No Telling

Show—don’t tell - This advice is engraved in this artist’s memory as he plots a course taking his fifty-year career into the world of digital games. Ever the art professor, he will link games to his native art form, which is printmaking. He is inventing a printmaking game. 400 Words. pp100207. ©2010 Bill Ritchie.

Messy Desktops

Demonstration - Comments. 111 Words. pp100128. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Another Back Story

The ongoing search for the story of the Halfwood Press - He’s written so many back stories for his intended game he’s losing count. Each time a new audience for learning printmaking online appears, with a unique computer game (or board game, collectible card game, etc.) at its core, a new story comes to his mind. 741 Words. pp091229. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Opening Day

First day—again - In ten days upon beginning the 360-day cycle of a Year-of-Living-Copiously (the imaginary Gates Prize), Residents-in-Stay (prize winners) must write the nature of the island (Domain-of-Expertise). This is the entry for Perfect Press, or Printmaker’s Isle. 541 Words. pp091219. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Printmaking Camp

Thinking of ways to build community - The author retired from conventional college printmaking teaching almost 25 years ago, but he’s still interested in the field. Once he dreamed of a unified theory of media arts, but the dream has not been actualized. A printmaking camp might show how now. 961 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. pp091015. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Great Expectations, Again (2009)

Cooperative business models in health care and art education - He started a blog a year ago to experiment with a way to publish his essays. Curious as to what he was thinking and writing about ten years ago, he found it to be about his interest in the cooperative model for a health workers’ co-op he named DENTALISCO. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. pp090528. 913 Words. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Great Expectations (1999)

Clarifying expectations in co-operative development - The publications of Dr. Stephen R. Covey inform the founders of the Dental Internet Services Cooperative because they give the instructions for principle-centered leadership. Dentalisco is based on patient-centered dental practices and cooperative models. 758 Words. ©1999 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com