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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]

 

 

 

Labor Day Memorandum

08 Monday Sep 2003

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To: Staff at KPFK, 90.7fm, Los Angeles, CA

From: News Director, M.T. Karthik

Re: Labor Day 2003

Friends, enemies, colleagues, compatriots, Pacificans, idealogues and free radicals – a quick note at the end of summer:

Summer 2003

THEM:
Systematic Claims by the Pentagon that the Occupation of Iraq was wrapping-up, with quick, public replacements (in television terms) of all major players involved in the actual conflict. Powell for Rumsfeld, Garner for Franks, McClellan for Fleischer, Folksy Bush taking advantage of the summer to do the one thing he does well … chumminess with  boorish, Fourth-of-July loving Amerikka (Bush’s Birthday is right around then)

Franks was retired quickly and out of sight because he was named in the ICC lawsuit by nineteen Iraqis (Bush actually thanked Franks by name in the “End of the War” reality TV Show he produced for May 1st on the USS Lincoln) and the diplomatic flap resulting over threats from the US against Belgium in NATO and this has led to the current split over EU/NATO Security Issues. By contrast, Fleischer got a resignation party, the image of an honorable discharge.

The Establishment of a puppet council of 25 men, many of whom have not been in Iraq for more than twenty years. This Council has a red, white and blue flag and at least one of its members, Ahmad Chalabi, is actually a convicted criminal – a man who stole from Jordanian interests via a family-owned entity called Petra Bank.

US:
The USA Sucks commentary on Fourth of July

IRAQIS:
Car bombed the United Nations, assassinated envoy. Truck-bombed the Jordanian Embassy, and continuous guerrilla warfare against Anglo-American forces leading to more deaths of American soldiers since Bush declared war over and Iraq free.