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