From the Island of Perfect Press, Emeralda Region

No Telling

2010-02-07T11:36:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-28T17:40:00.000-08:00

Another Back Story

2009-12-30T06:03:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-19T07:35:00.000-08:00

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

2009-10-15T07:19:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-05-28T06:56:00.000-07:00

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)

2009-05-28T06:08:00.000-07:00

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

ELPO Bible Online (2009)

2009-05-19T07:39:00.000-07:00

Sharing the load with ELPO Developers - He started writing a compendium of facts about Emeralda: Learn Printmaking Online after the model used by video game developers so people in the ELPO community of inquiry/production can participate readily. In this essay he suggests more ways to share it. 1115 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Buying Rights (2008)

2008-02-17T14:01:00.000-08:00

Art assurance - After witnessing the dynamics of an art auction where the value of an artist’s name has reached extraordinary heights, the artist proceeds to offer another artwork by a renowned artist—Jacob Lawrence. Upon reflection he discovers that he must demand more. 1077 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Multimedia and the Marketplace (1991)

2008-02-07T15:32:00.000-08:00

Alternative to artists' extinction - Multimedia can help in the workings of the independent artist, crafts person and designer. The technology is not complicated, and it may go far in preserving creativity. Independent computer consultants are like artists as they can learn from one another. 532 Words. Copyright 1991 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Potential Studio (2008)

2008-01-28T14:45:00.000-08:00

Never a Blue Monday - The artist is approaching seventy, yet he feels like a little boy and animating the things in his studio when he opens the door and turns on the lights. He thinks of all things as being like freshly charged batteries, full of potential to become artworks. 483 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Nuts, Bolts and Context (1992)

2008-01-18T12:03:00.000-08:00

Printmaking and computing unite - This former professor of printmaking says printmakers will adopt new mediums for success. What are the nuts and bolts of successful printmaking today? Where did printmaking come from? Where is it going? Many forces work on printmakers in the computer age. 938 Words. Copyright 1992 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

What is the Use of XML? (2008)

2008-01-08T13:50:00.000-08:00

Database or not a database-that is the question - Torn between a choice of two kinds of database software—one a spreadsheet program called Excel and the other a relational database program called Access, the artist who wants to invent games about asset management and legacy transfer gets friendly advice. 102 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com