, mtk, omm, San, stop, stroll, texas

This gallery contains 13 photos.

San Antonio Zoo in Drought Year 2011

22 Friday Jul 2011

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animals, antone, antonio, beautiful, birds, drought, hd, healthy, home, in, Karthik, mtk, San, video, year, zoo

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After Rain A Few Days Later at Buddy Calk

21 Thursday Jul 2011

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antone, antonio, Buddy, Calk, creek, home, in, Leon, San, texas, Trailhead, waterway

This gallery contains 19 photos.

Stop Motion Texas Live Oak Climb [feat. OMM]

19 Tuesday Jul 2011

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antone, antonio, climb, home, in, Karthik, live, motion, mtk, OAK, omm, San, stop, texas, tree, video

Red-Striped Ribbon Snake of SW Texas

31 Friday Jul 2009

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antone, antonio, garden, garter, home, Karthik, native, pond, proximus, red, rubrilineatus, San, snake, sribbin, striped, texas, thamnophis, water

San Antonio Botanical Gardens [feat. OMM]

10 Friday Jul 2009

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antone, antonio, beautiful, botanical, cactus, dyads, flora, garden, gardens, home, in, lakes, oaks, pine, San, trees

Spotted Fawn

21 Sunday Jun 2009

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Treehouse Monopoly World Record, 1981

24 Friday Jul 1981

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antone, antonio, home, in, light, monopoly, record, San, treehouse

Yeah, that’s me, Mike, Paul and Anup, breaking a world record here in San Antone in ’81

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Arbor Day, 1977 – 2014 [feat. MTK]

29 Friday Apr 1977

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antone, antonio, arbor, day, elementary, hill, home, in, Karthik, Kartik, light, locke, Peggy, San, school, students, thyagarajan, Weyel

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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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