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Untitled

29 Wednesday Nov 2017

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antonio, art, Karthik, m.t., mtk, root, San, untitled

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Posted by mtk | Filed under art, conceptual art, TX

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Windmill, Live Oak, Boulder, Goats and Fence and Wires

18 Monday Aug 2014

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boulder, fence, goats, live, OAK, windmill, wires

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Posted by mtk | Filed under fauna, flora

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Studies for Collage of 2010 World Series Ring

26 Wednesday Dec 2012

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2010, baseball, collage, drawing, Francisco, giants, Karthik, m.t., mlb, mtk, ring, San, series, sf, study, world

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Tejashri 39th Birthday Card

22 Saturday Dec 2012

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39, birthday, card, Karthik, m.t., mtk, Tejashri

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Posted by mtk | Filed under collage, North Oakland

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Heretical Thoughts at the End of the Last Baktun

21 Friday Dec 2012

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1950, 2012, 62, 9/11, anti, avant, baktun, black, Christian, day, edge, Elections, end, garde, heretic, heretical, hindu, iraq, islam, jfk, Karthik, last, lbj, m.t., maya, mayan, mlk, mtk, of, okc, rfk, society, thoughts, war, white, wtc, years

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Posted by mtk | Filed under conceptual art

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winter passion flower

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

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2012, desmond, flower, Karthik, m.t., mtk, oakland, passion, street, winter

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Posted by mtk | Filed under flora, North Oakland, photography

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Western Span of Bay Bridge, Muni Lines, Lamps at sunset

05 Wednesday Dec 2012

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2012, Bay, bridge, Karthik, landscape, lines, m.t., mtk, MUNI, October, photography, span, sunset, western

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Posted by mtk | Filed under photography, S.F., SF Bay

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just past sunset, Pigeon Point

30 Friday Nov 2012

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2011, california, Karthik, m.t., mtk, pigeon, point, sunset

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Posted by mtk | Filed under Coastal Cali, photography, travel

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Hammernegger

23 Friday Nov 2012

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Arnold, Hammer, Karthik, M.C., m.t., mtk, Schwarzenegger

These three pieces of paper fell together on my desk and with just a few nudges of my tweezers ended up looking ike this.

“Hammernegger” – the name of which has a racist tinge to it, also has a weird socio-contextual vibe.

Northern California’s native, black entertainer turned entrepreneur MC Hammer and Southern California’s immigrant Austrian bodybuilder turned actor, turned Governor, side-by-side on  printed stock with red, blue and thin yellow stripes.

It’s like nothing and everything. It’s racist and not. It represents California and doesn’t. It’s a totally unique object … I have no idea what it is, except to say it doesn’t exist anymore, cause I am using each of these in different pieces.

file under funny things that happen round the studio while working on collage.

Posted by mtk | Filed under conceptual art

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Oakland Estuary at Jack London Aquatic Center

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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Aquatic, center, estuary, Jack, Karthik, London, m.t., mtk, nice, oakland, October, sky

Posted by mtk | Filed under Oakland, photography

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Great White Egret, Egretta alba, Oakland Estuary

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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2012, alba, egret, Egretta, estuary, great, Karthik, m.t., mtk, oakland, white

Posted by mtk | Filed under fauna, Oakland, photography

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Arjuna’s Penance, sculpture

19 Monday Nov 2012

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ancient, India, Karthik, m.t., madras, mahabalipuram, monolithic, mtk, Nadu, sculpture, tamil

Posted by mtk | Filed under Asia, India, sculpture

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self portrait in studio

19 Monday Nov 2012

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2012, Karthik, m.t., mtk, portrait, self

Posted by mtk | Filed under North Oakland, self portrait

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new avatar photo

13 Tuesday Nov 2012

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2012, autumn, avatar, contemporary, Karthik, late november, m.t., m.t. karthik, mtk, now

Posted by mtk | Filed under North Oakland, self portrait

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the pennant

03 Saturday Nov 2012

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baseball, bicycling, Francisco, giants, mlb, omm, pennant, San, series, sfg, woohoo, world

Posted by mtk | Filed under baseball, our son, S.F.

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1931 Packard 840 Deluxe Eight

01 Thursday Nov 2012

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1931, 2012, 840, car, deluxe, eight, Francisco, giants, mayor's, mayoral, Packard, parade, San, sf

Posted by mtk | Filed under photography, S.F., vehicles

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Me and Marty on Willie Mays Plaza Pre Game 3 of the World Series

27 Saturday Oct 2012

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3, AT&T, away, california, championship, detroit, Francisco, game, giants, knbr, Lurie, Marty, Mays, park, Plaza, radio, ring, Romo, San, San Francisco Giants, series, shutout, tigers, vogelsong, Willie, world

ALL YEAR LONG I HAVE HUGE … OK NOT HUGE, BUT ALL KINDS OF LITTLE DIFFERENCES WITH THIS GUY AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE DOES?

He invites me on the radio to talk about it.

and last Saturday he let me wear the Championship Ring from 2010. wow.

Marty Lurie, radio host who joined KNBR after working to cover the A’s, was immediately a lucky element for the Giants.

He and I stood exactly where we are in this photo two years before, and bore witness during the run that finally made the Giants World Series Champs in San Francisco. Marty walked in and we won.

For decades a criminal defense attorney, and at that a New Yorker, Mr. Lurie became a historian of the game of baseball independent of what he does now for KNBR. If anyone must, Marty Lurie must be associated with the cross-country relationship the Giants have that reaches back to the Polo Grounds in New York City.

But yes, by providence and timing, Marty has grown into a unique role and is now an important member of the San Francisco Giants team.

Mr. Lurie’s an excellent radio interviewer whose competence is a direct result of his research. I loved watching him at the Public House in Game 5 against the Braves back in 2010. He sat down to score the game and pulled out a yellow legal pad to do it. He’s a baseball nerd trained as a lawyer!

Mr. Lurie’s interviews of baseball players and managers, which he’s been conducting season-long for three years now, are a growing chronicle of the game.

Lurie brought a whole lot of AL contacts over to KNBR  the first year and was eager to share with us NLers the value of certain stories. But slowly over the past three years, he has joined the stewards of the Giants Championships of 2010 and 2012 who collectively are arbiters of our first time championship memories.

So Mr. Lurie is an attorney who can discuss both leagues’ histories very effectively.

Marty, I’m saying it here for the first time: You’re the only lawyer I really like.

Thanks for letting me wear the Championship Ring and for doing such a bang-up job behind the mic.

sincerely,

“M.T.” and, in 2010, “Carter from Oakland”

(just pissed off a whole lot of lawyers I know who think me and them’re “real close”).

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sunset on stones, Ocean Beach, SF

09 Tuesday Oct 2012

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beach, Francisco, ocean, San, sf, stones, sunset

Posted by mtk | Filed under photography, S.F.

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Wood Tavern, Oakland

25 Tuesday Sep 2012

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arrangement, Avenue, College, flower, oakland, rockridge, Tavern, Wood

Posted by mtk | Filed under North Oakland, photography

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at peace in the City I love

09 Sunday Sep 2012

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A.P. Ferrara, apf, Karthik, m.t., mtk, san francisco, zeitgeist

Posted by mtk | Filed under S.F.

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in SOMA on the walk to AT&T

05 Thursday Jul 2012

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art, AT&T, garffiti, mtk, mural, park, san francisco, sf, SOMA, south of market, street, walk

Posted by mtk | Filed under photography, S.F.

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Iggy, Stooges and le butcherettes at the Warfield

04 Sunday Dec 2011

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2011, bender, braswell, butcherettes, dangle, gender, iggy, le, lia, lloyd, mtk, pop, san francisco, sf, stooges, teri, warfield

at the Warfield in SF last December. Also, check out Holly’s comment which includes a good interview with Teri Gender Bender, founder and lead singer of le butcherettes

Posted by mtk | Filed under music video, reviews, S.F., short film

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Families on Two Wheelers, Taipei

21 Friday Aug 1992

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1992, mopeds, motos, taipei, taiwan, transport, two, wheel

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Posted by mtk | Filed under Asia, photography, Taiwan, travel, vehicles

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Arbor Day, 1977

29 Friday Apr 1977

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antonio, arbor, day, elementary, festivities, hill, Karthik, locke, mtk, plant, San, texas, thyagarajan, tree

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Posted by mtk | Filed under flora, performance, San Antonio, TX

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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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