From the Island of O'Studios, Emeralda Region

First Class

2010-02-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

Consider this an online course - While completing a four-part tutorial he calls Mastering the Art of A Digital Game, the inventor considers offering his tutorial to people who invested in another one of his invention designs—a miniature etching press—which he believes to be interrelated.328 Words. os100206. ©2010 Bill Ritchie

Your Mission

2010-01-27T07:25:00.000-08:00

Four steps to game analysis and adaptation - The game inventor must practice every day with a four-part exercise in game analysis and adaptation. With a popular game by another artistic group (a classic rock group in this instance) he or she must complete four tasks in an hour or less and report it. 696 Words. os100127. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Artist Stamp Collecting

2009-12-05T06:29:00.000-08:00

Getting started toward electronic Artists Stamps - Working on his Stamps ‘N Stories series today the artist realizes few people know what Artist’s Stamps are so he begins to write a descriptive pamphlet on the subject of getting started collecting these miniature works of art, planning to realize the eAS. 1147 Words. os091203. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full Text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

EATC

2009-11-06T07:27:00.000-08:00

Electronic Artist Trading Cards - A chance meeting online with a creator of e-cards—those animated, musical greeting cards we get through our e-mail—launches this writer on an inquiry for some way to utilize the e-card in his inventing of a method for learning fine art printmaking online. 1181 words. (c) 2009 Bill Ritchie. os091113. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com.

Bellwether Brainstorm

2009-10-04T07:31:00.000-07:00

Visions of a new school coming - A persistent concept he calls the “perfect studio” seems closer today as the world economy presses for better ways to educate the young and re-educate the old among creative individuals in the mediums of printmaking. This professor envisions a new school. 982 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os091004. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Official Autobiography

2009-06-06T07:12:00.000-07:00

Shared world of Bill Ritchie - Reviewing the past months’ writing stored on a shared computer, this artist discovers an “official biography” sketched out by his working associate. Instead of making additions, he saves it as “official autobiography” and he makes changes to the original. 297 Word preface. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os090527. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Pressmaker’s Workshop

2009-05-27T06:40:00.000-07:00

How to start your own business making etching presses - As part of his blended online printmaking teaching plan, the designer of a press that goes with the course describes how he wants to approach the “localization” of the business of providing presses and accessories for students, and a vision of a workshop. 906 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. os090417. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

First Review

2008-05-06T18:50:00.000-07:00

One of three - Soon he will be in the a world of his course, Learn Printmaking Online, and he must consider the nature of the new course against the conventions of teaching he once practiced in the old, dying world of printmaking. There will be reviews and preparations. 991 Words. ©2008 Bill Ritchie. os080506. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Legend Making

2008-02-16T09:38:00.001-08:00

Three works in one - A happenstance usage of the word legend starts this print maker (also a maker of printing presses) in contemplation of the meaning of the word as it applies both to the interpretation of maps and story telling. He thus wonders if he might be three people. 712 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Tale of A Blind Elephant

2008-02-06T11:49:00.000-08:00

Who knows what computer art is? - Adaptation of the story of the blind men and the elephant to provide answers to the question, "What is Computer Art?" The author is an artist who began his work with printmaking and worked up to video and computer art from there. He’s a story teller, too. 1474 Words. Copyright 1988 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Serious Games

2008-01-27T11:29:00.001-08:00

Spurious curious regional game inventor - There are many serious games you can read about and even buy on the Web. Which, if any of them, have meaning to you? If you find there are none because they are based in professional and educational fields, then you have an opportunity to invent your own. 1024 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Solitary Play

2008-01-17T11:39:00.000-08:00

A form game to create time
Why do people play alone, as in the game Solitaire? This form of game is based on chance and scarcity, where you seldom win. In another form of solitary play, the author explores a game that is based on chance and plentitude, the artifacts of a rich life. 981 Words. 4228 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.

Complete Works Game

2008-01-07T12:07:00.000-08:00

Considering a traditional publication
Cleaning off his desktop one day he finds part of a sheet of uncut artist’s stamps—his own—under the clutter and, curious, he discovers he had left off on a project of creating an illustrated catalog of all his works. Could it be published cheaply today? 686 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request.