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Perfect Studios' Articles focus on my views on practice management for sovereign individuals--people as artists, crafts people and designers. Most of these are on capturing, identifying, controlling, evaluating and disseminating valuable Human Structural Intellectual Capital, or HSIC. I like to think that creative people are teachers. Not many, if any, of these articles are destined for print publishing, but on-line only, and by request. It's all part of my game, Emeralda, a game portal for asset management and legacy transfer.

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2003 Essays

NEW! My Heart Goes Pity-Pat:
What turns me on online

An artist between to ages—the 20^th Century and the 21^st—must contend with a kind of middle-life existence. Traditional arts are still with him and he loves to work in those old media but he’s lured by the illusion of a promising new art form: Video games. 794 Words. 3624 Characters. 2 Pages. ips31230 My Heart Goes Pity-Pat. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Orientation Lecture:
My first etching

While he’s drawing the new version of the e-stamp for ArtsPort (working remotely on Perfect Studios island), he imagines himself instructing his first online printmaking class. He explains the game he designed to be for the interface of distance learning. 631 Words. 2926 Characters. 1 Page. ips31220 Orientation Lecture. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Strokes of Genius:
Looking back at my Y2K Journal

In the summer of 2000 this artist kept a journal that was also a printed sketchbook based on the idea that time looks like a slinky toy. He wrote notes in it about his economic theory called triple entry bookkeeping. Three years later he reviews his idea. 802 Words. 3807 Characters. 2 Pages. ips31205 Strokes of Genius. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Build That World!
What else is worth the rest of your life?

Clarity of vision inspires a command to build the virtual world he’s been dreaming about for over thirty years. He lays the foundations for a plan of action, a manifesto to assemble a group of artists, crafts people and designers and launch a development. 800 Words. 3846 Characters. 2 Pages. ips31115 Build That World. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How to Design an Online Drawing Class:
A balancing act for a hybrid art course

After two weeks in his beginning drawing class the art professor returns to his primary interest, which is to design an online art studio class that may exceed what a traditional drawing class can achieve. He describes how to use the hybrid online system. 1419 Words. 6778 Characters. 3 Pages. ips31006 How to Design an Online Drawing Class. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Getting Back into the Teaching Game:
Early Education in Video Games Helps Lifelong Learning and Teaching

A veteran of the early days of using TVs and computers in fine art education observes how a current controversy around using video games as teaching reminds him of the old days in art school. He says most public education doesn’t equip people to buy this. 1192 Words. 5665 Characters. 2 Pages. ips30827 Getting Back into the Teaching Game. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How to Make Millions On A Video Game:
Invent A Game That’s Really Different

Anyone can make a video game today. Books tell people how to do it, and you can download ready-made shells or templates, animation programs and game engines. But inventing a new game requires a different kind of approach, and this art professor tells how. 7856 Characters. 3 Pages. ips30718 How to Make Millions with A Video Game. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Doing What Has Never Been Done:
A pre-boomer’s view of digital games

Poets may be dependent on language and artists may be dependent on art history, but digital-based game producers depend on their own unique domains of expertise. This professor aspires to rise to a new level of art games that can unshackle his creativity. 1448 Words. 6831 Characters. 3 Pages. ips30618 Doing What Has Never Been Done. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Taking Stamps ‘N Stories to the Museum:
Rediscovering the Video Dig

His art works are already in the museum in a city south of his hometown, but he wants to make it more accessible himself. Therefore partway done with his game, Stamps ‘N Stories, he decides to make it “museum friendly”. What a surprise he finds: His Muse! 1443 Words. 6719 Characters. 3 Pages. ips30529 Taking Stamps N Stories to the Museum. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Emergency Meeting Revisited:
The Emerging Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

When he was still a young professor and learning the complexity of visual arts’ migration to the age of electronic reproduction, he called the Emergency Meeting of some of the best and brightest artists. Twenty-five years later, he senses a new emergency. 817 Words. 3884 Characters. 2 Pages. ips30519 Emergency Meeting Revisited. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Professional Standards, Art Education and Information Technology:
Questions for art education needs assessment in the age of digital reproduction

Seven questions listed (without answers at the time of this iteration) which might form an outline to study the need for on-line art education. The main emphasis is that the arts, like all aspects of today’s society, have been impacted by high technology. 311 Words. 1704 Characters. 1 Page. ips30330 Professional Standards. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

An On-line Loophole for Art:
Learning printmaking for free on-line

As he reads an article about using popular TV shows and film clips to teach college classes, the author—a printmaking teacher—visualizes using his video tapes to teach without the worries of copyright protection that other college professors contend with. 1066 Words. 5532 Characters. 2 Pages. ips30330 An On-line Loophole for Art. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

2002 Essays

Cobbler Story:
Encyclopedia of e-folios

Cobbling a castle together for a movie compares to cobbling together bits and pieces of a lifetime career in art that fit the modern electronic communications technologies. The writer is a professor from the 20^th Century planning to work in 21^st C. modes. 1924 Words. 9423 Characters. 4 Pages. ips21105 Cobbler Story-Encyclopedia of e-folios. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Public Intellectual Unbound:
Artist/Scholar goes mobile

This is an almost unheard-of expression because in times past the public intellectual depended on face-to-face meetings of the real kind and then schools cornered the market. People go to school to encounter intellectuals and has become a rare experience. 1376 Words. 6694 Characters. 3 Pages. ips21026 Public Intellectuals Unbound-The artist-scholar goes mobile. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Shoe Story:
Getting to the Big Picture Show

He wills his mind to be like Superman—to leap tall buildings with a single bound, find connections between a shoe-shopping trip, and the role of the artist in saving Earth’s human life sustainability. On top of it all, he will to be a Great World Teacher. 1498 Words. 3 Pages. ips21016 Shoe Story-Getting to the Big Picture Show. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda and Structure:
TV, Science and Cyanotype

New structural relationships that Emeralda helps create are those that change social institutions and help create more stable and sustainable relationships to the natural world. That art happens to be the apparent resource of the game is mere coincidence. 1901 Words. 4 Pages. ips21006 Emeralda and Structure-TV Science and Cyanotypes. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

An Incurable Disease, A Gift of Life:
Writing An Artist’s Last Love Letter

Thinking about artist’s slumps and suspicious lumps, this author thinks what he’d like to do if he were told he had only six months to live. What difference could he make if in 40 years he had not made a difference? On the other hand, it’s never too late. 1201 Words. 2 Pages. ips20926 An Incurable Disease A Gift of Life. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Exercising Freedom in Emeralda City:
The Practice of Emeralda

Sometimes we’re so accustomed to striving we walk right past our goal and do not see it. We may, strangely enough, mistake it for one of those obstacles we are always warned will stand in the way of our pursuit for freedom. In Emeralda, this can be fatal. 785 Words. 2 Page. ips20916 Exercising Freedom in Emeralda City. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Writing to You from Northland Ashland:
The Artist’s Last Love Letter in Pause Mode

A college with a small arts faculty may be the perfect place to roll out the Perfect Studios model—environmental as a core philosophy, located on the edge of a huge lake—what more could the Emeralda Inventor ask for? Until later, money would be one thing. 733 Words. 2 Pages. ips20906 Writing to You from Northland Ashland. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Unhappiness is the Best Beginning:
The Bad Teacher’s Dream

Before writing the next in of his Perfect Studios series he read Dr. Phil, followed the doctor’s instructions, and asked himself to find the root of his inappropriate reactions to life. His dreams reveal this truth: He leaned his ladder on the wrong wall! 1331 Words. 3 Pages. ips20827 Unhappiness is the Best Beginning. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Art Outlasts Politics Said His Tee:
Reading Tees Leaves Me In Wonderment

He’s thinking about the economy and about correcting the economics of a nation is a big task—but which will be more effective, art or politics? What corrections need to be made, and can art be effective in making those changes if politics drives the arts? 4900 Characters. 1023 Words. 1 Pages. ips20817 Art Outlasts Politics Said His Tee. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Room in the 21^st Century:
Spots on Walls of the Museum Without Walls

Looking back to the 20^th Century he views scores of friends—many of them who would have been successful artists but for their 19^th Century roots. Those were good times, but now the gallery, the museum and the collectors’ walls are full, those venues gone. 613 Words. 2 Pages. ips20807 Room in the 21st Century. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

What Did You Learn at the Museum, Grandpa?:
A Visit to the Museum of Yesterday

This Itinerate Professor reflects on his experience at a local museum, and the people he saw there. They’re practitioners of time-worn rituals, but their rites are hollow from a perspective he’s working on that he thinks is the 21^st Century Living Museum. 788 Words. 2 Pages. ips20728 What Did You Learn at the Museum Grandpa. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Proposal for 12 Free ‘Net talks::
One Artist’s Way

How do you cultivate a park? An Artist’s Way is a vision of the Living Artist’s and Poets’ Society office—a small, brightly decorated building behind a “classic corner green grocer’s” at Thomas and Queen Anne Avenue. It’s fantasy now, but it could happen. 797 Words. 2 Pages. ips20728 Living Artists and Poets Society. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Community Technology Center in Uptown Seattle:
My Modest Proposal

After a meeting with a city community technology planner the Uptown Seattle artist/scholar reports on his impressions. He used several 20^th Century models at first, but decided they were of limited value. Nonetheless, they’re useful to see what not to do. 486 Words. 1 Page. ips20728 Community Technology Center in Uptown Seattle. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

On That Day His CD Burning:
Your Writer’s Life on CD/R

On the day a student tries the legendary Art Student CD Rom, will it play? Will that student get what he or she is looking for, which is the complete writings of the missing professor made from his whole lifetime of writing? He burns his CD/R and wonders. 739 Words. 2 Pages. ips20718 On That Day His CD Burning. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Why An Artist Joins the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce:
Ten reasons

Artists who join their local Chamber of Commerce are more successful than those who won’t, claims this writer, as he sends his first membership check. He lists the reasons he thinks this will help him reach his long term goal of a re-invented arts studio. (Includes business profile) 1268 Words. 2 Pages. ips20708 Why An Artist Joins the Chamber of Commerce. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Seattle—City of Artists Parks:
Emeralda City’s Virtual, Verdant Virtuous Plan

Three principles—chaining, fishing and sustaining—channel this artist/scholar’s journey among local and global efforts toward reforestation of planet Earth. It’s his vast plan to join the Union of Concerned Scientists in their call to humanity to act now. 944 Words. 2 Pages. ips20708 Seattle City of Artists Parks. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

It’s Friday So This Must Be Perfect Studios:
Intertwine two worlds

Avoiding the pitfalls of an old world when dramaturge and solipsist are indistinguishable, today’s writer must not only think globally and act locally, but also build the pathway to travel. A local art festival is the scene behind which real play unfolds. 1010 Words. 2 Pages. ips20628 Its Friday So It Must Be Perfect Studios. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Interview with an Auction Expert:
Happy Tale of A Defrocked Professor Leading Somewhere

In a flash of inspiration, the hopeful public intellectual sees way to finance the un-financed—by fanciful means of interviewing an anonymous auction expert and then planning an auction to raise the monies for a resident public intellectual in a fishbowl. 1615 Words. 3 Pages. ips20618 Interview with An Auction Expert. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Seven Steps to A Highly Successful ____________:
From Henriette, Marco to Me

His search for the Perfect Studios ends in seven days—seventeen years from the day he walked off the old campus for good. That was the age of mechanical reproduction come to its end, and a new experience opened up he calls the age of digital reproduction. 2094 Words. 4 Pages. ips20608 Seven Steps to A Highly Effective--. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The City Dump Museum of Art:
Transferring your legacy at the landfill

Taking his cue from the widow of a dead dentist, the author describes how he plans to avoid his worst nightmare: Seeing his legacy lost upon his death because his widow was unprepared to handle it. He thinks a game is the only answer for artist’s dilemma. 497 Words. 1 Page. ips20519 The City Dump Museum of Art. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Art Educators Must Embrace New Technology: :
A New Paradigm for Distance Learning from Reinvented Arts Studios

This essay is based on an interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education. It said for their own future and that of their students (and their former students) art education leaders must embrace new technologies with an old-fashioned entrepreneurial spirit. 1654 Words. 3 Pages. ips20509 Art Educators Must Embrace the New Technologies. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Teacher-What’s Wrong with My E-stamp?
Projections on a failed stamp issue

To pass on-line art education tests and thereby get credit for work, the student and the teacher must put each e-stamp in their e-folio of stamps through the build video test—for making a DVD. The author gives an accounting as his test proceeds, and more. 842 Words. 2 Pages. ips20429 Teacher What's Wrong with My E-stamp. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

A Case of Recursivity:
The Canon in D and other stories

Several Hollywood movies paint a background for this artist/writer’s plan for a game he invented called his Emeralda. He thinks electronic games are winners if they have a background screen play. But the academic side of him can’t be quelled as he writes. 1469 Words. 3 Pages. ips20419 A Case of Recursivity. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

One-minute Screenwriting:
Your Claim to 15-minute Fame

How long can we expect to be famous today or tomorrow if we are artists or writers? It’s more like a practical joke that the world, seen through rose-colored glasses, is playing. We let our imaginations run wild, but we must dream, anyway, and keep faith. 876 Words. 2 Pages. ips20409 One Minute Screenwriting. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda Works But What Do You Do?
What software testing means to me

Stopping partway between two tests he is running on a DVD-burning program, the author takes the opportunity to use this as an example to explain the purpose of the name he uses as his company. He introduces the routine of testing and burning DVDs for PCs. eralda Works. 916 Words. 2 Pages. ips20330 Emeralda Works by What Do You Do. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Links and Education Communities:
H. G. Wells’ World Brain is now possible

Concurrent with his work on Emeralda, an on-line interactive cooperative game he invented, this author works in digital media and writes about his works in progress. H. G. Wells’ 1938 book coincides with the evolution of links among teachers and students. 446 Words. 1 Page. ips20320 Links and Education Communities. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Why PDAs Are Required for Emeralda Play:
Making Your E-Stamp with Your Proximate

The e-stamp is a basic part of Emeralda, according to its inventor. He is a stamp artist in the age of digital reproduction. He wagers that the 240X320 viewing screens of most PDAs today are suited for matching the pairs of stamps and stories in Emeralda. 615 Words. 2 Page. ips20310 Why PDAs Are Required for Emeralda Play. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How Emeralda Works
For On-line Art Ed

Emeralda Works is the business name that the inventor gave his on-line testing bureau. To get started, he needed a testing bench and a benchmark. His goal is to be a great teacher for the world’s printmaking societies, and his test is part of his success. 1107 Words. 2 Pages. ips20228 How Emeralda Works for On-line Art Ed. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How Emeralda Works
For On-line Art Ed

Emeralda Works is the business name that the inventor gave his on-line testing bureau. To get started, he needed a testing bench and a benchmark. His goal is to be a great teacher for the world’s printmaking societies, and his test is part of his success. 1107 Words. 2 Pages. ips20228 How Emeralda Works for On-line Art Ed. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

My Secret Theory of Art Ed Online Revealed
Opening My Perfect Studios

People don’t want to be told how to make art. They want information about art making. This is the basis for a revolutionary approach to art education on-line an artist/professor invented. He wants to share it with a for-profit higher education enterprise. 1371 Words. 3 Pages. ips20218 My Secret Theory of Art Ed Online Revealed. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Stranger In My Perfect Studio
Words like beggars to understanding

A philosopher wrote in book the words, “The interplay of noise creates the conditions for emerging complexity, which is the pulse of life.” An artist in the age of digital reproduction responds with a description of how this is the feeling of strangeness. 565 Words. 2 Pages. ips20208 Stranger In My Perfect Studio. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

A New Idea for TIAA:
Asset Management and Legacy Transfer

The huge retirement fund to which most institutions of higher education subscribe has an opportunity to provide a valuable new service to professors. It is a trust fund for intellectual capital which has long been under the governance of old technologies. 1706 Words. 3 Pages. ips20118 A New Idea for TIAA. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Writing Between the Paragraphs – Part 5
Fantasy dialog between two professors

Distance learning is a new phenomenon of the late-20^th Century, but usually excludes arts—the kind of hands-on art and face-to-face encounters we’re used to. Having cast away old assumptions, however, one man thinks art ed at a distance, on-line, is here. 1404 Words. 3 Pages. ips20108 Between the Paragraphs - Part 5. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

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2001 Essays

Sunday, December 30—It Must Be Perfect Studios:
A Day with an ITinerant Professor

Subject: A waking tourist checks his passport and tourist itinerary to get oriented. A routine daytime activity for an ITinerate Professor of art in the 21^st Century, this story helps explain some short courses in paper and technology that the professor envisions. 924 Words. 2 Pages. ips1230 Sunday-It Must Be Perfect Studios. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Losing Intaglio Classes and Winning Them Back:
Future practices applied today

As an advocate of future practicum, an Itinerant Professor writes about how news of closure of intaglio printmaking classes is both bad and good, depending on the attitudes in universities. Their dwindling resources make opportunities for change, he says. 1234 Words. 3 Pages. ips11125 Losing Intaglio Classes and Winning Them Back. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Sharing Moments:
Foundations of Art Ed On-line

The designer of an art education on-line curriculum compares shares in the stockholder sense to shares in arts enterprises. A new view of economics is needed to enable the artist/teachers in the age of digital reproduction, and sharing moments is the key. 1641 Words. 3 Pages. ips11115 Sharing Moments Foundations of Art Ed Online. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Test Drive for the DVD Maker:
Not just another Bozo on the bus

He took a test drive over a weekend to see if, with his DVD-making skills, he could produce a disc that’s practical and beat his record time. Its utility value would take a longer period, but getting it from his raw idea to his e-store was his first goal. 1126 Words. 3 Pages. ips11105 Test Drive for the DVD Maker. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Reinventing the Art Collector:
New art instruments for times of uncertainty

E-mail about the first color Chinese prints made for art appreciation help an art and technology theorist see changes in art collecting. Information and telecommunications technology restores relationships in artists, collectors and art education domains. 1453 Words. 3 Pages. ips11026 Reinventing the Art Collector. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Keeping Your Passport Up-to-Date:
A cyber traveler’s cautionary tale

His passport is not a book like object that fits in his pocket with stamps in it showing where he’s been. The author created a digital passport going with his game, Emeralda. His essay is about being “passport ready,” conceived for folks who love freedom. 1073 Words. 2 Pages. ips11016 Keeping Your Passport Up to Date. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Case of the Missing Professor:
Paths you can audit, paths you can trust

Voices in his head, you could say, but the academic’s expression is inner dialog. A motivational speaker would say “inspired self-talk”. This artist/writer uses it to start his essay about Digital Versatile Discs (DVD) and how he is using DVD to make art. 1414 Words. 4 Pages. ips10926 Case of the Missing Professor. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Analyze This :
Not your usual book

A book falls from the top shelf as the author is clearing out his cell’s library—a relic but not ancient. Reading it stars him on a memory path, but not nostalgia. Concurrent events mean he’s coming back to where he began and seeing it for the first time. 3074 Words. 5 Pages. ips10728 Analyze This Not Your Usual Book. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Sneaky Professors Playing Games:
Why eggheads like to invent their own rules

World-saving plans sometimes take strange forms. You can have your government sponsored ones backed up by military might. Or, you may choose religious strategies. This writer selects mind games that intellectuals can play—and keep hidden in their closets. 2731 Words. 5 Pages. ips10718 Sneaky Professors Playing Games. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Knock Knock Who’s There?:
Your First Art Ed On-line Student

Another day, another test. At Emeralda Works the inventor of Emeralda gets to test his machine under all kinds of conditions. The real region he lives in offers surprises almost daily. Today it’s a chance encounter with a news item and a graduate student. 861 Words. 2 Pages. ips10628 Knock Knock Whos There first Art Ed Online. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Reverse Engineering Myself:
What makes an on-line art educator different?

The closer the possibility of doing anything artistic on the Internet World Wide Web, the more important it seems that rethinking arts becomes. Most, if not all, that we expect of artists and teachers is inappropriate to information technology of the Web. 2588 Words. 5 Pages. ips10618 Reengineering Myself An Art Educator. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Puzzlement:
Selling the Pieces of Multimedia Art History

The editor of the DVD, Living Prints Zine says that it be the “weekly reader” and main reference work for a free on-line art course in media arts appreciation. The pieces are sold like pieces of a thousand-piece puzzle, using the global on-line bookstore. 488 Words. 1 Page. ips10608 Puzzlement Sellng the Pieces of Multimedia Art Histo. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Don’t Retire a whiner:
1O steps to take now

The world’s best art teachers do not show the whole picture of artists’ lifetime work to their students. Among art education colleagues aging is a personal, secret issue. This writer—who strives to be a great teacher in the arts—offers some timely advice. 1606 Words. 3 Pages. ips10519 Do Not Retire A Whiner 10 Steps to Take. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Taking It With You:
Printmaker’s Pearlie Gates

Despite that they say You can’t take it with you (when you die), and Life is a journey no one gets out of alive, an artist who is using the mediums of printmaking and digital systems can pack his or her art with the end in mind. Life can outlive artists’. 918 Words. 2 Pages. ips10509 Taking It With You to Printmakers Heavenly Gates. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Do IT Right by the Kids:
Renewable wood and new media arts

Enthused by encountering a PTA leader who is finding artists-in-residence for K-6 school kids, the author considers what he would do if he were given the task. He envisions a pull-marketing Web site to start thus making an Information Technology platform. 510 Words. 1 Pages. ips10419 Do IT right by the Kids. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Artist’s Happy Widow:
She’s Happiest Who’s Light on Her Feet

Dusty, one of the author’s avatar guides on the ferry taking Emeralda players to the Islands of Domains of Expertise, records his introductions. This is a technical sheet he used to improve his audio/video clip recording methods he needs for making a DVD. 2035 Words. 4 Pages. ips10320 Artists Happy Widow. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Thanks for Your Prescience:
A Case of Mistaken Advice

The artist/author plans to see a private college for the teaching, research and practice of arts of the 21^st Century, so he considers how posters—to him the epitome of exciting graphic arts—used to be published. He thinks about new ways of seeing posters. 1650 Words. 3 Pages. ips10310 Thanks for Your Prescience. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Dream Equity:
MOE Versus OPE

What are dreams for, anyway, if not to be one’s private, self-sustaining critical analyses devices? Dreams are more than odd and uncontrollable phenomena to the Emeralda Defender. Dreams can suggest the right things to do in making investments in oneself. 2262 Words. 5 Pages. ips10228 Dream Equity. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Another Look at Partnering:
Looking to Develop Artists’ Trust in Technology?
Discover A Strategic Partner

The artist/author thinks: Partnering--hearing there is a job opening at Artist Trust for development associate. It as not a job, but an opportunity to open a gate leading toward co-operating in the Next Big Thing in artistic livelihood for Washingtonians. (Copy written article may be incomplete). 2433 Words. 5 Pages. ips10218 Another Look at Partnering. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

A Prisoner’s Dilemma and New Twist on an Old Story:
Walking A Life-long Journey in Your Students’ Shoes

Awakening from a dream, the ITinerate Professor applies a new standard for evaluation of the online, interactive, cooperative game he invented and finds it is not a game to play after all, but a curriculum design for art teachers who want to teach online. 2709 Words. 5 Pages. ips10208 A Prisoner's Dilemma and New Twist on an Old Story. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Nightmare Prevention
My Worst Fears Overcome

As a young professor, he saw what happens to old professors’ work. His living nightmare was confirmed by Dr. Osler’s recommendation: Old professor should be gassed. He invented ways to stop his this nightmare, conserving as that was his lifelong striving. 1023 Words. 2 Pages. ips10129 Nightmare Prevention for Old Professors. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Power of Limits
In Digital Fine Arts and Crafts There’s Barely Enough Room to Turn Around

The artist/scholar thinks of himself as a moral philosopher. He encounters another author, a bona fide philosopher and scholar, calling himself an artist. In the daily routine of writing on a computer and solving little technical problems is a difference. 1240 Words. 2 Pages. ips10119 Power of Limits in Digital Fine Arts. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

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2000 Essays

Artist Trust Dental Service Cooperative Auction:
A Joint Venture in the Art of Life Science

Close to the end of the art auction era a new kind of auction experience is opening up, thanks to the Internet and World Wide Web. And who should initiate it, this new kind of art auction, but an artist. He puts his own works on the line—on-line, that is. 1038 Words. 2 Pages. ips01225 Artist Trust Dental Services Co Op On Line Auction. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

You Are on My List:
A Message to Certain People on Our Seasonal Greeting Card Mailing List

The artist sends a message to selected people whose names are on his and his wife’s joint Seasonal Greeting Card mailing lists—a practice they started in 1999 under the false names of Trixie and Dusty. His reason for a special message is his new Web site. 1054 Words. 2 Pages. ips01215 You Are on My List. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

If You’re So Smart, How Come You’re Not Ritchie?
I am!

Bill writes about himself, stopping between facing his fear of his drawers (paper drawers, that is) and getting on with one of his database building projects. He imagined an article that recounts how he grew wealthy after reading into Stephen Pollan’s book. 1450 Words. 3 Pages. ips01128 If You Art So Smart. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Gates Prize:
The World's Best Kept Secret Award

The history of the Gates Prize is explained by one of the recipients of the prize. The focus is on the reason the prize is virtually unknown. Gates, while he lived, knew that such a perfect situation, and such a prize, was a hundred or more years distant. 714 Words. 2 Pages. ips01124 The Gates Prize History. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Birth of Trixie:
His Story of A Computer Program

Ritchie, working on Emeralda, describes how he came upon the idea of one of the many iterations of his game. He says the game is for “the gifts of life” and sees himself as being on a pathway (or locus) of beauty. He puts it in the form of computer games. 949 Words. 2 Pages. ips01112 Birth of Trixie. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Simple Man, Simple Dreams:
The Printmaker’s Last Love Letter

The printmaker who designed “TRYX” explains the events that led up to the invention of the product. Deaths of an art professor and a dentist triggered his imagination and jump-started his plan to develop a remedy for an old economic dilemma families face. 1366 Words. 3 Pages. ips01023 Simple Man Simple Dreams. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Big Flash!
New lease and free Web sites

A magic Genie-like figure visits the author as he was polishing a picture frame and revealed the secret he was searching for—a key to his family fortune, a collection of art. It is an idea that could only come to someone with art both in hand and on-line. 520 Words. 1Page. ips01013 Big Flash. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Asset Management for Artists in the Age of Electronic Communication:
Love Letters in Silica

Appraising art after Y2K is a new kind of game for artists, crafts people and designers with obligations to families and communities. The implicit chivalry of creative, inventive, discovering and imaginative people did not die when computers took command. 1178 Words. 3 Pages. ips00924 Artists' Asset Management. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

In Retro:
What is it all about?

An artist who put on his own 40-year retrospective explains himself, as he thinks about a three-year exhibit that he began in the year 2000. He compares it to artists who come forward to explain their way, and to an Olympian taskmaster coach he saw on TV. ics: 1006 Words. 4749 Characters. 2 Pages. ips00918 In Retro What Is It All About. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Why Buy Emeralda?
Valuation of an unborn blockbuster game

The creative, inventive, discovering and imaginative artist of a past era, spent playing teaching, research and production roles, must pause and consider the commercial value—in every sense of the word value—of non-competitive games for the gifts of life. 2278 Words. 4 Pages. ips00910 Why Buy Emeralda Valuation of An Unborn Blockbuster. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Charter of accounting in the age of electronic communications:
Designer accounting and artists’ markets

An e-gallery, or e-store, is the artist’s gateway to the age of electronic reproduction. In the same way the printing press enabled the visually and aurally empowered creative person’s participation in community economies, the Internet empowers artists. 1376 Words. 3 Pages. ips00826 Charter of Accounting in the Age of Electronic Communications. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Unfinished Garage Saga Demonstration:
Mr. Ritchie Goes to California

This author/writer falls in with business-minded people and then is expected to show them his business plan—but he has none. The next year, he heard a lecture by a Real Networks founder say that a serious business today is not planned. Things change fast. 527 Words. 2 Pages. ips00806 Unfinished Garage Saga. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Windows on my Studio:
An artist’s buying spree

He is thinking of the best of all studios he can imagine, and in a vision he sees a series of examples and decides which one to choose. In the end, he decides he will have them all—as only he can! In a way, that’s exactly what he has! His Perfect Studios. 1915 Words. 3 Pages. ips00803 Windows on My Studio An Artists Buying Spree. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

My Retrospective:
The Real Thing

The rejection card was short and to the point, saying to me, “We are a dying business so we do not need you.” It was from a magazine editor who—like the card she sent me—was on the way to the recycling bin. The author turns his attention to better things. 1799 Words. 3 Pages. ips00710 My Retrospective The Real Thing. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

I Dream of Genie:
Wisdom in A Bottle

Asset Management and Legacy Transfer are key elements of Emeralda. The businesses in Emeralda Works test ways to communicate to customers the values of these two facets. The goals of Emeralda’s players are to develop knowledge and skill through practices. 874 Words. 2 Pages. ips00701 I Dream of Genie Wisdom in A Bottle. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Raising capital for your enterprise:
Your tangibles

Most people are consumers, not producers. If you are a consumer, you need to learn how producers raise capital to pay out money for their productions. Consumers have a habit of using money from their salary, but producers are not in that habit. 1237 Words. 2 Pages. ips00630 Raising Capital for Your Enterprise. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Lost Treasure:
Discovering My Art Collection

The founder of the company, myartpatron.com, encounters a database he created in 1993 and he since had not reviewed: A documentary list of his art collection, valued at the time at $33,000. He says how unforgettable this experience was-one he almost lost. 1133 Words. 2 Pages. ips00627 Lost Treasure Discovering My Art Collection. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

An Artist’s Legacy Lost:
A Patron Misunderstood

An aging artist views the difference between the fuzzy outlines of his foresight as a young artist’s and the clarity of hindsight. He made a mural in the 1960s which now rots in his father’s back yard, its intellectual capital value greater than tangible. 569 Words. 1 Pages. ips00604 An Artists Legacy Lost A Patron Misunderstood. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Going Insane:
A Vision of Sharing with Classmates

Imagining himself as among the few who understand the work of art in the age of digital communication technologies, the author compares the feeling with that of insane peoples’. He pictures people from his college art classmates and imagines the reaction. 1289 Words. 3 Pages. ips00523 Going Insane A Vision of Sharing. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Artist’s Last Love Letter:
Classmate Remembered, Approximately

In Pokemon, game-players capture strange creatures in an imaginary, prefabricated electronic matrix. In the game, Proximates, a similar activity proceeds, but players capture moments and then compare them with their mates’ moments and their own creations. 5526 Words. 25588 Characters. 34 Pages. ips00511 Artists Last Love Letter Classmates Remembered. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

Why No One Ever Heard of the Gates Prize:
Secrets Revealed

The invention of Emeralda, the games for the gifts of life, led to creation, invention, discovering and imagination reward to be known as a Gates Prize. It is a prize comparable, but unlike, the Pulitzer, Nobel and MacArthur prizes, but measurably unique. 638 Words. 2 Pages. ips00427 Why No One Ever Heard of the Gates Prize. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

If I had $500 Million:
An art professor’s modest proposal for a craft of arts

He’s a retired art professor from the university of Washington, and he dreams of bringing the SS United States—the Big U—to a shipyard west of his Seattle home. He’ll need $500 million to do it, and he thinks of a way by going online and making the money. 1222 Words. 2 Pages. ips00419 If I had 500 Million An Art Professor's Modest Propo. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

New Art Game Rules:
Getting a Legacy Up in Your Domain

He’s rewriting some of the rules of Emeralda, seeing what works with one of today’s online file storage schemes called driveway.com. He draws on a huge library of his art, dating back to the early 1960s, and then comes up with some new rules he can share. 630 Words. 2 Pages. ips00405 New Art Game Rules Getting a Legacy Up in Your Domain. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Library Stories:
Touching the artist’s soul in the new machine

His new art is in a library in Skokie, Illinois. It is a first. The print was born in line with a vision and exhibited on line for other people. Reflecting on his story and libraries, the artist identifies his legacy and soul with one of the new machines. 1062 Words. 5 Pages. ips00404 Library Stories Touching the Artists Soul in the New. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Emeralda Inventor’s Last Love Letter:
To his loving family

In 1992, events occurred that changed this author’s life. One was an article, The Last Love Letter, about financial plights facing survivors after the death of a loved one--one who was a provider of their livelihood. The lessons are reviewed in this essay. 8661 Words. 13 Pages. ips00319 Emeralda Inventors Last Love Letter. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

My Best Art:
“My Father’s Farm”

The artist realizes his new interpretation for one of his artworks and provides a candid commentary on why he thinks, in light of the day, year and decades’ events, that this his best art work. The work is titled My Father’s Farm, an etching made in 1972. 1205 Words. 2 Pages. ips00318 My Best Art My Fathers Farm. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction:
Why I sold my shares in eCollege.com

Concurrent convergence of two streams often reveals a third and then a fourth awareness. Writers, painters, printmakers, sculptors, crafts people and designers are in for a high-flying ride, a bright new and hopeful future, thanks to digital reproduction. 1115 Words. 5326 Characters. 2 Pages. ips00317 Works of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

Arts Uniform Resource E-commerce Locator:
Artist-friendly Technology

An appeal to public and private sectors to join with in the creation of an online standard for artists, crafts people and designer resources on the Net. It is a statewide Community Art School and Museum where, at any time, one can contact creative people. 1614 Words. 3 Pages. ips00309 Arts Uniform Resource E-commerce Locator. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

Class Reunion:
The Over the Hill Gang Revisited

Just before going over a mountain to revisit his alma mater, a retired college professor reviews his goals and then he asks himself if--as the expression goes--he has gone “over the hill.” He invited a classmate, too, then he composed a joke and an essay. 1176 Words. 2 Pages. ips00308 Class Reunion Over the Hill. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

Perfect Solution to an Imperfect Problem
Washington State’s Bright Future for Arts Ed

The author followed the proceedings of his state (Washington) arts commission as they rallied citizens groups and artists for a review and structuring of new policy to set before the governor. Partway through, he wrote this essay based on his observation.1051 Words. 5101 Characters. 2 Pages. ips00305 Perfect Solution to an Imperfect Problem. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

As A Tub Runs Over
Art Ed Online Proprietary Search Engine

Envisioning an online art education channel for Washington, an ITinerate Professor looks at a voluminous, ordered database growing on a public Web site at the start of Y2K. Then he suggests how to use this example of human structural intellectual capital. 2799 Words. 13031 Characters. 5 Pages. ips00216 Vision of Art Education Proprietary Search Engine. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

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1999 Articles

Islands of Temporary Knowledge:
Bridges in cyberspace

To identify, capture, control, and evaluate soft, creative and often intrinsic (or tacit) knowledge, the old mechanical ways do not work. To build an equity account that will serve its owners now and in the future, I am building a great lake of knowledge. 1454 Words. 2 Pages. PS990717 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Pain of death:
A gut-wrenching wake up call

When the computer screen lighted but The Three Sisters' peaks had vanished, it stirred in the author's stomach like pangs of death, a sick feeling one gets sometimes when fear or panic attacks. Images of the wake of a departed artist/colleague awaken him. 1364 Words. 2 Pages. PS990716 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Another risk, another dollar:
Emeralda for Dummies Risk Workbook

Waiting for the telephone to ring can become an economically disastrous habit if you are in the business of inventing a game for the gifts of life. The inventor of Emeralda pursues the principle of concurrent marketing, sales, and development concurrency. 947 Words. 1 Page. PS990715 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Of Silver Bullets, Triage and Emeralda:
Life without disease and the pursuit of Perfect Health in Living to 120

"Invest in labor," said an academic economist, not knowing of what he spoke. "Blow your brains out," said a corporate guru, her meaning of a silver-bullet solution to unsustainable longevity. The artist sees a different path and invents a game to show it. 1682 Words. 2 Pages. PS990714 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Stacking the odds:
Old age is not for dummies

The Bible, a clipping from AARP Nation and a review of books on the economic future of health care are the bases for this essay about using new tools to approach ancient dilemmas. The author plans to live a long life and he uses the natural gifts of life. 2085 Words. 3 Pages. PS990713 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Crash!
How Living to 100 is like a bumper-bender

The writer's 100-year life plan and things that go bump on the road meet again, resulting in a bent bumper plus a thousand-dollar expense. The path of one who chooses cars instead of computers is bound to be more costly in the long run than Emeralda play. 1680 Words. 2 Pages. PS990712 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

On A Golden Horizon:
Paralysis by analysis

An academic view of healthcare education at institutions of higher learning discovers an irony of outsider's attempt to understand why analysis is out of fashion in the US. The author likes an inside-out approach using new technology for dental education. 607 Words. 2818 2 Pages. PS990518 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Getting there from here:
Worth and paper

Getting there from here is the purpose of the author's presentations to people in health sciences and the arts. Introducing the MFA certificate, he means Multi Faceted Auxiliary, explaining the background of a new approach to art and technology education. 612 Words. 1 Page. PS990517 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Old Wood and Good Fruit:
Grafting and planting new orchards

A farm boy at heart, the author looks ahead on his 4th day at Perfect Studios and envisions a new orchard as ten trees standing alongside his old ones. The new one is for the next fifty years; the old one stands for the last. EarthSafe 2029 is the reason. 1578 Words. 2 Pages. PS990516 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Labor vision:
Laboring for yourself

Emeralda--a game for the gifts of life--is a blend of chess and solitaire. Board games and card games help people understand how to invest in themselves using new information and telecommunications technologies. Cooperation is a keyword that changes them. 1110 Words. 4906 Characters. 3 Pages. PS990515 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The Importance of Trees:
Logon and alogon dialog

Learning the 20 Century computer memory management systems required that one follow a logical tree structure. Avoiding logic had its advantages, however, as one could conceal one's soul from the prying eyes of fools. "You can not speak it" is a good rule. 486 Words. 1 Page. PS990514 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Networks, computers and you:
Getting there, being there, staying there

A Dentalisco builder plans to speak to a Dental Assistant organization about information technology and the development of new employment opportunities in dental practices. He says there is are crises and opportunities, and it's like swimming not sinking. 942 Words. 2 Pages. PS990513 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Disaster sale!
The quiet way to Ritchie's Hours

He gambled, invested in labor, as in Human Structural Intellectual Capital. He put over four months in ways to make himself known among other potential investors whom he felt most likely will succeed in Emeralda play. Win/win games pay, but at what costs? 321 Words. 1 Page. PS990315 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Welcome to my world:
Emeralda Inventor's Real Fantasy

The inventor of the game, Emeralda, describes how his world looks from his perspective as he enters other peoples' worlds. Three peaks in the Emeralda Region are derived from mountains he grew up with, but in another way as seen through the art of prints. 514 Words. 1 Page. PS990314 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Multi-level marketing and Score sheets:
Gates to economic engineering in the arts

On-line communications opens new kinds of economic engineering principles, like investing in securities, legacy transfer and asset management. It loops us back to the artist's day to day participation in his or her communities of practice and art selling. 1405 Words. 2 Pages. PS990115 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Reinventing the Four Freedoms:
Soap bubbles and economics of cooperation

What is the connection between soap bubbles and the national economy? This writer sees it in the concept of the sovereign individual, like when metallurgist Sir Cyril Burt saw relations between molecular behavior and works of art. Freedom is the keystone. 365 Words. 1 Page. PS990114 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

1998 Articles

A Little ROI Mislaid:
Return-on-Investment for the Inventor

For an analysis of the mathematics for Emeralda's Remuneration Plan, the game's inventor takes a back-chaining approach. The author himself received $300, then he reflects on the events that brought the money to him. Then, he discovers the link to assets. 1088 Words. 2 Pages. PS980116 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

A simple strategy:
Restoring the SS United States

Proposal based on economics of Quality Managed Legacy Transfer Global Enterprise, principle activity long-term investing consumer services (healthcare, education, transportation) a stock basis in human structural intellectual capital of older populations. 669 Words. 2 Pages. PS980906 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

ArtsPort Investment:
An invitation to build

First draft for promotional literature text advertising a virtual community called ArtsPort--an on-line artists asset management system. It is highly effective and differentiated by a friendly, challenging interface that works like a game on the Internet. 350 Words. 1 Page. PS980608 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Birth of Emeralda 24:
Emeralda for Dummies

How Emeralda 24 was created from a suggestion made by Brian Tracy. 194 Words. 1 Page. PS980628 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Doing the math:
Bonnie's Prize

A cooking contest's million-dollar prize is not all it is cooked up to be, seen in the perspective of the author of this story. His opinion is that they short-serve the creative individual. He thinks, when it comes to prizes, is Emeralda is a better one. 1522 Words. 2 Pages. PS980218 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda Lexicon:
How Emeralda Got Its Name

A collection of copyrighted documents and articles from the Seattle Times that include the newspaper "contest" that led to the author's naming of Emeralda--the fantasy region of the inventor's game--plus it charts the developing of its roots in economics. 8610 Words. 12 Pages. PS980529 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda Plot:
From the horse's mouth

For the first time the Inventor of Emeralda--the Game for the Gifts of Life--tells a story behind this on-line interactive cooperative game. He introduces the game's characters and gives readers a glimpse into the ideas that tell how he invented its name. 884 Words. 1 Page. PS980118 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Fact or Fiction?
You can't feel information

Reading e-mail is a daily routine for an Emeralda Master--and not much liked. Digital information volume and complexity are building up, like the dust on his printmaking tools. He compares e-mail content as it is today to what this could be in the future. 1131 Words. 2 Pages. PS980114 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Fantasy in DISCO-OP Land:
What they didn't teach you in dental school

After a month of thinking about a dental internet service cooperative, the founder imagines a lecture he wants to present to potential members and air some observations he gathered so far. 856 Words. 1 Page. PS980115. ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

First day of Spring:
Testing the waters

Inserting new source code into the Perfect Studios Zine is like a game of blind man's bluff to the Apprentice User, working alone in Cell C3, the Cell of the Avatar. One wrong digit and the thing wouldn't work, but who would know? Gone is the old teacher. 528 Words. 1 Page. PS980320 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

How I invented Emeralda:
Attacks of the jeering squad

Part VI of Emeralda for Dummies. Every day for a year the inventor used the Score sheet as if it already existed. His thinking, practical, conscious mind was laughing inside. It was like a jeering squad chanting, "There IS no Emeralda Score sheet, dummy!" 1690 Words. 2 Pages. PS980916 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Idea and Idealism:
View through Emeralda's screen

Suddenly, a cascading idea, before the Emeralda Inventor begins his daily Score sheet, he glimpses the ideal screen that will meet him in a future iteration of Emeralda. The screen, he says, will be a perfect window, a view overlooking today's Ideal Isle. 496 Words. 1 Page. PS981115 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Inventor at Work and Play:
Documentary photo puzzle creation

A long-time co-conspirator in off-the-beaten-path art, C. T. Chew, planned to create portraits of artists using his computerized studio. 317 Words. 1 Page. PS980618 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Legacy Transfer at Perfect Studios:
Selling articles on the Web

On the threshold of another gateway to artists' Internet commerce techniques, the author remembers one reason from his early years and why the Internet is a better way for artists and scholars alike to disseminate the products of their labor and thoughts. 937 Words. 1 Page. PS980228 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Machiavelli's mistake:
The mistaken case of legacy transfer

The author is experimenting with Netplay--a method he concocted by blending World Wide Web hypertext markup language (HTML) with the forms of screenplay writing for movies and television. His subject is a pivotal meeting between two 16th Century thinkers. 3088 Words. PS980827 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Need to know:
When and where know-how and know-why converge

An expatriate professor, headed for the Internet World Wide Web beach to do some surfing on the Web, explains how "need to know" is making waves around the realm of global intellectual capital. 753 Words. 1 Page. PS980817 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

On the way to PT509:
A virtual community discussion on editionable assets

Playing Emeralda Virtual Tours, the Author visualizes a trip to a nearby Puget Sound Resort called Port Townsend, where a printmaking workshop is scheduled in the real world. The text is grabbed from a virtual community discussion and mined for its value. 1819 Words. 2 Pages. PS980509 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Pop Quiz:
Emeralda Games Works Test

Looking back from the tenth month, the author is seized by a desire to form a Test Group for Emeralda--but how? A Vision from the first day of October suggests the old "Fish Bowl" approach and he is returned to his first Stay Residency at Perfect Studios. 306 Words. 1 Page. PS980117 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Printmaker's Life Value Calculator:
Part II

Raw data from the Emeralda Player's PDA streams into a score sheet in the third column called "HSIC" and from here it may be drawn into an account. The metaphor from past times is the Life Value equivalent, created by the old-time life insurance model. 1130 Words. 2 Pages. PS980728 ©Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Q&A from Perfect Studios Agents:
Interview of the Emeralda inventor

Agents at Perfect Studios interview the Emeralda Inventor, asking for his definitions of Legacy Transfer, to explain how patents apply, view his photos of former students in schools-then-and-now, and offer suggestions as to how people could start playing. 6954 Words. 11 Pages. PS981016 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Reading, playing, printmaking:
Towards global languages

Ascending from the tangible, cold dead ink of the printmaking world of yesterday to the new, global language of the Living Prints, the author speculates on the relationships of sound, through the art of music and reading, to playful states and creativity. 1634 Words. 2 Pages. PS980519 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Real World of Emeralda:
Where in the World Wide Web is Ritchie?

Analysis of the Cells and how they affect Emeralda's inventor's remuneration plan takes a back-chaining approach. The inventor receives $350,000 and then reflects on the events that brought the money to him. 1027 Words. 2 Pages. PS980708. ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Risk Management:
An Overview for Emerging Artists

Insurance for an individual artist, crafts person or designer is not as obtainable as the forms that a commercial business organization can access. Risk for a business can be avoided, retained or transferred. The author copy-wrote the essay by an insurer. 2511 Words. 5 Pages. PS981105 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Search for the Parable of the Canon:
Cybernetics coming full circle

The canon, or the round, in music has been a pervasive concept in this author's mind since he first watched a work of his visual art become transformed by two external forces and become something greater than the sum of the parts: The first video artwork. 1517 Words. 2 Pages. PS981006 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

True North:
Request for Proposals

The Emeralda Inventor, contemplating making a painting or large graphic of the Emeralda Region Master Map, wants first to ascertain that the angles of its triangle borders are correctly reflected in the ten maps of the Islands of the Domains-of-Expertise. 1129 Words. 2 Pages. PS980119 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Unlocking the Gates of Beauty:
Emeralda's conception

Part XIV of Emeralda for Dummies. An introduction to the history of Emeralda, comparable to returning to ancient days in the arts before art became a product for consumption. The author compares it to unlocking the gates to a new world, a greener pasture. 1395 Words. 2 Pages. PS980926 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

What Emeralda does for you:
Improving your world game

Asked to describe Emeralda in a really basic way, the inventor compares it to making a molehill out of a mountain. Ironic, because his game is intended for this: Shrinking a person's human structural intellectual capital into a byte-sized lifestyle world. 787 Words. 1 Page. PS980807 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Whining and dining:
Dinner with my complaints

Like in the movie, My Dinner with Andre, the author pictures his dilemma as the writer who must manage his own articles anthology. Live on-line publishing adds responsibilities to the author's burden, but the Emeralda Master does not complain nor explain. 1067 Words. 2 Pages. PS980208 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Your Community as a Resource:
First entry into Community Association Institute News

The author moved to a condominium. He says there's more to it than people think in what it affords as opportunities for new telecommunications technologies to improve community relationships and experience. These can be adapted to intentional communities. 673 Words. 1 Page. PS980310 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1997 Essays

Heart and head:
Revising Jefferson

Approximately two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson was living in Paris. He was smitten with affection for a lady. She was married to another man. Much is known about their relationship, thanks to Jefferson's copious writings. My source of information is a book by Mapp. As Mapp describes Jefferson's dilemma regarding this lady, he draws upon Jefferson's own words in an essay called "Heart and head." 1490 Words. 3 Pages. ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. PS971105.

New Types of Relationships:
Avenues and Gateways

Using the new artworks technologies and considering the changing arts' audiences and their expectations, not to mention changing demographic, has given artists, crafts people and designers new options. Some are using their creative insights to examine how they can fulfill their long-term strategies by completely revising the way they are organized. Hence the rise of the reinvented arts studios. 1604 Words. 3 Pages. ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. PS971001.

Magister Emeralda:
The Living Prints, and Jimmy

The author dictated this to his computer while actually entering data called Cascades into Microsoft Access. He owns 1473 Cascades at the moment of this session. In the same way that people have different fingerprints, retina prints, DNA and unique personalities, Cascades are unique and useful to him alone. He tells his story to a drop-in visitor, and demonstrates. 2008 Words. 4 Pages. PS970621. © 1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

While you were sleeping:
Your children as booty

The next day after visiting GameWorks, the author (who considers himself an arts education reform activist) realizes that the use of e-mail is a kind of indicator to compare the use of new information and telecommunications technology, and it is an economic indicator also. 558 Words. 1 Pages. PS970319 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The two “I” words:
Intellect and impediment

The word intellectual is not a favorite among all people, but some people have a liking for it. The word impediment, also, is a word that has a negative connotation as viewed by some people. In the practices of resource development--especially human resources--these two words mean opposite things according to this article, which is about capital investment of the human kind. 2722 Words. 5 Pages. PS970311 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1996 Essays

Restoring family paintings:
Interview with Tom Blue

Tom Blue, principal at Plasteel Frames, occasionally cleans the surfaces of oil paintings but he recommends owners of such works study the risks, the pluses and minuses of restoration before taking steps in this important process. He was recorded explaining the process to Bill Ritchie. 5407 Words. 7 Pages. PS961122 ©1996 Tom Blue

Cyber Managing:
The Electronic Publicist

Part of a series like job descriptions for the perfect cybernetic art studios, introducing Susan Frank, EP. (Article incomplete) 498 Words. 1 Page. PS961118 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

What is ESN, anyway?
Getting to the core issues

The author, a “pre-boomer” because he was born ahead of the baby-boom curve, contemplates the media’s use of old people in Halloween advertising and thinks about the need to change the implication of aging from fear to wisdom. (Unfinished article) 658 Words. 2 Pages. PS961101 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Why printmaking is the best investment:
The derivative arts win every time

Games of chance, the stock market, smart cards and the dynamics of reinventing retailing are today’s diversity factors in the artist’s portfolio and bag of tricks. 2681 Words. 5 Pages. PS961022 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect Day, Perfect Studios:
Assessing an artist’s assets

A Gruddite Apprentice-User is examined by an assessor who asks how a day at Perfect Studios is spent. He starts with PE, Spanish language and concludes with an open-ended conundrum. 2444 Words. 4 Pages. PS961019 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Co-operative Games:
Artists going back to basics

A model for a co-operative for artists, crafts people and designers is considered in the light of new developments in communications technology. The World Wide Web may have valuable new functions that will benefit creative peoples’ economic and social sustenance. 3866 Words. 7 Pages. PS961011 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Contemporary Printmaking in the Northwest:
One artist’s viewpoint

Author Lois Allan (Contemporary Art in the Northwest) asked for a paragraph on prints I offered for her forthcoming book. This is the first draft at my first, second and third attempt. 1960 Words. 4 Pages. PS961004 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. Full Text.

When failures are successful:
The best long-term investment is labor

How does a failure portend success in investing? This is the story of a struggle by a tenured professor who, when forced out of his classroom and into the real world, found a greater success path opening up both as a professor and wisdom-boomer to boot. 3742 Words. 6 Pages. PS960820. ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The qualified candidate:
He shall . . ..

As an unaffiliated boomer enumerates characteristics that will ensure life-long earning ability--(1) Skills, (2) Memory and (3) Language. I get a surprise visit from phantoms in my computer. 2126 Words. 4 Pages. PS960401 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

A Day at Perfect Studios:
Blue Monday in the Domain of Expertise

The tour of the artist’s Lake of the Domains of Expertise in its second week, a Monday for confronting the problems of identifying, evaluating, controlling and distributing the human sustainable intellectual capital of creative persons. Excerpt from reinventing arts’ studios. 2118 Words. 3 Pages. PS960317. ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Artist Beware:
Reasons you may fail

What is the prescription for success in art? It helps to look at the prescription for business and industry: Think and Grow Rich wrote one person, enamored of Andrew Carnegie. This essay is derived from him. 1804 Words. 2 Pages. PS960229 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. (See related essay below, "Fifty-four reasons artists fail")

Structural Intellectual Capital in the free fine arts:
Running money in the reinvented arts studio

My road ahead will be running money, arching over canyons of confusion, pitfalls of the past and unfulfilled dreams. Bridges I build with running money--Structural Intellectual Capital--and I will leave them standing after I have used them and gone on. 3911 Words. 5 Pages. 186 Min. PS960226 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

My road ahead:
A wilderness of lives

My road is like traveling on a path that is always under construction or being rediscovered in the underbrush of a wildnerness of lives. 1102 Words. 2 Pages. PS960224 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Fifty-four reasons artists fail:
From bad beginnings to slow exits
(Article in progress)

Based on Napoleon Hill's 31 causes of failure in business, these are true, also, of artists, crafts people and designers. The 23 reasons added to Hill's span the four dimensions of the human spirit. 594 Words. 2 Pages. PS960212. ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1995 Essays

Blood Simple Business:
Fear and the Wisdom Boom

A short statement on the purpose behind investing in the “fourth leg” of the traditional 3-legged stool for financial and old age security: Savings, Retirement and Secure properties. The author is a recipient of retirement benefits, looking to the future. 329 Words. 1729 Characters. 1 Page. ps951211 Blood Simple Business-Fear and the Wisdom Boom. ©1995 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Able:
The root word of Tech Corps Washington

The Tech Corps Washington Volunteer is screened and qualified to enter in the service of K-12 education. Ability is the key to the success of their work, but there much more to being able than most people think. 1821 Words. 9196 Characters. 4 Pages. ps951206 Able-The root word of Tech Corps Washington. ©1995 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

In An Embarrassment of Ritchie's:
The Four Ideas (According to Blotnick)

A remark by an investment counselor about intangible assets--ideas that can make a person wealthy--causes the author to focus on his year's best. 282 Words. 1 Page. Edit Time: 38 Min. PS951003. ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

What is a Web Master?
Perfect Studios defines a new job

Curious about the word, Perfect Studios' founder Bill Ritchie defines the new job title, WebMaster according to the latest developments in the World Wide Web on the Internet. 431 Words. 1 Page. PS950929 ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Reunioneering Communications:
What is IT?

The ESN Adopt-A-School project—a project that died on the vine—was dreamed up during the first part of the author’s search for ways to restore the cultural values of high school reunions. Doing IT--Information Technology—had a central principle called RC. 522 Words. 2711 Characters. 1 Page. ps950920 Reunioneering Communications-What is IT. ©1995 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Asset Management in the Age of Electronic Communication:
The P-Word in TRPI

Oil paintings from a turn-of-the-century “woman of the west” come under consideration by an investment club, but not as investments. They open a gateway to an interesting lesson about the way people put their money “to work” for them or against themselves and other people. 1913 Words. 9441 Characters. 3 Pages. ps950706 Asset Management in the Age of Digital Communication. ©1995 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How do I love the WSA?
Let me count the ways

An ITinerate Professor of art reflects on the first ten years of his acquaintance with the Washington Software Association and thinks about the current advantages of being a member and its new initiative, the Digital Media Alliance. 1265 Words. 3 Pages. PS950610 ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Problem and benefit:
The two dimensions of behavior

We strive to manage ourselves. We need to manage our practice. Perfect Studios is about managing our practices, or practice management. Here is one artist's plan of action. 964 Words. 4747 Characters. 3 Pages. ps950519 Problem and Benefit-The 2 dimensions of behavior. ©1995 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Covey's quadrants and cyber art:
How to define by urgency

How is cyberart defined? The author says we must first decide whether urgency or importance exists and this decision must precede the definition. He based this essay on Stephen R. Covey's book, Seven habits of highly effective people. 3027 Words. 6 Pages. PS950409 ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1994 Essays

Fork in the road:
The new model for education

Part two of an essay that was inspired by reading about the University of Waterloo and its successful application of the principles of co-operation between academia and business. 1285 Words. 4 Pages. PS941227 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Fork in the road:
Artist or Professor?

What are the best options the author has: To be an artist or be a professor? Looking back, he feels qualified to be either one, or both at once. Economically speaking, though, the options may be branching. 1831 Words. 4 Pages. PS941222 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

WSA/DMA and Kurumaki Kobo:
Juxtaposing print and digital media

Washington state's Digital Media Alliance is still in the formative stages, but one artist/entrepreneur sees it as part of a world-wide trend. He writes about the physical juxtapositioning of of arts and industry work places. 1960 Words. 3 Pages. PS940829 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Guide to RINC:
Welcome to Ritchie's, Inc.

When artists look for more effective ways to run their work places and studios, they begin to use tried-and-true methods of business. How far this can go is anyone's guess. This one has entered the digital world of computers--all the way. 1629 Words. 3 Pages. PS940821 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Preservation in the Age of Electronic Reproduction:
Redefining progress and ecological economics

In Washington State, with its dramatic developments in hi-tech, preservation is still a young industry; but its software makes a powerful new way for preservationists to grow in their sustaining mission. 625 Words. 2 Pages. PS940624 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Tenure in the real world:
Beyond virtual reality

Read in the AARP Bulletin: "The corporate down-sizing of the past decade turned the work place into a roller coaster for many middle-aged employees. What happened?" After retirement, this one realizes he has earned tenure in the real world. 2874 Words. 4 Pages. PS940510 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Magalogs reviewed:
Magalogs from ITinerate Professors

ITinerate Professors can have their essays written and stored as electronic databases maintained by themselves. They format them as Magalogs. Periodically, professors update their own collections, going against the old closure principle. 1714 Words. 3 Pages. PS940507 ©1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Moving ToolBooks:
Memory lane off the data highway

Unless you are in a hurry, moving day is fun, a chance to dig into storage you would not otherwise think about. Moving files from a computer hard-drive to diskettes, likewise, can be a nostalgic experience; software triggers memory of past projects. 805 Words. 2 Pages. PS940503 ©1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Retired Professors' knitting:
Capitalizing on Information Technology

ITinerate Professor rank awaits professors who, after a generation in institutions, want to reform teaching, research and practice. The IT is capitalized to signify Information Technology, as IT is the key to reinvention of the university. 887 Words. 2 Pages. PS940418 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Ghosts in the new schools:
Browser-ghostbusters coming!

People in the schools themselves are divided, partly because the dead hand of the past cannot grasp the future and partly because there is no editor from the future that can produce a text, book or other form. 1725 Words. 3 Pages. PS940329 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

CAUTION: FAKE FAKE FAKE FAKE:
BEFORE YOU ORDER, CHECK THE DATE

Fake announcement: Microsoft Intros Fine Prints Software For Children. Mr. Living Prints® forecasts that Microsoft will introduce a fine print product in its Microsoft at Home series. The program is sure to be a winner, since there are more collectors of prints than of any other art form. 517 Words. 1 Page. PS940322 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Search for Living Prints®:
When archives take on another life

The author gave more life to his art by also working with new electronic media such as video. Print making was the first fine art technique he found more lively. He offers other people opportunities do the same using the data superhighway. 1932 Words. 3 Pages. PS940313 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Virtual glue for art projects:
Artist calls for education action

Artists, crafts people and designers can provide so much more to society and industry today, now that they are equipping their studios with new technology. The schools need help to keep up. What can be done to improve communications today? 1235 Words. 2 Pages. PS940121 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Farewell, Kodak:
One student's fantastic sojourn

A fictional student report of what it would be like to go to Kodak's Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. The Center was positioned to be the leader in using computers in art, but this essay warns of a shortcomings in their approach. 1120 Words. 3 Pages. PS940119 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Clay, bricks and virtual museums:
Potter turns into 'puter artist

The original museum is one's self; you can't take the museum out of the crafts person, though you may take the crafts person out of the museum. A potter-cum-'puter artist, feels cold, wet clay envelopes the roots of his multimedia philosophy. 1600 Words. 3 Pages. PS940107 © 1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1993 Essays

Screen saver:
Interface of real and virtuous worlds

The screen-saver resembles the urge to preserve something, the author says, which is an urge for permanence in an impermanent world. 347 Words. 1 Page. PS931129. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

ITinerate Professor dumps UW records:
Tenure in the real world

After eight years storing files on his UW years, Professor Ritchie dumped them in November, 1993. He poured boxes of student records, grievances and grant proposals, curricula and research. As it went in he said, Good riddance, it was in my way! 1358 Words. 2 Pages. PS931118. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Ideas for Franklin Arts Foundation:
Better then selling candy?

When Franklin High School art teachers announced a new approach to fund raising, the author offered them his inventory of books, saying, It's better than selling candy! 210 Words. 1 Page. PS931115. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Cooperative ventures and data highways:
How computers are making it happen

A shortened version about a new medium, partly dependent on computer education today, that will stand next to traditional forms the way tomorrow's cooperatives stand next to corporations. They put economics lessons in reinventing studios. 1128 Words. 3 Pages. PS931110. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Cooperative ventures and data highways:
How computers are making it happen

A new medium, partly dependent on computer education today, will stand next to traditional forms the way tomorrow's cooperatives stand next to corporations. They put economics lessons in reinventing studios for arts, crafts and design. Economics is the keystone in building gates to practitioners' knowledge bases. These are tomorrow's Perfect Studios. 1113 Words. 3 Pages. PS931109 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Cornerstone proposal:
Background for an electronic bookstore

The author appeals to a builder. The commercial space afforded an opportunity to create a new kind of bookstore, featuring CD/Multimedia. Idea No. 1: E'Books - a book store of nothing but books on and in electronic publishing. 428 Words. 2 Pages. PS931103. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

LUXury economics:
Basis for reinventing arts' studios

Adam Smith, father of the US constitution's economic philosophy (capitalism) made a mistake--according to Kenneth Lux. Lux, an economist and professor, said Smith left a word out of a paragraph, and this is the flaw that led to disorder in US society. 1248 Words. 3 Pages. PS930914. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect Studios' Earthsafe 2022 program:
The Namta Disc solution

Promoting new technologies to mature markets is a challange. The wisdom of years keeps older artists, crafts persons and designers away from computers. This essay describes a registration idea that allows people to study and contribute to the course. 388 Words. 1 Page. PS930813. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect Studios Re-phrased:
Restoring cultural values

The basic philosophy for Perfect Studios is simple: Knowing about people, knowing about technology, and knowing about dreams. 927 Words. 2 Pages. PS930727. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The Job I want (Back):
From business to pea-picker and back again

You create the job you want rather than search for existing jobs. Think deeply about what you want to do, gather information on how a business could do it and then design a hiring proposal. EarthSafe 2022 is the background of this strategy. 550 Words. 2 Pages. PS930719. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video letter for ARN/EPP:
Promoting information technology for growth

These times should be boom years for mature education organizations since national attention is turned on education in the US. The author sent a video letter promoting a new marketing techniques made possible by electronic technologies. 1107 Words. 2 Pages. PS930707 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

An EarthSafe 2022 Model to Watch:
Models and concurrent marketing

Things have changed in the art class room. No longer can we be content to draw in the traditional ways. Of course, many schools still teach the same way they did for generations, but here is a new and unusual proposal: Base art education on printmaking. 921 Words. 2 Pages. PS930706. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

TRP Investment:
Getting a handle on the times

People who are looking for future security have an interest in stocks, mutual funds and bonds. TRP Investment Club is one way individuals can learn about stocks the author hopes will be like thousands of teaching/research/production clubs. 2163 Words. 3 Pages. PS930701. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Trends in CD Multimedia publishing:
Good news to edu-tainers

Conventional thinking about CD-multimedia , e.g., that video and computer games are the leaders, is untrue, according to a profile in 1993. Loudest, but not the fastest-growing. It is good news to educators with electronic publishing designs. 1658 Words. 6 Pages. PS930630. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Three-D Business Plan:
Going beyond the flat world

A problem in business plans is the lack of bridges between 3rd and 4th dimension. Time seems incorporated, yet most business plans miss linking the flat-world of traditional plans and a virtuous reality. Here is a technological aid in 3-D planning. 1453 Words. 3 Pages. PS930628. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Morning cascades:
Rules of three

The ideas flow and tumble to the fore the minute I go from dreams to waking. If I lie abed, they pass in my mind like marchers at a demonstration, each carrying signs. Sometimes they are linked ideas, sometimes not. They are the morning cascades. 968 Words. 2 Pages. PS930627 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

End of the wave:
Maybe it's time to change heroes

The author never wanted to retire, but he still has not founda company with which he wants to tie nor one that will hire him. He is like many mature people today between the waves of yesterday and tomorrow. Reading a rejection, he captures the moment. 976 Words. 2 Pages. PS930626. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Glossary of an electronic kind:
Guide to Perfect Studios' universe

A selection of terms and special words that are cademic markers on the locus of beauty. The author invented a kind of studio on a hard-drive, and even a road test hold the possibility of getting lost on the wide data highway for which it is designed. 415 Words. 1 Page. PS930625. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Job Worth:
Forecasting the ITinerate Professor's wage

Calculating the ITinerate Professor's salary in the age of electronic reproduction will be determined by prime skills and capacity to create work. Proposal. 237 1 Pages. PS930621. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

ITinerate Professor races on:
The digital data highway basic soapbox derby

Software box derbies started when there were roads to run them on - the data highways. Now the question is, What does a software box - a toy for racing the imaginary data highway - look like? This ITinerate Professor thinks he knows. (Proposal) 186 Words. 1 Page. PS930606. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Calling all cards:
Credit cards, that is

Your ITinerate professor is thinking about credits, credits when you attend school--and, now, a new credit-line. The new credit line is in the form of edutainment, a clever way of wrapping continuing education in an entertaining multimedia wrapper. 1500 Words. 2 Pages. PS930603 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Job Creative:
Why RINC is a job-creative corporation

It is not practical to expect an art, craft or design expert to learn the Perfect Studios way. To get their work into the trillion-dollar global market place you need the know what takes a K-12 student months to learn. Motivation is part of the problem. 680 1 Pages. PS930523. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Likes attract, fears connect:
Setting the screen for artists' dynasets

We at last reached a stage in reinventing art studios when it is time to perform. Our world is our stage. Now we have to choose our platform. We live in the platform-independent era, and the decision is not fear-driven, but beauty-attractive. 693 Words. 1 Page. PS930501. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Demons for confidence:
Tempting the database

Searching for a demon, e.g., the element in an expert system that searches for best-guesses, a confidence factor is needed for the user to measure the value of the way time and resources are being spent. Shown are the first results in table form. 771 Words. 4 Pages. PS930430. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Rating:
Your own game of choice

At an amusement park I found a wonderful game where you hammer down creatures' heads as they pop up holes in the table. So too with ideas. The creative person has a game, but it is ideas, not creatures, popping up. How do you decide the idea to hit? 1579 Words. 3 Pages. PS930428. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Portfolio assessment:
Proposal for a new seminar

We can learn a little from Bill Gates' art-to-the-home ideas, and the experience at the Seattle Art Museum. Welcome to the beginning of the 21st Century, when self-reliance is the key to the museum and artists' perfect studios. (Proposal & Outline) 357 Words. 1 Page. PS930417. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Online arts academics:
The future of art education

Reinventing arts' studios requires a new way of looking at space. After years of being confined to the studio, classroom and campus give way to a vision long-held by some creative artists and scholars. Their expertise now has a less-confining future. 410 Words. 1 Page. PS930409. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Stamp Drawing Shop:
Rubbish and revelation

The word, stamps, means different things to different people. What is commonly accepted is their association with authenticity. In the age of electronic reproduction, however, the old rules do not work. This author looks for a new paradigm. 1307 Words. 2 Pages. PS930404. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Be your own shrink:
The silicon interview

Midway through a typical morning in front of his Perfect Studio, the computer nut visits his shrink. This is the dialog, in the form of self-talk, in answer to when the Silicon Shrink wonders, What are you doing to eliminate problem behavior? 732 Words. 2 Pages. PS930227. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Resume for EarthSafe 2022:
Writing it right

Historically, the resume has been the calling card, the general approach to getting a job. The turbulent economics and trade scene of the early 'Nineties makes a difference in the way to create an effective resume. Here are some pointers. 1303 Words. 2 Pages. PS930225. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Expert Systems, Living Prints and Art Estates:
Prologue to an artist's last love letter

Retrieval strategies for archival text, images and sound improve with the use of expert systems. Employed across a wide range of domains such as chemistry, space exploration and fast food, expert systems, a branch of applied computer science, can also improve access to the domains of artists, crafts people and designers. Can these individual experts independently assess the tangible value of their assets then improve access to their legacy? Can the vitality of their works, their teaching and discoveries be retrieved in their Golden Age? Applying information technology (IT) to an individual's domain of expertise, the author describes a hypothetical expert system for a print making teacher, researcher and producer. He suggests a digital "last love letter," including a counterpart hypermedia version. He created a prototype using Asymetrix' ToolBook®, a love letter in words and pictures with an IBM-compatible PC. 7182 Words. 13 Pages. PS930208 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Presentation principles:
Financing Perfect Studios

The author learned something about himself mastering the pursuit of what he calls The locus of beauty and economic bases he built upon. There was a paradigm shift. A new kind of presentation comes to the mind of the creative person and the technician. 798 1 Pages. PS930110. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Linking livelihood to productivity:
The Reinvented Arts Studio

After learning The Art of Selling Art the artist, crafts person and designer moves to the Perfect Studio. By analyzing the factory model, moving toward interdependence and alliances, he or she finds new customers and is better able to produce new work. 657 Words. 2 Pages. PS930105. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Beginning of the End:
The heart and mind go out of IT

Hundreds and thousands of knowledge workers are laid-off. If you follow the history of automation, it's like imagining yourself going to a funeral - of a dear one - three, five, or thirty years from now. This essay suggests IT has run its course. 1516 Words. 3 Pages. PS930101 © 1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1992 Essays

Confessions of a computer nut:
Artist in the age of electronic reproduction

Despite what people think an artist, craftsperson or designer does in his or her studio, in reality they spend a lot of time using a computer instead of the traditional tools of their art and craft. This is the revelation of one artist/writer, anyway. 2259 Words. 4 Pages. PS921222. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Information Technology Alliances:
The problem-eaters

Information Technology Alliances can eat away at problems technology can help remove. Here a list by the author and, opposite, how he suggests solving them. An alliance is the vision: Educational organizations work with IT industries for mutual gain. 1053 Words. 3 Pages. PS921127. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

PS R Better:
Perfect Studios ARE better studios

Perfect Studios are better studios because of they are holistic, ecological, developmental and people-based. These are explained, plus buying into Perfect Studios is the first step toward enabling artists' in the mission for a Safe Earth. 1388 Words. 3 Pages. PS921123. ©1994 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Script writing Perfect Studios:
Readying for the work-group era

This essay is in the style of an artist's self-talk analysis, an inner dialog, where the artist and the interviewer are one. This is script-writing in the time-machine sense, with the artist/writer acting as one, at once, three years from today. 2596 Words. 5 Pages. PS921102. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Changing the playing field:
Education is a whole new game

The meeting known as the MIT Forum gave a second look the an education-oriented business. How much 1990 advice did software publishing house owner, Joe Clark (VideoDiscovery) take to heart and apply to his business? What advice is new? 2029 Words. 4 Pages. PS921022. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Magic of art and technology:
Hazards of the stage

ArtStudent: World-class innovation was a working title of a workshop at the College Art Association meeting in Seattle, 1993. The author, one of the speakers, explains the title and the purpose of the workshop from his viewpoint. 416 Words. 1 Page. PS921019. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Grafting Perfect Studios:
A new logic to tree-building

Starting a new element of Perfect Studios gives you an opportunity to see how the concept works. Reinventing the art studio took seven years. The test driving stage includes grafting new wood on to old, as explained here. 1862 Words. 3 Pages. PS920902. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Habit Five and Ritchie's Perfect Studios:
Adapting expert advice

The practice management software of Ritchie's Perfect Studios resembles Stephen Covey's 5th Habit in the way that character comes with serial or sequential growth. 364 1 Pages. PS920831. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

CD-I Publishers' Club:
Pioneer apprentice investing

How do you start a new title in compact disc interactive, or CD-I? One way is to build a model on another activity - investment clubs. This is the bridge between today's reality and promise of new productions in CD-multimedia titles. 2149 Words. 4 Pages. PS920807. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Creativity broker:
Paramutual betting meets real estate mortgage broker

Concept for an essay to compare race horses and artists inspired by comparing real estate brokers and race-horse owners. 188 1 Pages. PS920805. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Expert Systems, Living Prints and Art Estates:
The sequel and emerging technologies

The sequel to an essay on improved museum and library access and how expert systems will help. As the topic grows, these are the other factors that enter into it, such as emerging technologies 2628 Words. 5 Pages. PS920703. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Expert Systems, Living Prints and Art Estates:
An improved retrieval strategy

Expert systems could improve retrieval strategies for museum and archival multimedia information. The author illustrates how to exploit digital images and sounds on a multimedia PC with a hypothetical expert system for print making knowledge experts. 2966 Words. 8 Pages. PS920702. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Expertise for sale:
Living Prints born again

A multimedia artist continues the long journey from fine art print making to computer graphics. Seven years' work is ready to take to market, and what has been a virtual reality experience is, thanks to multimedia, turning into reality with new machines. 2659 Words. 4 Pages. PS920619. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Leading dog stories:
Pointers to the locus of beauty

How to get an agent's attention when writers are sending inquiries by the sackful? Only writing which is for multimedia would be useful now. This text could be included with a form letter to writers' agents, plus a sample and book proposal. 1101 Words. 2 Pages. PS920603. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Strategies in May:
Studio schemes by the sackfull

Strategic marketing ideas are a'popping. Direct mail essay DisKits to magazines and newsletters, publishers of CD-multimedia titles and writers'agents. The project, Reinventing Arts Studios, requires help from both sides of tradition and technology. 491 Words. 2 Pages. PS920524. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Confessions of a closet economist:
Know enough to get in trouble

Talk about economic trends and famous economic theorists picque the information technology person's interest if he or she can connect it with getting a job doing what they most love to do: Play with high-tech toys. 980 Words. 3 Pages. PS920506. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Masters and fools:
Being your own B.O.S.S.

Possibly the information age will see the revision of the old addage to Who seeks a Master is a Fool. This essay follows years of experimenting with a tool called by its manufacturer, the B.O.S.S., a palm-top electronic notebook similar to a computer. 1087 Words. 2 Pages. PS920426. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Bean-counter:
Maligned groups arise!

Scanning electronic bulletin boards for trends, vectors of entities, directions, forces carried and probable outcomes, bean counters are gaining respect. In the age of the illusion of calculation he or she is the vice regent to the new meritocrat 1538 Words. 2 Pages. PS920420. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Marketing with Multimedia:
The CRU Example

A guide to the creation of a marketing and sales diskette. This essay serves to establish the limits set by the author, Bill Ritchie, about the first pages of a marketing and sales diskette for Certified Resources Unlimited, a temporary talent bureau. 1626 Words. 3 Pages. PS920415. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Medium-of-Origin:
Making Original Original

Medium-of-origin is defined by medias' relations to printing. In digital arts, a studio-on-a-desktop has galleries as show rooms where Medium-of-origin art, or MOO works, are shown. This essay suggests what to answer, if you are asked, What is MOO? 1446 Words. 3 Pages. PS920410. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Disk-keeping:
Electronic studio chore

The day finally comes when somebody has to dispose of a lifetime of work. In the reinvented arts studio-on-a-disk drive, you avoid waste of creative talent with some new habits. The design of disk-keeping is elegant but demanding. 367 1 Pages. PS920409. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Tour of Ritchie's Perfect Studios Tree:
Guide to a smarter studio

The writing results from intuitive thinking while trying to imagine this studio on a disc, a smarter studio, as described in the business plan. The trick is to be able to describe it in the terms of the medium and the time it was conceived on computers. 2945 Words. 6 Pages. PS920404. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Skills urged for art teachers:
Fitness for the third millennium

How do artists, craftspeople and designers learn skills with new technologies while surviving the daily routine? The answer lies in building bridges between the generation with deep experience and that of the incoming learners, the arts/tech students. 2585 Words. 4 Pages. PS920325. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The new siren:
Computer conundrum

Voyagers in the 'nineties, metaphorically speaking, are attracted to the siren songs of computer advocates. Claims of higher productivity, speed, beauty and competitive edge drown the sense and use of intuition and skills of people who should know better. 684 1 Pages. PS920324. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Apple and Orange:
Complaint about GUI look-alike litigation

Lawsuits regarding the graphical user interface infringements inspired an artist to write this spontaneous, unsolicited and defensive essay. Expert intuitive electronic artists may show the difference better than products of other work places. 3133 Words. 6 Pages. PS920219. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Flow of markets:
Solving riddles

Reinventing arts studios is a process of writing, business and art. The course includes forming a corporation, and learning to think like an entrepreneur, yet redefining basic premises creatively. 822 Words. 2 Pages. PS920211. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Windows on the Art World:
A better view

Similar to the way science is depicted, e.g., Frankenstein, the mad scientist, Back to the Future, art is depicted erroneously, too. Outwardly, they match the actual appearance of laboratories and studios, but content is shaped behind a curtain. Proposal. 128 1 Pages. PS920131. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The buyer-broker:
A new deal for creatives

Using the real-estate model, a buyer/broker works for the buyer. For creative digital artists and writers wanting to sell intangible estate properties, buyer-brokers suit the emerging electronic publishing industry. Seven pages of research appended. 6257 Words. 8 Pages. PS920118. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Pet project:
Angling for an angel

How chief officers' arts, craft and design pets to bridge their business and creative, personal views with an emphasis on the human side of technology industries. The column would add a proactive, forecast quality kind of value to a magazine. 1084 Words. 2 Pages. PS920108. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Cityland in Paintbrush:
Portrait of a museum of the future

This might be a rough draft for another essay; it has the appearance of a diary or a key-by-key record of a morning in the Perfect Studio, or, as this author refers to his muse, it was written by the woman who fell to earth. 584 1 Pages. PS920107. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Where's the teacher when we need him?
A guild of former students knows

"How about Former Students in Business and Professions as a marketing and sales group aimed at higher education arts? FSBP is taking on a new direction - that of an investment club. The theme is ""Was it worth it?"" - speaking of the art school years." 1510 Words. 3 Pages. PS920103. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1991 Essays

Your after-school money:
The wrong investment

If you sent money to the alumni fund at your art school, or non-profit art organizations, museums, the odds are that you put your after-college graduation money in the wrong place. This essay explains what, at this crucial time, you can do differently. 1819 Words. 4 Pages. PS911215. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Five rules of Perfect Studios:
Searching for Central Principles

The author of a trilogy of three books he wants to complete called Perfect Studios, has organized five simple guides that could stand as central principles of the nature of economics for Perfect Studios. 163 1 Pages. PS911214. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Traveling cheap:
Never in a dangerous country

Fear reigns in a virtual world where almost everything is pure information (unfettered by earthly matter). The eagle-moguls of the industry soar, watching the landscape below for lively bits of information that they can add to their gullet. 628 Words. 2 Pages. PS911213. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Searching for the E-Word:
Artist Trust Reviewed

How is Artist Trust, the organization created for artists, craftsmen and designers doing in its educational mission? The author studied its newsletter to find out, but could not find much progress with the E-word (education). 772 Words. 2 Pages. PS911210 Searching for the E-Word-Artist Trust Reviewed. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

GoalsBook3 Defined:
A Short-term goal book

Journals, diaries, dream-books, logs - I have kept them all. I have filled commercial and hand-made blank books going back to 1988, and prior to that I have file folders with notes and essays. I love to write, and I need to plan. What I found, though ... 1239 Words 5476 Characters 2 Pages. PS911208 © 1991 by Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Commission Advertising:
Arts studios' supported in the next decade

Moreso than the fine arts, creative visual expression intended for the media have always been leading style indicators. What this means to the fine artist is new tools for reinvented studios and the economic concepts that come "bundled" with them. 1203 Words. 3 Pages. PS911207. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect U:
Perfect Studios-the Inner Kairetsu

The goal is the Perfect Studios and the means to reach the goal is, first of all, a cooperative agreement. The kairetsu model is a good one, but others might be found that suit the changing economic times. 3253 Words. 7 Pages. PS911112. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Bon Idea:
Element of a partnership

What do the Eiffel Tower, the Bon Marche and a professor of computer art have in common? They are three quality circles to increase in market share of downtown retail business, education in the use of computers and develop artistic uses of multimedia. 1507 Words. 5 Pages. PS911021. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Expert for sale:
Call your BBS

Proposal for essay describing what Bill Ritchie is doing to prepare to sell his expertise. The so-called expert system is the computer version of his knowledge, skill and attitude. His early version is supposed to run on a bulleting board service. 79 1 Pages. PS911018. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Opportunity amid crisis time:
Older professionals rolling their own

There seldom have been more opportunities for mature knowledgeable experts than now. For the next several years a maintenance economy will reign. Those who will prosper in the aftermath of this period must now (1) Publish, (2) Reinvest and (3) Maintain. 299 1 Pages. PS910927. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect Studios:
1984-2004 Mission statement

It was clear by 1984 that something was seriously wrong with the university and not the place where teaching, research and production could proceed. That is when I quit and laid out a plan and called it Perfect Studios and started to work that year. 319 Words. 2 Pages. PS910918. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Economic philosophy of the Ten Trees Studio:
Reinventing studios and schools

The author traces the path to the eco-nomics that will be one of the central principles of the reinvented studios for the arts. Development of the central-principles of Perfect Studios leads toward the eco-nomics of reinvented arts studios and schools. 1347 Words. 4 Pages. PS910910. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Valuing Intangible Assets & Intellectual Properties:
New deal for artists

Starting with a paraphrasal of Stephen J. Kerr's paper, the artist/writer develops a new way to valuate tangible art work and other collectibles, as well as intangibles such as artists' essays, writings, teaching methods, videos and software. 3062 Words. 6 Pages. PS910825. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

I saw a tree:
A smarter studio based on trees

The tree metaphor is richly rewarding, on any given day, whether the writer is playing dumb or smart. For example, he thinks the cross-section of a tree's trunk (or root, for that matter) shows a record of the history of the tree's growth, its past. 711 Words. 3 Pages. PS910613. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Little fixers, experts and closure economics:
Shake-down for eco-nomic's sake

Valuation in art, like the value of consultants' time, is risky business, mainly in terms of the closure economics we long have trusted. Evolving global eco-nomics gives us an opportunity to reorganize our values based on an open economics system. 643 Words. 2 Pages. PS910605. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The fatal error in the age of Prometheus:
Interfere, always interfere

Time becomes palpable when it is in an interference relationship with space. In the age of calculation, how one spends one's time may contain seeds of fatal errors, actions or ommissions. To overcome this danger, the author advises the Promethean way. 1098 Words. 3 Pages. PS910526. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

He didn't die - yet:
Prologue to The artist's last love letter

By adapting the conduct of education, business and professionals in medicine, law, dentistry and consulting, this author explains how the artists' legacy can be a valuable family asset, transferrable to their heirs for financial security. 3407 Words. 5 Pages. PS910523. © 1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Multimedia's Problem:
Shifting the paradigm from inside

Outline of a curriculum for a multimedia arts institute involves an extreme paradigm shift. Seen from the marketing perspective it would follow that packaging is a major concern, clarifying the situation as it was in 1991-92. 181 Words. 1 Page. PS910325. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1990 Essays

Setting the stage with heroes:
Notes for long-range goals

The navigator that lives in the artist is like the steersman living in other people who are deeply committed to their talent and skill. A public speaker, in this instance, inspired the artist/author to measure his own progress against monetary dilemmas. 3000 Words. 5 Pages. PS901121. ©1990 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr

Myth of Riches and Art:
Traveling artist's note

A traveling ITinerate Professor's note while driving in Southern California. He decides that, despite indications to the contrary, there is money in art - but not the old way. The information side of art and technology go together. 358 Words. 1 Page. PS900624. ©1990 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Why Incorporate Ritchie's Inc?
The artist-intrapraneur ponders the question

Tax structure, business plan, financing, safe-keeping - there are many reasons to consider incorporating if you are an artist to whom money is not everything but to whom art's effectiveness is everything. 1631 Words. 3 Pages. PS900412. ©1991 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Reinventing the Arts Studio:
Your Inner Kairetsu

Practice management for individual "creatives" has parallels with practice management of medical and dental professionals. The Perfect Studios would be those that provide practice management. 2509 Words. 12550 Characters. 5 Pages. PS900325. ©1990 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1989-1970 Essays

Intangible Assets in the Age of Digital Communications:
Notes from A Venturous Group

Originally titled Valuation of Intangible Assets, these are notes from a presentation by Steve Olson and Jim Elmer of Consilium, Inc., entered from the October 1988 issue of Northwest Venture Group Newsletter, compiled by Doug Batey and Kevin Collette. 1287 Words. 6926 Characters. 3 Pages. PS890131 Intangible Assets in the Age of Digital Communications-Notes from A Venturous Group. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Square One Thinking:
Education of the arts marketplace

Thinking about the goals of Ritchie's Perfect Studios and the basis for forming Ritchie's, Inc. Bill Ritchie has a dream and is inspired to write about the connection between quality of ongoing support and the navigator Metaphor. See also "Yarn Parable". 600 Words. 600 Words. 2 Pages. PS891016. ©1989 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Ritchie's Former Students:
Ten years after

Why does a professor keep the names of his former students? This version of a database, re-formatted more than fifteen years after he left campus teaching, makes the teacher wonder! 2837 Words. 7 Pages. PS850615. ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr. Full Text.

The Story of George's Art:
Part I

Original text of the way the author began the background fantasy story of his lifework. It is entered verbatim as part of his 2000-2003 In Retro project, a self-made retrospective of his 40-years in arts and teaching. He uses it to plan his next 40 years. 389 Words. 1920 Characters. 1 Pages. geosart01. © 1970, 2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

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2003 Essays

NEW! My Heart Goes Pity-Pat: What turns me on online

Orientation Lecture: My first etching

Strokes of Genius: Looking back at my Y2K Journal

Build That World! What else is worth the rest of your life?

How to Design an Online Drawing Class: A balancing act for a hybrid art course

Getting Back into the Teaching Game: Early Education in Video Games Helps Lifelong Learning and Teaching

How to Make Millions On A Video Game: Invent A Game That’s Really Different

Doing What Has Never Been Done: A pre-boomer’s view of digital games

Taking Stamps ‘N Stories to the Museum: Rediscovering the Video Dig

Emergency Meeting Revisited: The Emerging Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Professional Standards, Art Education and Information Technology: Questions for art education needs assessment in the age of digital reproduction

An On-line Loophole for Art: Learning printmaking for free on-line

2002 Essays

Cobbler Story: Encyclopedia of e-folios

Public Intellectual Unbound: Artist/Scholar goes mobile

Shoe Story: Getting to the Big Picture Show

Emeralda and Structure: TV, Science and Cyanotype

An Incurable Disease, A Gift of Life: Writing An Artist’s Last Love Letter

Exercising Freedom in Emeralda City: The Practice of Emeralda

Writing to You from Northland Ashland: The Artist’s Last Love Letter in Pause Mode

Unhappiness is the Best Beginning: The Bad Teacher’s Dream

Art Outlasts Politics Said His Tee: Reading Tees Leaves Me In Wonderment

Room in the 21st Century: Spots on Walls of the Museum Without Walls

What Did You Learn at the Museum, Grandpa?: A Visit to the Museum of Yesterday

Proposal for 12 Free ‘Net talks:: One Artist’s Way

Community Technology Center in Uptown Seattle: My Modest Proposal

On That Day His CD Burning: Your Writer’s Life on CD/R

Why An Artist Joins the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce: Ten reasons

Seattle—City of Artists Parks: Emeralda City’s Virtual, Verdant Virtuous Plan

It’s Friday So This Must Be Perfect Studios: Intertwine two worlds

Interview with an Auction Expert: Happy Tale of A Defrocked Professor Leading Somewhere

Seven Steps to A Highly Successful ____________: From Henriette, Marco to Me

The City Dump Museum of Art: Transferring your legacy at the landfill

Art Educators Must Embrace New Technology: : A New Paradigm for Distance Learning from Reinvented Arts Studios

Teacher-What’s Wrong with My E-stamp? Projections on a failed stamp issue

A Case of Recursivity: The Canon in D and other stories

One-minute Screenwriting: Your Claim to 15-minute Fame

Emeralda Works But What Do You Do? What software testing means to me

Links and Education Communities: H. G. Wells’ World Brain is now possible

Why PDAs Are Required for Emeralda Play: Making Your E-Stamp with Your Proximate

How Emeralda Works For On-line Art Ed

How Emeralda Works For On-line Art Ed

My Secret Theory of Art Ed Online Revealed Opening My Perfect Studios

Stranger In My Perfect Studio Words like beggars to understanding

A New Idea for TIAA: Asset Management and Legacy Transfer

Writing Between the Paragraphs – Part 5 Fantasy dialog between two professors

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2001 Essays

Sunday, December 30—It Must Be Perfect Studios: A Day with an ITinerant Professor

Losing Intaglio Classes and Winning Them Back: Future practices applied today

Sharing Moments: Foundations of Art Ed On-line

Test Drive for the DVD Maker: Not just another Bozo on the bus

Reinventing the Art Collector: New art instruments for times of uncertainty

Keeping Your Passport Up-to-Date: A cyber traveler’s cautionary tale

Case of the Missing Professor: Paths you can audit, paths you can trust

Analyze This : Not your usual book

Sneaky Professors Playing Games: Why eggheads like to invent their own rules

Knock Knock Who’s There?: Your First Art Ed On-line Student

Reverse Engineering Myself: What makes an on-line art educator different?

Puzzlement: Selling the Pieces of Multimedia Art History

Don’t Retire a whiner: 1O steps to take now

Taking It With You: Printmaker’s Pearlie Gates

Do IT Right by the Kids: Renewable wood and new media arts

Artist’s Happy Widow: She’s Happiest Who’s Light on Her Feet

Thanks for Your Prescience: A Case of Mistaken Advice

Dream Equity: MOE Versus OPE

Another Look at Partnering: Looking to Develop Artists’ Trust in Technology? Discover A Strategic Partner

A Prisoner’s Dilemma and New Twist on an Old Story: Walking A Life-long Journey in Your Students’ Shoes

Nightmare Prevention My Worst Fears Overcome

Power of Limits In Digital Fine Arts and Crafts There’s Barely Enough Room to Turn Around

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2000 Essays

Artist Trust Dental Service Cooperative Auction: A Joint Venture in the Art of Life Science

You Are on My List: A Message to Certain People on Our Seasonal Greeting Card Mailing List

If You’re So Smart, How Come You’re Not Ritchie? I am!

The Gates Prize: The World's Best Kept Secret Award

PERFECT
STUDIOS
ARTICLES

NEW! My Heart Goes Pity-Pat:
What turns me on online

Orientation Lecture:
My first etching

Strokes of Genius:
Looking back at my Y2K Journal

Build That World!
What else is worth the rest of your life?

How to Design an Online Drawing Class:
A balancing act for a hybrid art course

Getting Back into the Teaching Game:
Early Education in Video Games Helps Lifelong Learning and Teaching

How to Make Millions On A Video Game:
Invent A Game That’s Really Different

Doing What Has Never Been Done:
A pre-boomer’s view of digital games

Taking Stamps ‘N Stories to the Museum:
Rediscovering the Video Dig

Emergency Meeting Revisited:
The Emerging Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Professional Standards, Art Education and Information Technology:
Questions for art education needs assessment in the age of digital reproduction

An On-line Loophole for Art:
Learning printmaking for free on-line

Cobbler Story:
Encyclopedia of e-folios

Public Intellectual Unbound:
Artist/Scholar goes mobile

Shoe Story:
Getting to the Big Picture Show

Emeralda and Structure:
TV, Science and Cyanotype

An Incurable Disease, A Gift of Life:
Writing An Artist’s Last Love Letter

Exercising Freedom in Emeralda City:
The Practice of Emeralda

Writing to You from Northland Ashland:
The Artist’s Last Love Letter in Pause Mode

Unhappiness is the Best Beginning:
The Bad Teacher’s Dream

Art Outlasts Politics Said His Tee:
Reading Tees Leaves Me In Wonderment

Room in the 21^st Century:
Spots on Walls of the Museum Without Walls

What Did You Learn at the Museum, Grandpa?:
A Visit to the Museum of Yesterday

Proposal for 12 Free ‘Net talks::
One Artist’s Way

Community Technology Center in Uptown Seattle:
My Modest Proposal

On That Day His CD Burning:
Your Writer’s Life on CD/R

Why An Artist Joins the Queen Anne Chamber of Commerce:
Ten reasons

Seattle—City of Artists Parks:
Emeralda City’s Virtual, Verdant Virtuous Plan

It’s Friday So This Must Be Perfect Studios:
Intertwine two worlds

Interview with an Auction Expert:
Happy Tale of A Defrocked Professor Leading Somewhere

Seven Steps to A Highly Successful ____________:
From Henriette, Marco to Me

The City Dump Museum of Art:
Transferring your legacy at the landfill

Art Educators Must Embrace New Technology: :
A New Paradigm for Distance Learning from Reinvented Arts Studios

Teacher-What’s Wrong with My E-stamp?
Projections on a failed stamp issue

A Case of Recursivity:
The Canon in D and other stories

One-minute Screenwriting:
Your Claim to 15-minute Fame

Emeralda Works But What Do You Do?
What software testing means to me

Links and Education Communities:
H. G. Wells’ World Brain is now possible

Why PDAs Are Required for Emeralda Play:
Making Your E-Stamp with Your Proximate

How Emeralda Works
For On-line Art Ed

How Emeralda Works
For On-line Art Ed

My Secret Theory of Art Ed Online Revealed
Opening My Perfect Studios

Stranger In My Perfect Studio
Words like beggars to understanding

A New Idea for TIAA:
Asset Management and Legacy Transfer

Writing Between the Paragraphs – Part 5
Fantasy dialog between two professors

Sunday, December 30—It Must Be Perfect Studios:
A Day with an ITinerant Professor

Losing Intaglio Classes and Winning Them Back:
Future practices applied today

Sharing Moments:
Foundations of Art Ed On-line

Test Drive for the DVD Maker:
Not just another Bozo on the bus

Reinventing the Art Collector:
New art instruments for times of uncertainty

Keeping Your Passport Up-to-Date:
A cyber traveler’s cautionary tale

Case of the Missing Professor:
Paths you can audit, paths you can trust

Analyze This :
Not your usual book

Sneaky Professors Playing Games:
Why eggheads like to invent their own rules

Knock Knock Who’s There?:
Your First Art Ed On-line Student

Reverse Engineering Myself:
What makes an on-line art educator different?

Puzzlement:
Selling the Pieces of Multimedia Art History

Don’t Retire a whiner:
1O steps to take now

Taking It With You:
Printmaker’s Pearlie Gates

Do IT Right by the Kids:
Renewable wood and new media arts

Artist’s Happy Widow:
She’s Happiest Who’s Light on Her Feet

Thanks for Your Prescience:
A Case of Mistaken Advice

Dream Equity:
MOE Versus OPE

Another Look at Partnering:
Looking to Develop Artists’ Trust in Technology?
Discover A Strategic Partner

A Prisoner’s Dilemma and New Twist on an Old Story:
Walking A Life-long Journey in Your Students’ Shoes

Nightmare Prevention
My Worst Fears Overcome

Power of Limits
In Digital Fine Arts and Crafts There’s Barely Enough Room to Turn Around

Artist Trust Dental Service Cooperative Auction:
A Joint Venture in the Art of Life Science

You Are on My List:
A Message to Certain People on Our Seasonal Greeting Card Mailing List

If You’re So Smart, How Come You’re Not Ritchie?
I am!

The Gates Prize:
The World's Best Kept Secret Award