Flash EATC

Searching for a use for a Flash ecard - He’s searching for a way to replace his old, kludgey, time-and-labor intensive Artist Trading Cards with something that can be both virtual (or digital) and also made into real paper cards quickly and cheaply. Text on a flash e-card website helps him out. 475 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. sp091107. full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Baby Picnic

An invitation to a new printmaking world - The author puts himself in the mind of a complete babe in the woods so he can imagine what it’s like to know nothing of a virtual world of learning printmaking online, picturing two people he would like to invite to an online picnic in a kind of 3-D blog. 1231 Words. sp091018. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Press Party

Face to face social networking around a Halfwood Press - It feels like a flash of genius when the author (and designer/builder of an etching press he calls “Halfwood”) considers finding someone to host a press party. In this essay, he tries to outline how it works, and why it’s a benefit to those who attend it. 868 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. sp090908. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Fifth Logline

Keeping it short and simple - A logline is a short elevator-speech version of a movie script or screenplay. It’s what you say when you found yourself in an elevator with someone like Steven Spielberg or George Lucas twenty years ago. That was then; now there’s a virtual world instead.
503 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. sp091008. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Author Screenplay

Bill Ritchie on “Dusty’s Prize” - Writing is one way Bill Ritchie practices his art and craft, a parallel world in the way he addresses the classic question of form and content, form being printmaking, and content coming from literary and narrative art, opening the door to performing arts. 1203 Words. sp090918, ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Why Cooperate?

First considerations for an international printmaking cooperative - Since the time he visited Paris’s Atelier 17 in 1969, the author has sustained a vision of the benefits of bringing printmakers from all over the whole wide world together for the ostensible reason of making prints. Has the reason why changed in 40 years? 587 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. sp090531. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

On Blogs

Blogs I did not get to write
His day started out not like any other day. Earlier-than-usual to rise, beset by the same cascade of ideas of things to do, things to be done, things to write most important of all; but there’ll be no blog today he decided, because he tidied up his novel. 1128 Words. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com