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Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:56:23 -0700

Well.. I just am not over here too much anymore but I wish some of you interesting folks would come over to Open Salon, and join up. It's a great community of folks and very few trolls.

It has something for everybody. Come on by and say hello sometime.

http://open.salon.com/blog/rictresa

http://RichDs.stumbleupon.com/review/19771878/

Wed, 13 May 2009 08:31:27 -0700

Thank you Saint Jude

For all of your help.

http://RichDs.stumbleupon.com/review/15652434/

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:25:56 -0700

RichDs Americano....

There is only one, (okay 2 other things) I love more than me. One is my wife Theresa who without her I would be nothing. I love her so. And the second is my country. I live in a pretty good country. We were once respected in the world and I pray, come the next election, we will get rid of the crooks and liars and get my country back on the straight and narrow.

Anyhow.. back to the graphic, (because it is the subject of the blog.) Did I mention my mind wanders? I can and will spin off every once in awhile, get a thought and think it clever enough to share, and I will. So back to the graphic. I took the picture of myself using my Olympus Stylus 300, tripod mounted using a remote shutter. Next I created the graphic around myself using Adobe Photoshop 7. The chrome was rendered via, Eye Candy 4000.

The fancy metal work behind me started life out as a couple different alpabet letters in Edwardian Script. I rasterized them and had my way with them.
I might as well mention that I use a Macintosh computer. I was a PC user for a number of years until I went back to school in 2001. After I went through tha phase of sneering down my nose at those, "pretend computers," I started using them and found I had had my head up my behind all along. Jumped the PC ship and have never looked back.
Thanks for looking. -RichDs

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:04:43 -0700

"I'm Just A Tourist In This Slaughter House Of Life." -RichDs

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:02:35 -0700

"Modern Mike." -RichDs

Here we find our hero, Modern Mike as he tries to figure out his new... made in China, time machine. He's got a date with Joan of Arc and he doesn't want to be late.

http://RichDs.stumbleupon.com/review/15829504/

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:28 -0700

My long time friend Modern Mike was the owner of this sweet ride when I first met him way back in 1983. At this point in time, he was the ONLY white boy.. I think in the entire state of California who not only owned but drove a lowrider, every single day. His trunk was full of batteries to power the hydralics that made everything go up and down. It was a beauty.. Too much so, it turns out that some local thugs didn't dig it. They were no talent mooks and it killed them to see somebody else with such a sweet ride.. So much so they shot gunned the side of the car, blowing some big holes in the driver's side, (probably using 00 buck.. You could almost put your fist in the holes they were so big.)

I have some photos from the glory days and I fixed this one up last night, for you to enjoy today! -RichDs

Here is an animation I made of the car doing it's thing..

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:59:41 -0700

Another good friend, Joey Chin's, custom Texas Sled. HD Shovel Head.

http://RichDs.stumbleupon.com/review/15868839/

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:58:51 -0700

Yet another friend who doesn't know any better than to send me his picture. I present to you, Martian Rabbit.

http://RichDs.stumbleupon.com/review/15930800/

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:56:55 -0700

"Childspeak." -RichDs

A graphic I did for an old website of mine. It's really a mouse-over and you can see it in action, *HERE*

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:52:59 -0700

� 2008 RichDs, (AKA RicTresa)

My buddy in CA first bought this trike about 30 years ago. It looked a bit different back then. He rode it for around 10 years.. Got bigger bikes.. Took the trike apart thinking he was going to rebuild it and there it sat for another 20 years.

He had it restored and gave it as a present to his wife. -R