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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.

NEW! My
Heart Goes Pity-Pat:
What turns me on online
An artist between to ages—the 20th Century
and the 21st—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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An On-line Loophole for Art. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.
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 20th Century planning to work in 21st C. modes. 1924
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Art Outlasts Politics Said His Tee. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.
Room in the 21st Century:
Spots on Walls of the Museum Without Walls
Looking back to the 20th Century he views
scores of friends—many of them who would have been successful artists but for
their 19th Century roots. Those were good times, but now the gallery,
the museum and the collectors’ walls are full, those venues gone. 613
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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 21st Century Living Museum. 788
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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
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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 20th Century models at first, but decided they were of limited value. Nonetheless,
they’re useful to see what not to do. 486
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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-20th 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
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Between the Paragraphs - Part 5. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.
(For personal,
custom service and downloading full text, send email to: ritchie@seanet.com)
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 21st
Century, this story helps explain some short courses in paper and technology
that the professor envisions. 924
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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
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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
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Sharing Moments Foundations of Art Ed Online. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.
T
est
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 21st 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Power of Limits in Digital Fine Arts. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vision of Art Education Proprietary Search Engine. ©2000 Bill H.
Ritchie, Jr.
(For downloads of full text, personal and customized services send e-mail to:
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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