Thursday, December 24, 2009

More On Metaphor



In the metaphor, you're in a car museum. You see an auto mechanic's toolbox. It's locked. One drawer opens with a key you found on the floor. In the drawer you find a wrench. With the wrench you can tighten the hood ornament on a car, which lets you find the car key to start the sports car, which turns on the lights, revealing a coin. Put the coin in the juke box and music plays.

In Printmaking Camp, you open the box of accessories, you find useful things, such as the blankets, test plate, the user's manual, the certificate of authenticity, and the disc. Each item branches to another level, another challenge. In the backstory, you must trace the pathway of the forger and do as he does. You may find Issey being the one to narrate this pathway, solving the puzzle.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Treatment Plan

Back story for a hundred years - He wants to write a treatment for Act II of a screenplay about a woman who is on a rescue mission in a strange, heavily guarded but lovely artist’s paradise—front for a doomsday plan requiring the artists creative process to end human life sustainability. 1137 Words. vp091020. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Writer’s Respite

Taking a moment to think about writing for a moment - The author’s goal in life was always to be a teacher—a Great Teacher. After reading about a unique individual named Elmer Gates, his life and his commitment to education, he determined that to reach his goal he would have to take an unusual course: Games. 1447 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. vp090801. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Monday, June 22, 2009

Licensing Halfwood

You can take it with you - After five years of developing the design of the Halfwood Press, the designer contemplates a way he can continue the product line concurrently with helping it grow to its full potential. The best option is to license the designs and production to someone. 1383 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. vp090622. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Friday, June 12, 2009

Screenplay Blender

Writing backstory, screenplay and scripts for ELPO - Taking on the project of a blended online printmaking course gets complicated when your online presence must assume a virtual role, playing in a virtual world. You must be a writer as well as a printmaker and you must write in both real and virtual forms. 942 Words. vp090612. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Monday, June 1, 2009

Benefits of Learning Printmaking Online

Ten reasons to invest in Emeralda: Learn Printmaking Online - As an artist and professor in higher education and the inventor of a digital-game-like user interface for a fine arts online course, the author provides ten reasons why people taking his printmaking course at this time think it makes a good deal of sense. 1377 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. vp090314. For full text email: ritchie@emeralda.com

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Moment Numbers

Elemental time and space code words for ELPO - 20th Century artist printmakers used edition numbers as part of their art’s provenance. They did not consider edition numbers to be important, but to the publisher, art dealer and collector they were, and are. Moment numbers replace edition numbers today. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. 1853 Words. vp090523. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com