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buddha belly studio
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of MANUEL SAMANIEGO-el trabajo de MANUEL SAMANIEGO
all work in progress
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of MANUEL SAMANIEGO-el trabajo de MANUEL SAMANIEGO
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sorry about the delay but my "good" friend Bernie has disappeared with the money he was holding for me
and I can't find him.
Things are slow down at the Earlybird......and I got let go as bouncer, some of them seniors are tough.
The paper I work for has had a bad year and now I am the last paperboy
and my customers are on opposite sides of town, and San Francisco has hills.
So I have adjusted for now. Where was I? oh yeah.
Looking around the ship she couldn't verify that it was her old rider craft
or not, due to the inside being bare.
An empty interior, like the inside of a coconut
with ambient light evenly glowing through the walls.
She dropped Bumbles tighties from her mouth which instantly disappeared,
being absorbed into the floor of the ship.
While Cat watched the device laden lucky fruit of the looms
disappear into the floor she didn't notice the
tiny pimple forming on the wall aside her.
And suddenly the memories came to her, she could see herself in the rider craft.
Rider ship called because it was controlled by the thoughts of it's rider.
Instantaneous thoughts, which the ship would follow.
Changing direction, speed, shape, size or configuration.
Collecting and discarding matter as it suited the moment's need.
Using only the laws of attraction and
the manipulation of matter to move around the vessel, so without moving,
the ship could reach incredible speeds.
No engine to slow it down, controlled by the thoughts of it's pilot.
Instantaneous and complete, for the moment.
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While lost in memory, she did not see the pimple hop from wall to her open mouth
and once reaching it, formed around Cat's broken tooth making it whole.
Even if she was aware Cat might not have noticed for it happened so quickly and with such stealth.
She was back where a huge armada of ships ambushed without warning
and immediately the tiny craft became a web of almost invisible wires.
In the arrangement of an immense sphere of radiating rods
with intricate patterns of geometric structures filling the interior
and extending for the distance of a small solar system.
Resembling a gigantic dandelion seed heart.
A shape the rider had imagined and made countless times for just such an occasion.
It gave the pilot time to think while it gave the enemy no real target
without shooting it's own ships.
In this configuration ship had no weapons
but could destroy all communication between the enemy ships.
Cat say's the power of the ship....is it's ability to turn into anything and any size,
if given time.
But something had made her pause from attacking.
Another rider ship in the midst of the battleships.
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This sister ship, in the standard destroyer mode.
The big guns that at full power could devastate with precision and good for ramming.
It's guns serving double purpose as weapon and armor.
The question of why it was not fighting seemed to be that it must be captured.
No organic life forms where detected on the attacking ships
yet they maneuvered into position and opened fire on the silent rider ship.
Our pilot contracted his ship, pulling from almost
invisible moon into a pod shape next to it's paralyzed sister.
As the ultra thin wires started to pull into the center they became thicker and tougher,
as part of the stratagem of pilot, they knocked into or sliced through the ghostly fleet.
Causing damage and confusion onto the opposing forces.
As the rider ship acquired mass to form a solid spherical object.
Looking like a huge iron ball with a small control room at it's center.
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group show 1975
Chicanismo en El Arte
Vincent Price Gallery/Mechicano Art Center/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(picture of Richard in oldies used for poster and in Artweek review)
designed logo for First Annual Latino Film festival 1997 of Marin
now gone international
group show 1975
Chicano Art
Office of the Governor,
State of California, Sacramento
group show 1982
The Mexican Museum
Cinco de Mayo Inaugural Exhibit at Fort Mason Center
San Francisco
Manuelita's Gallery San Francisco
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my father who fought in World War 2 and Korea, a silver star and purple heart recipient. Surprised the **** out of me, when he told me to leave the country rather then be drafted, during the Viet Nam conflict. It was not a just war, he believed. Our troops were being used for other purposes. No son of his was going to die for that. In his memory, I oppose this use of our troops in Iraq, may no son or daughter of yours be killed.
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say "GRACE"
mural inside old Bay View Bank now US bank at mission and 22nd in san francisco
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