RITCHIE'S VIDEO ESSAYS

Practice and Production:
The Keys to Artists’ Successes

Reflecting on his past experience as a professor of art for part of his career, he remembers the students who focused on practice and production and how they succeeded after leaving school. Now the lesson is coming to reside in the playing of video games.  3543 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi30820 Practice and Production. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

A Land Like Emeralda:
Roadmap to Developing An Intentional Community

Mention of independent communities in a conversation sends this author back in time to when he realized that the dream, so common among artists and poets, has interested many others. Why not take a new approach in this region of creativity and technology? 1052 Words. 5093 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi30810 A Land Like Emeralda. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Stamp Out Art:
Artists Stamps and Video Games

Why use stamps as an item in a video game, you may wonder. The author is inventing a game designed for artists and art teachers, using his 40-year experience in both domains as the foundation for a virtual Communiversity. He says stamps are the best part. 1034 Words. 4941 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi30721 Stamp Out Art. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Where in the World is Professor Ritchie?
Search for the Absent Professor!

The inventor of Emeralda: Games for the Gifts of Life, is searching for metaphors to give more clarity to the method of playing his game. One of his richest resources is the news from campuses where imaginative professors sometimes provide models for him. 1451 Words. 7111 Characters. 3 Pages. ivi30701 Where in the World Is .... ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Watching Your Assets:
Growing a Big Fat Smart E-Art Portfolio

If Gates Were Alive Today:
He’ be a digital game-based learning producer / designer

Elmer Gates was a turn-of-the-century brain researcher, educator, inventor and philosopher. He died in 1923, his dreams unfilled. Had worked 100 years later it’d be a different story. His ghost lives, however, in the new machines of one mid-career artist. 1238 Words. 5922 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi30522 If Gates Were Alive Today. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Gates Story:
A Gamer’s Introduction to Emeralda

Understanding Emeralda—a simulation game for learning all about art processes—requires knowing Elmer Gates, whose legacy is at the heart of Emeralda Region. Emeralda is an imaginary Northwest area where an evil cult hides amidst a paradisiacal art colony. 515 Words. 2457 Characters. 1 Pages. ivi30512 The Gates Story. ©2003 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

MiniDemoCamp:
The Long Arm of Art

The Seattle Independent Mall may be the site of a camp for people who want to return to a teaching/learning setting right the city. In this teacher's mind he is painting a picture of his ideal: a short, fast effective art demonstration like you see on TV. 597 Words. 2844 Characters. 1 Pages. ivi301012 MiniDemoCamp: The Long Arm of Art. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Don't Look Backward:
Good advice for an Emeralda Defender

He's coming to realize his path towards certification as an Emeralda Defender entails the concomitant loss of his permanent abode. As soon as he begins to see the portal of a new, abiding site for his mission, he begins to anticipate a plan for departure. 876 Words. 4222 Characters. 4222 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi21128 Don't Look Backward. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Crossroad or Fork in the Road?
Once upon a path less taken

One who chose a path less taken finds people, places and events lie in wait, fall, or are missing as he strives toward his goal, his vision of the Gates Prize. Or, another path crosses, or branches off. Which way does he choose, and why? Is it his choice? 808 Words. 3841 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi21029 Crossroad or Fork in the Road-Once upon a path less taken. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Deep Emeralda:
Sounding the Depth

A search for a former student, a space ship crash, an artist’s last love letter—what’s the connection? The love letter’s author compares it to an underwater search using a remote-controlled camera, for the “black tetrahedron” in the wreckage of his craft. 2242 Words. 4 Pages. ivi20929 Deep Emeralda Sounding the Depths. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

An Art Professor Grapples with Activists Who Take Extreme Measures:
Gloom and Doom Not An Option Now

How does an art professor deal with colleagues who go to extreme measures to uphold an old and obsolete school system? This author says learning, research and practice are intertwined in an unbeatable noose for an atrophied 20^th Century art school system. 668 Words. 1 Page. ivi20909 An Art Professor Grapples with Activists Who Take Extreme Measures. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Postcards and E-stamps:
A New Paradigm for Reinventing Arts Studios

In a dreamed call from a book artist who sees sculpture in book form, the author wakens to how he can write his new book by traveling to and sending postcards from an imaginary artist colony where all shop signs are spelled backward and stamps go digital. 556 Words. 1 Page. ivi20830 Postcards and E-stamps. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction:
What’s Next?

How does video fit in the age of digital reproduction? It has a bit part in the history of multimedia arts in the Pacific Northwest, co-mingled now in computers and telephones. This author says they’re virtually an alloy comprising new substances for art. 504 Words. 1 Page. ivi20820 Video in the Age of Digital Reproduction. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Putting Yourself in the Pathway of Success:
Inventing the electronic metastamp

There are some days in the life of a Great World Teacher when he thinks he may have gotten on the wrong track, when there’s no need or desire for his services, knowledge and skills. What can one do at a time like this but put him self on a different path? 730 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20810 Putting Yourself in the Pathway of Success. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Questions to Ask Your Art Education On-line Teacher:
And Answers You Should Get

These essentials you need if you want to study art on-line under the four principles of art education (teaching/learning, research, practice/production and community) provide assurance that there are ways to empower yourself in the arts. But you must ask. 812 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20731 Questions to Ask Your Art Education On Line Teacher. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Basic Books of Emeralda:
The Trilogy that Makes Sense

Years of research, starting with sales, then marketing, and then the design of the Games for the Gifts of Life—Emeralda—yields a trilogy this author envisioned as “Art Student” alongside a student from the last century. He launches into reverse nostalgia. 739 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20731 Basic Books of Emeralda. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Tipping-in Artistamps at Video:
The 21^st Century Art Teacher

Art teachers of the 21^st C will be different from those of the 20^th. The main difference is orientation from inner to outer vision. Sweeping changes, starting from outside the institutionalized education sector, will occur. What will be the tipping point? (Continuation of a copy-writing excercise over another author's work) 6875 Words. 12 Pages. ivi20721 Tipping In Artistamps at Video. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

FUNding the Multimedia Center:
A new paradigm for an old dream

Thinking about a multimedia center today is very different from that in years past, and so a new paradigm is needed. Today’s people are not like yesterday’s, and such a facility as he’s thinking of can’t be based on old-time models—including paying plans. 1331 Words. 3 Pages. ivi20711 FUNding the Multimedia Center. ©2002  Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

A Million Dollar Idea for Parks?
Maybe A Two-for-One Special

An artist/scholar is loose in the neighborhood, strolling around Queen Anne and focusing on a vision of future Uptown Seattle. Here new parks are in planning stages and artists, crafts people and designers are in the frontline, and this can help everyone. 795 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20711 A Million Dollar Idea for Parks. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Teaching, Learning, Research and Practice for Arts Wisdom Boomers:
It's Not What You Know, but How and When You Use It

The inventor of Emeralda discovers a paragraph in an essay on knowledge and wisdom he thinks is the way of the Emeralda Warrior. He copy-writes over that essay, shaping the article by a Yale professor to fit his own needs as an ITinerant Professor of art. 2023 Words. 4 Pages. ivi20701 Teaching and Learning for Wisdom Boomers. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Giclee Printmaking:
Inkjet Goes Upscale and Artists Get On-line for Fun and Community Building

More people know what an inkjet printer is, and how it’s different from, say, a laser printer. But when technology went from simple things like graphs to realistic image the principle developed into a color printing process that exceeded inkjet printer. 1439 Words. 3 Pages. ivi20621 Inkjet Goes to College. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Answer to A Ten Year Prayer:
Emeralda Works II for You

Are the recent indicators in this artist/teacher’s life—a life that’s experiencing a change—the answer to his ten-year long quest for the answer to his question, “What can artists and poets do to save the Earth now?” Scientists have it in their Union; can artists? 1552 Words. 3 Pages. ivi20611 Answer to A Ten-Year Prayer. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

If I had half a million dollars:
I’d build myself a school

In the night he dreamed of an appropriate phrase to describe his current interest in writers and writing, so this artist thinks what it would be like to have the resources to achieve what his dream has given him: A school for the arts of the 21^st Century. 984 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20601 If I Had Half A Million Dollars. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Artists’ Stamps in the Age of Digital Reproduction:
What Artists’ Stamps are Really About

Now’s a new era, and the traditional mechanically printed stamp is part of it, this artist writes. Digital stamps will not replace paper and hand-stamps; they will increase artists’ stamps’ values in several ways, beyond the stamps previous utility value. 838 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20522 Artists' Stamps in the Age of Digital Reproduction. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Formula for Art Ed On-line:
A Better Paradigm for Art Education in the 21s Century

Forty years of teaching inside and from the margins the established arts education channels, it’s easier to arrive at a formula in art education than it will be for those who have had only an insider’s track. This professor of art works from the margins in. 1855 Words. 4 Pages. ivi20502 Formula for Art Ed On-line. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Making My Moves:
Asset Management and Legacy Transfer in the Age of Digital Reproduction

The ultimate goal of his Emeralda games is a “live” artist’s story attached to artist’s stamps. Some woodblocks the artist/scholar carved are the image he scanned and saved to permanent .BMP files on his computer and while making stamps taping on the fly. 847 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20422 Making My Moves. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda Works:
A new approach to art education on-line

He’s reminded how great it felt when, as a student and then a graduate from college, he passed the examinations that led him to becoming an arts professor. When that faded, what took its place was passing the “build tests” of his e-portfolio tests on DVD. 1047 Words. 5160 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi20402 Emeralda Works A New Approach to Arts Education On-line. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

You Are Good, But Are You Good Enough?
Striking out on campus is a home run for the world class professor

If you made it up the ladder of success on campus, think what you could do in the real world! This is on the mind of this professor who a generation ago was successful at the university and then set out on a tougher climb. He reasons that he’ll be better.  (Corrupted file being restored) 693 Words. 2 Page. ivi20323 You Are Good But Are You Good Enough. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

On the Road to Something Fine--Again:
A screenplay in progress

The author began 3 books 14 years ago, and finished 1. The 3rd would have been titled Ghosts in the New Machine and, in his vision, unlike any book he could imagine at the time because he’d use new technologies and new arts. This would be his life’s work. 2011 Words. 4 Pages. ivi20313 On the Road to Something Fine--Again. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Getting Tenure On-line:
Good news for an virtual on-line art educator

College and university professors are giving on-line education credibility. Believing the value of distance learning will filter down as it were to secondary education, this artist/teacher goes a step further, forecasting an art education on-line is near. 949 Words. 3 Pages. ivi20221 Getting Tenure On-line. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Printmakers Who Missed the Boat:
Grim outlook for those who were mistaken

Printmakers who missed out on learning the relationship of traditional printmaking to newer exactly repeatable image making techniques have missed the boat, in this author’s opinion. He’s grateful for the video lifeline tossed to him when he was teaching. : 2601 Characters. 531 Words. 1 Page. ivi20201 Printmakers Who Missed the Boat. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Taylor Made Trouble:
Traveling the path to virtuous reality

Virtuous reality to this author means the combination of virtual reality and reality as it is commonly known, and his reading leads him to uncommon reading material, such as a book by a humanist named Taylor. “Taylor” makes odd connections in his thought. 1177 Words. 3 Pages. ivi20122 Taylor Made Trouble. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Writing Between the Paragraphs – Part 9
Fantasy dialog between two professors

The authors’ essays—written for humanities domains—conclude similarly, and this is that without facing the perilous profession of on-line education, teachers and researchers will be unconsciously devaluing their own abilities to labor in education fields.  915 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20112 Between the Paragraphs - Part 8. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Handing Over Your Passport
Stamps and puzzlements

Practicing his game, Emeralda, the inventor observes the similarity between his passport metaphor and artists’ stamps. His stamp becomes like a building block for an on-line, interactive game to be played by artists and teachers worldwide on the Internet. 742 Words. 2 Pages. ivi20102 Handing Over Your Passport. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

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The DVD You See Is What You Get:
The end goal of Your Printmaking Class-Paper to Technology

Teachers begin with the end in mind—to be great teachers. A school’s quality is determined by the successes of its former students—and so too of teachers in the school. A class in printmaking and DVD created by a Great Teacher begins with the end in mind. 896 Words. 2 Pages. ivi11223 The DVD You See Is What You Get. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

If I Had My Career to Start Over:
True confession of a mature art educator

After reading essays by a whining old professor who misses the good old days and a educational futurist on the next pages, the 60-year old author considers his former students and associated artists and what he would do if he had to start his career over. 1107 Words. 2 Pages. ivi11208 If I Had My Career to Start Over. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Art Salons and Learning Communities:
Reflecting on feedback the day after

It happened one day that the author signed on to a list-serve for Learning Communities and met in an Art Salon with other artists who were looking for feedback. His impression is that the two events are connected, added to his experience to a Big Picture. 2603 Words. 5 Pages. ivi11128 Art Salons and Learning Communities. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Dreams Seeking Gift Seekers:
Where do you transfer your gifts of life?

The artist/scholar relies on two resources—the Chronicle of Higher Education and his dreams. These converged recently in an article titled “Dream a little dream” describing “teaching anxiety dreams.” Professors have the same dreams—or nightmares—as he does. 1484 Words. 3 Pages. ivi11029 Dreams Seeking Gift Seekers. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Rejection Blues Again:
Grants are artists worst time-wasters

Two rejections for grants arrived this month while this author, an advocate for change in the ways of art education, continues to develop his artistry on a different pathway. Jury by statistics has replaced passion and curiosity and undermines new ideas. 1119 Words. 2 Pages. ivi11019 Rejection Blues Again. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Action on DVD Listserve:
Call to artists, crafts people and designers

Feeling and thinking like a castaway, stranded in a time when most people think DVD is only for movie entertainment, the artist compares his situation to the movie Castaway and his DVD is “Wilson”. There’s a way to escape the isolation now: DVD Listserve. 418 Words. 1 Page. ivi10919 Action on DVD Listserve. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

How I made the DVD Intaglio Plate Making 1971:
How like AUREL

He wheels archival videos on printmaking into the condominium basement storeroom, thinking how like it is to AUREL, the Artists Uniform Resources Electronic Locator. It would “match” the one of the sisters who fell to earth in Emeralda’s background story. 588 Words. 2 Pages. ivi10909 How I Made DVD Intaglio Plate Making. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Woodcut Class:
Then and Now

Via e-mail, David Stones Ishita described how he teaches woodcut to young students in two-day lessons. It taught this artist/scholar, even at the great distance, how to approach teaching on-line art courses in general; so again art ed on-line is possible. 1287 Words. 3 Pages. ivi10731Woodcut Class Then and Now. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Professors Coming Out:
From Closets to Free Art Ed On-line

As part of his concepts of an art supply store, the Itinerant Professor explains how he will produce a Digital Versatile Disc and disseminate it as part of free fine art education on-line programs. He must remove obstacles, such as an overcrowded closet. 1246 Words. 3 Pages. ivi10701Professors Coming Out From Their Closets. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Memories Art Made of This:
Superior Beings, Superior Means

I returned from Toxi City. I sat down to review my plans and map out my day’s work, and recalled the expressions of anguish on the faces and in the words of the old people I encountered. How fragile human memory is, compared to the memory in my computers! 1136 Words. 5264 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10611 Memories Art Made of This. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Saucepan Effect:
Icing on the Cake

The Little Red HEN decided to do IT alone, raise her own wheat. But she found at the end she was eating her cake and bread alone, disenfranchised. And IT was no fun. IT doesn’t have to be that way! A saucepan is for icing on the cake. Try IT and eat, too. 1962 Words. 9487 Characters. 4 Pages. ivi10601 Saucepan Effect Icing on the Cake. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Saucepan Effect:
Icing on the Cake

The Little Red HEN decided to do IT alone, raise her own wheat. But she found at the end she was eating her cake and bread alone, disenfranchised. And IT was no fun. IT doesn’t have to be that way! A saucepan is for icing on the cake. Try IT and eat, too. 1962 Words. 9487 Characters. 4 Pages. ivi10601 Saucepan Effect Icing on the Cake. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Analyze This:
A Ritchie Hour

If an hour of videotape could be given to documenting all that occurs in the artist’s first hour of his routine activity, what would it indicate? If they can learn anything from analyzing rocks from the moon, why can’t they analyze this? What ‘s it worth? 1053 Words. 5111 Characters. 3 Pages. ivi10522 Analyze This A Ritchie Hour. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Future Search, Dam Burst and Games People Play:
Truly preparing your kids for the future

Intellectual capital (IC) is an elusive concept for most people, and has different definitions. Over time, however, it is plain that it is worth a lot! Most of it gets bottled up or thrown away. Whether the best rises to the top depends on IT’s interface. 1832 Words. 8692 Characters. 4 Pages. ivi10502 2 Future Search Dam Burst and Games. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Simple Man, Simple Dream:
Making of An Emeralda Defender

Recently encountering people who go out of their way to find new experiences of the kinds he offers, the artist/writer/seminar provider reflects on ways to take a next step. The path leads to arts education on line, he believes, and he draws on a new map. 1838 Words. 8617 Characters. 3 Pages. ivi10422 Simple Man Simple Dream. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Wealthy Mattress Tester:
Money in the Night, Work in the Night

He studied an inventor who put himself into a state of mind conducive to creating solutions to problems, inventing and discovery. This author imagined a fantastic region called Emeralda, and goes there in his sleep, believing his world of work never ends. 1312 Words. 6066 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10402 Wealthy Mattress Tester. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Art Student:
Falling Out of Bed One Morning

At 3 AM the author wakens and thinks back in time to the roots of today’s routine—making a DVD of his lifetime’s achievements. An artist and teacher, he started at 24 with a goal to become a great teacher. He writes to review connections from then to now. 2213 Words. 10223 Characters. 5 Pages. ivi10323 Art Student Falling Out of Bed. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Another Day, Another Video:
Revisiting MyDVD

Random writing by the artist as he maneuvers among his software for DVD, text and hypertext. A mysterious missing island interrupts his thoughts, and ideas about marketing a Japanese wood block printmaking tool interfere, too: Interfere, always interfere. 664 Words. 3284 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10313 Another Day Another Video. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

What is A New Print?
Reflecting on the Coming Day

People ask, “Are you making any new prints?” and the artist has to wonder, “Have you seen all my old ones already?” This essay was written by the artist in part for the Ritchie Family Art Collection foreword, the first paper version of his online project. 2463 Words. 10955 Characters. 5 Pages. ivi10303 What is A New Print. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Communications:
Digital Versatile Disk and Art Museum Practice

The author wants to share creation of a one-minute management template, his idea, with the Bellevue Art Museum, so he writes a proposal suggesting a three-way program that will help structure education, research and practice for future use by many people. 589 Words. 3129 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10221 Work of Art in the Digital Age. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

What, No Video?
My Retrospective in A Museum Not

On the occasion of a message from one of the artist’s acquaintances in the art curating profession, the author explains his opinion of retrospectives that artists are given by museums and art galleries, suggesting they are not what he chooses for himself. 994 Words. 4685 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10210 What No Video. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Teaching an Old Coyote New Tricks:
A cast of your old tired enterprise

Casting of your old tired ethics is the acronym COYOTE, an organization for prostitutes and it’s compared in this story to what an old professor feels when he confronts the digital age. This is a fantasy story about an emeritus professor going on the Web. 919 Words. 4061 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi10201 Teaching an Old Coyote New Tricks. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Dream Job for Virtual Tours
Going Afloat on the Virtual Tours University

An ITinerate Professor submits to hypnosis to plan virtual tours for his clients. Mystery surrounds the procedure in his courses, but it is perfect work for this professor because it also allows him to follow his own dream—saving the Earth—while he works. 1002 Words. 2 Pages. ivi10122 Dream Job for Virtual Tours. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

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Unpacking My Library—100Mb at A Time:
Reflections

Walter Benjamin wrote Unpacking My Library 75 years ago. I read it 25 years ago. Another one was “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Benjamin, critical essayist, was one of the major contributors to the invention of my game, Emeralda. 1103 words. 5313 Characters. 2 Pages. Filename: ivi01120 Unpacking My Library © 2000 Bill H Ritchie Jr.

Video Publishing Opportunity:
Speculating on Past Performances

Video producer Ritchie, surveying a wall full of videotapes from the 1970s and 1980s, speculates on ways to prevent losing it to certainties of plastic and magnetic degradation and seeks advice of patrons of multi-talented artists presented by the videos. 6984 Characters. 1563 Words. 3 Pages. ivi01002 Video Publishing Opportunity. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

When dreams come true:
What to do?

The artist who dreams of having his or her own art studio and gallery will see the dream come true. Like The Chicken Painter, experiencing the gallery and studio as a reality reveals little about the process of achieving it. This article tells a bit more. 798 Words. 3602 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi00902 When Dreams Come True What to Do. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Intruders:
The Inquisition

His imagined visitor intrudes on the inventor’s inner dialog about how a person plays the game he invented—but has not published—called Emeralda. He realizes that the game is for players not conceived, a ghostly audience that exists in an imagined future. 2422 Words. 10942 Characters. 5 Pages. ivi00601 Intruders and the Inquisition. ©2000 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Gates Prize, Scene I, Part 1:
Screenplay by Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

He writes an opening setting: “Cursor moves to background window. Scan book page. Awkward hands remove book from under the scanner lid, sitting precariously amid clutter. “Elmer Gates . . .” glimpsed on the book’s cover as it flops open.” So far, so good. 1362 Words. 6735 Characters. 5 Pages. ivi00427 Gates Prize Screenplay by Bill. ©2002 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Found at Emeralda City Dental:
Dusty - the Wealthy MFA

He is on the lookout for opportunities to reinvest in labor, as a way of demonstrating as teacher/mentor and provider, laboring a sustainability mission. When an enterprise emerges, it's not  just any job, but an experience—so he helps a dental assistant. 1280 Words. 5880 Characters. 3 Pages. ivi00419 Found at Emeralda City Dental. ©2001 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Old Rat Video and Impudent Smiles:
Shot in the back at the University

An Old Rat Videoist talks to a group of newcomers about a plan to teach statewide. He thinks he can take his online game public if it works at home. He says education is the key to success of the new era. A killer cynic mocks him, saying it can’t be done. 547 Words. 2402 Characters. 1 Pages. ivi00412 Old Rat Video and Impudent Smiles. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The Driveway of Miss Nellie Cornish:
Getting Used to I-T

If she’d had driveway.com, Miss Aunt Nellie (Cornish) would have been uploading her files on the first day she opened her music school. All the artists and students would have followed her example. Creative types need to look back and get used to IT, now. 825 Words. 4247 Characters. 2 Pages. ivi00405 The Drive of Miss Aunt Nellie Cornish. ©2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

It Takes Common Sense to Understand Each Other
Emeralda Works, Emeralda Plays

There is no art education online, says the Inventor of Emeralda. This in mind, he strives to explain why, and he brings his readers to the threshold of understanding why dilemmas and common sense are the two gates to making art education online a reality. 1491 Words. 7355 Characters. 3 Pages. ivi00119. Copyright 2000 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

1999 Essays

An artist who reinvented himself to become a gamester, says that in his vision of the future of art museums and schools on-line a Canadian/US joint venture wields an audio video-streaming interface for art museum’s Global League of 21^st Century Museums. 973 Words. 2 Pages. VI991128. Copyright 1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Availing of the benefit of a FREE online course he calls “Introduction to Screenplays,” the author virtually enrolls in a course that is not yet online. So doing, he tackles a first assignment: Write the plotline for Emeralda: The Women Who Fell to Earth. 219 Words. 1 Page. VI991127. Copyright 1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

He needs to contact like-minded people to hang out with, so he writes a press release to describe what happened one generation—twenty years ago—while still inventing Emeralda, “the games for the gifts of lives.” Plans are to send it to friendly neighbors. 533 Words. 2486 Characters. 1 Page. VI991002. Copyright 1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

A dentist of the ‘Twenties (the year 2022), for the first time, meets a candidate as a Dental Assistant. The interview demonstrates needs of his dental artistry. It is an example in a contest that began in the last century--while he was in dental college. 299 Words. 1 Page. VI990929. Copyright 1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Practice simulation on line:
Proposal to a dental college

An announcement in a Dental Society bulletin in 1999 (in which there was reference to practice simulation) piqued the imagination of the author who, as a writer of science fiction, pictured futuristic dental practices and so sets down his interpretations. 1078 Words. 2 Pages. VI990928. Copyright 1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

The opening of yet another workbook for this author's Perfect Studios Trilogy. He imagines himself as prisoner with a dilemma: What will happen if he tells the story about the ways all games he played led to Emeralda? Destruction? Reconstruction? Freedom? 1079 Words. 1 Page. vi990605 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

You may already be a winner:
Musings of a PDFAF Champion

Whilst a contestant for the Gates Prize Qualifiers creates his entry--a calendar--she contemplates the glory of winning the Pacific Digital Fine Arts Festival. It is a way to answer the question, Is it your own or for other peoples' enterprise you strive? 1230 Words. 2 Pages. VI990604 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video Game:
Sirens and Museums

Museums hold a high attraction for me. They are like the Sirens in Greek the Greek myth. On the Video Island in Emeralda region, the physical presence of a wall of videos, the books in the print library, and unfinished scripts sing to me People will come! 523 Words. 1 Page. VI990603 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

When Books Hide:
Lunch with Brian Wallace

People forget sometimes the wonderful individuals with whom we break bread because we are very well fed in the US (many of us have so much food we even throw a fourth of it away). Breakfast means literally breaking-fast. This essay is about eating people. 1669 Words. 2 Pages. VI990602 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

A wall of videotapes poses no problem to the Emeralda Inventor, for it is a towering harvest of ideology, imagery and provides hope. Most people stay on the beaten path and walk backwards into the future, trusting everything to the wakes. Not an Inventor. 736 Words. 1 Page. VI990601 ©1999 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

I Would Rather Be In My Art Studio:
Confessions of a wannabe-a-printmaker again

A request for a videotape from a school thousands of miles away sends the art teacher—no longer in a traditional classroom—adrift into the past, present, and the future possibilities of multimedia. He’s a multimedia artist and a practitioner of tradition. 2649 Words. 12294 Characters. 4 Pages. Vi981128 I Would Rather Be In My Art Studio-Confessions.... ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Video Automata:
Electronic dolls and arts educators

Automating teaching, this art teacher believed, is easier than teaching in real institutions today. Information at your fingertips is a good old idea. But he recalls the warning in a silver-colored paperback, titled in black, "Information takes Command!". 1094 Words. 5298 Characters. 2 Pages. Vi981118 Video Automata-Electronic dolls and arts educators. ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Getting Started:
Notes from the Magister

Apprentice Users are offered a ToDoIT list that will guide them in their beginning steps of Emeralda play by the Inventor of his version of the Game for the Gifts of Life. Plus, they peek at the benefit of learning an on-line interactive cooperative game. 1828 Words. 3 Pages. Vi981108 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Q&A from Fantasy Agents:
Emeralda Inventor Interviews

On the Isle of Video, the Domain-of-expertise in analog and digital video production, the fantasy agents interrogate the inventor of Emeralda, questioning the relationships between video and the inventor’s suite, what he calls Games for the Gifts of Life. 8519 Words. 39094 Characters. 16 Pages. Vi981019 Q and A from Fantasy Agents-Emeralda inventor interviews. ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Ancient video:
Awash in a sea of rasters

Watching the Emeralda Videos “The Emeralda Inventor Interviews”, you’re aware that there's something bad about the video image. Bad color balance. Bad signal. Was that because it’s the first time an art named for its technology—video—or the antiques used? 715 Words. 3445 Characters. 2 Pages. Vi981009 Ancient Video-Awash in a sea of rasters. ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Inventor interview:
Systems theory, vague terms and economics

A fantasy interview between a ghost interviewer and the inventor of Emeralda in which he touches on the connections among systems theory, equality and equity. Video was a core technology in the early days of developing role-playing games for art students. 1154 Words. 2 Pages. Vi980929 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Inventor interview:
A busy day at Video Isle

A fantasy interview between a visitor to Video Isle and Bill Ritchie, inventor or Emeralda. This interview is interrupted by a hasty dubbing session of a tape made in Sweden in 1983. The tape had become the subject of interest of a communications student. 1525 Words. 2 Pages. Vi980919 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda for Babies:
I want my EMTV

New cultural centers are awaiting invention and discovery. In searching, people need to be reminded that true North is fixed. We have only our compasses to rely on. As regards others who watch us--we must not let the idea we have a compass mislead others. 1257 Words. 2 Pages. VI980909 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Romance, Imported Cars and Art Supplies:
No starving artists here, thank you very much

The writer was inspired to create this anecdote after a shopping errand to the city’s largest art supply store south of downtown Seattle. He’s a reformed art teacher and believes the art schools haven’t changed much since he was in school forty years ago. 3689 Characters. 775 Words. 2 Pages. Vi980830 Romance Imported Cars and Art Supplies-No starving artists. ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

What's your problem?
How can Emeralda help you solve it?

In stream-of-conscious style the inventor is testing his creation, Emeralda—the Games for the Gifts of Life. If his game can’t address his problems in all their diverse variety, of what use is it? He senses that a “production portfolio” may be a solution. 501 Words. 2309 Characters. 1 Page. Vi980820  ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Mapping Video:
The Roving Eye and the Video Cartographe r

Emeralda is new to the world, yet it is old, so claims its inventor here. New, because it has not been played yet by anyone outside his garage, basement and spare bedroom studios; and old because the game is based on events that occurred 30,000 years ago. 514 Words. 2370 Characters. 2 Pages. Vi980810 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Directions for Beginning Emeralda:
When the Books Are the Compass

Closing the ledgers of a business, or the monthly records of a professional, gives the owner or practitioner a sense of direction. Most people get their directions not from ledgers but from the ones who own the ledgers and the information in them. 1747 Words. 8072 Characters. 3 Pages. Vi980731 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Bookbinding and Video:
A Vision of the First Resort for Book Arts

The author sees the book as a primary source for all the arts, borne in part by the book arts’ relation to printing and the descendent media arts. Video bridges the paper tradition books with the working of book makers in this age of digital reproduction. 1253 Words. 2 Pages. Vi980721. ©1998 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Finding your Cell:
As Told In Cell A6

The opening words in this Emeralda journal are, “Prevailing Meni: Video” which is known among Emeralda Players as a key bit of knowledge. It suggests what one can expect to find while visiting, or as a resident-in-stay. This essay is taken from his notes. 816 Words. 3575 Characters. 2 Pages. Vi980711 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Looking Back on Ledger Day:
How Emeralda's Score sheet works

First in a series on the closing of the books on one month of Emeralda Play. In this article the inventor makes notes of the routine as it is on July 1, 1998. 397 Words. 1873 Characters. 1 Page. Vi980701 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

A Video Mail List:
Gateway to Artist's Residency in Lithography

The author conversed with an artist who is invited to return to her Alma Mater for a short teaching session. Following this, he writes about blending new ways of teaching with traditional brick-and-mortar schools. 1469 Words. 6988 Characters. 3 Pages. VI980621 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Emeralda Score sheets:
Tracking Your Investment in Video

Scores may refer to music sound tracks, a tally of points in a ball game, an obscure expression loaded with private meanings, or a new way to account for human capital. Video tape can play a role in the game, as this writer explains. 1611 Words. 7489 Characters. 3 Pages. VI980611. ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video the Inventor:
Deja Vu-finder On Video Isle

The first time that images of any kind were recorded of the inventor of Emeralda while he was laboring over the tasks. This article is from notes hastily made during and after the recording session. 381 Words. 1645 Characters. 1 Page. VI980522 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video Lecture Forecast Already True:
Is Video Art A Global Language for Peace?

The Emeralda Tour includes drop in visits to ongoing demonstrations by practitioners of the arts and craft of each Domain of Expertise in the Emeralda Region. These virtual demonstrations and lectures actually take time and theme from the future searches. 451 Words. 1 Page. VI980512 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Going against the current:
Uploading in Emeralda

A day in the play of Emeralda, the CD-based on-line interactive game invented by this author, begins with altering two digits--that of today's date. He connects this with a stream of ideas that trace back to a headwater, a 1974 visionary video. 1881 Words. 2 Pages. VI980313. ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

High Maintenance Costs of Art Education: :
Self Management and Art Education Reform

Video was the key that opened the gates to opportunities to visual and performing artists in the 1960s and 1970s. Not that the gates are locked again, but the high costs of maintaining an art world that is trying to die are piling up in front of the gate. 2133 Words. 9567 Characters. 4 Pages. VI980203 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Knowledge Workers of the World Unite!
A call for video

Peter Drucker is a thinker on the subject of work, economics and society as a whole system and technology which, like economics, bypassed the knowledge worker generation. Ironically, knowledge workers over 50 skipped education in economics and technology. 679 Words. 3317 Characters. 1 Page. VI980202 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Can you sell prints with Video?
Expert says No and Yes

Videos the author created in printmaking studios were helpful to teach people how prints are made, but not how prints are marketed. A connection with selling is an indirect one. Tapes may be substitutes for teachers but not substitutes for sales persons. 558 Words. 1 Page. VI980201 ©1998 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Auditioning for Emeralda
A real-life moment of living dangerously

The player receives e-mail from Indonesia. The sender is asking for a videotape from the player's database. They propose a reduced price because, as they say, they do not have much money. These are the kinds of decisions that the player must make in the course of playing Emeralda. 793 Words. 3906 Characters. 2 Pages. vi971111 Auditioning for Emeralda-A real life moment of living dangerously. ©1997 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Patentable Life:
Method of playing Emeralda

Can one patent his or her life? If you believe there is a method of winning the games of life, can you patent the method? This essay prefaces the storyline for a video program about the patent process for a game called "Emeralda," invented by this author. 1103 Words. 5383 Characters. 3 Pages. vi971019 Patentable Life-Method of playing Emeralda. ©1997 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Virtual Artifact:
Seven habits of highly effective museums

Taking an unorthodox position, the author looks at museums in the information and telecommunications age and uses a new metaphor, basing his ideas on human development and new age wealth-building ideas. 2650 Words. 5 Pages. VI970513 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

How do YOU play Emeralda?
Video surprisal

There are many ways to play Emeralda because it is a complex game played by complex people. Even the act of writing about playing it, or describing it to someone else, is part of playing it. It is truly a game of positive feedback, a kind of inner dialogue not unlike the process of creating a work of art, a poem or a movie. In the art and craft of video, which is one of the media arts skills for playing Emeralda, surprise is akin the experience of printing from a plate where uncertainty is the rule. 829 Words. 2 Pages. VI970403 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video Day Cruise:
Catching up with yesterday

Typed on a miniature keyboard of a pocket-sized word processor, this article was written as the author traveled by foot and by ferry boat to Bainbridge Island on his way to Silverdale’s Silver Ridge Elementary school. Fifteen years ago this globe-trotter had to carry his own video system to achieve his goals. Today he uses hypermedia and the Internet as his traveler’s tool kit to act locally and think globally. 2323 Words. 4 Pages. VI970314 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Bumper Crops or Bumper Cars?
Stranded on the information superhighway

Washington State’s economy is divided into two: Agriculture and culture-culture, but they share common educational needs. All levels-K-12-call for a continuous learning medium, perhaps a video program to address information and communication technologies. 1447 Words. 6867 Characters. 3 Pages. vi970202 Bumper Crops or Bumper Cars-Stranded on the information superhighway. ©1997 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

The Mork Principle:
Accounting practices for HSIC

The player in the game Emeralda visits ten Isles of Domains of Expertise and, at the end of the 24-hour visit, gets the stamp canceled on the souvenir postcard, plus accreditation. Interrogation accompanies the process, but who does the questioning? 786 Words. 2 Pages. VI970123 ©1997 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Living Prints Videos:
The most information for your money

Occasionally, someone wants to know why the videos on printmaking cost more than entertainment and mass-produced videos. The producer’s success was due to getting the most information for his money--and giving it back via technologies growing from prints. 3184 Words. 15834 Characters. 5 Pages. VI961201 Living Prints Videos-The most information for your money. ©1996 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

Libraries in Reverse:
My perfect day in video

The perfect day continues for the Gruddite Apprentice-User, and this part is spent in Ritchie’s Video World. Rewinding a video or an instant replay is compared to a library-in-reverse. 1231 Words. 2 Pages. VI961008 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

I am A Video Camera:
Secrets in an art supply store

Summary: Make believe you are a surveillance camera assigned to watch over the art supplier's goods. Imagine the dreams going on in peoples' minds as they browse like-a store full of visionaries. 1085 Words. 2 Pages. VI960927 ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Video Phonies:
Between now and then

The vision of a new kind of book is clear, but how can the vision be communicated? From among the welter of buzz-words and hype, the fine art telecards (code-named FATS) the author finds a truly new art form for lifelong education. 1069 Words. 2 Pages. VI960307. ©1996 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Vanishing Act:
Ghost-busting the new machines

From inside the author's imaginary board-of-director's room in his Perfect Studios, a roll call shows he needs an essay, written material to link technology, schools and videos. 1767 Words. 8570 Characters. 4 Pages. VI951222. ©1995 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

They Came in Laughing and Stomping Their Feet:
A Story for New Emeralda Playing Students

Short story illustrating how Emeralda playing students solved a mystery of the missing professor. It all started in reality in the year 2002 when the true professor, in his honest truth seeking way, set out to find a missing file for his in-retro project. 997 Words. 4567 Characters. 2 Pages. vi941009 They Came in Laughing and Stomping their feet. ©1994 Bill H Ritchie, Jr.

1993 Essays

Guide to Viewing Living Prints®:
The video resource tapes

Content is the author's cap-stone in a career in arts, crafts and design. He believes printmaking, more than any other art, has the best content potential for electronic publishing. His package for interactive art education is the name Living Prints®. 2427 Words. 9 Pages. VI930724. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

CAPSE and ARN/EPP:
Merits of TRPI

The first club of TRP Investment focuses on an RFP from a company for videos to test a new idea in their retail stores. Computer-Aided Post Secondary Education (CAPSE) finds clearer definition in this account, inspired by contact with national experts. 559 Words. 2 Pages. VI930718. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Living Prints:
A guide to re-purposing

This essay is a guide for viewing and deciding whether to attempt re-purposing videotapes in the Ritchie's Video Library and Archives. When old videotapes are re-released, they may have a new purpose in life such as images and oral history. 675 Words. 2 Pages. VI930717. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Videotape Upgrade:
The right stuff it takes

Ritchie's Video Library and Archive is probably the largest private collection of videos on arts, crafts and design in the Northwest. Some are 20 years old and may not be played. There are ways to upgrade the tapes to be of more than nostalgic value. 1797 Words. 3 Pages. VI930715. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect VCR:
M-I-N-E

"Can't program a VCR" became cliché in the 90s, often referring to old dogs who can not learn new tricks. This is invalid: There is little on TV worth the effort to learn VCR skills! Here is a perfect VCR easy to program, one that listens and passes it on. 1202 Words. 2 Pages. VI930626. ©1993 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Perfect Studios Visits Dan Smith, Inc.
Saturday demonstration account

Visit Daniel Smith, Inc. almost any Saturday you will see a live demonstration. Twice a day--at 11 and 1--artists, crafts people and designers show their skills. The author visits and notes thoughts to sell publishing technology to arts experts. 428 Words. 2213 Characters. 2 Pages. VI920724. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Living Prints:
A proposal for the TV series

Overview describing the proposed TV series, Living Prints®. The expert printmaker can, in thirty minutes or less, show you more about print making - the fine art kind - than in a week in today's art schools. 1040 Words. 4751 Characters. 3 Pages. VI920629. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

I Found IT!
Virtual museum intelligent agent

The author claims to have discovered a living intelligent agent awakening ghosts from the past and wonders if they will they are part of the future of the new virtual reality. 1208 Words.  5778 Characters. 3 Pages. VI920423. ©1992 Bill H. Ritchie, Jr.

Four printmaking processes
Live at TESC printmaking workshop

Description of a printmaking studio videotape where the author demonstrated printing to beginning students. Stencil, relief linoleum, wood, metal relief, safety, monotype and mono-printing are shown. Side issues of economics and management are mentioned. 354 Words. 2091 Characters. 1 Page. VI910904.