Erica Williams

After all that she did for me - A telephone call inspires an artist, who had his heyday in the ‘80s, recalls some things that the caller did for him as an art dealer back then. He recalls highlights of his short, happy career, and how her help brought about creative acts and made money. 1017 Words. es090714. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Intern Task

Ideas for a Web Design Intern - With an opportunity to gain the assistance of an intern, the taskmaster notes some ideas to serve as guidelines for the intern period of 12 weeks. His goal is to use the Internet as part of an online course that bridges art history and new technologies. 611 Words. es090614. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Meta Soap

A soap opera for the age of digital reproduction - There’s an essay he would like to write to enter for today during his day stay on the island of Electronic Studios and Art Galleries—but his time is up, used up in a review of Chapter 7 of his novel, “Hunt for the Emeralda Treasure,” a meta-daytime drama. 1111 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. es090604. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Selling Sequel

The art of selling prints - Twenty years ago he wrote “The Art of Selling Art,” based on his experience selling his own creations. It was an education, and his textbooks were many, their advice skewed toward commercial gain. His book was personalized. Now he wants to write a sequel. 1354 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie es090525. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Lesson One

Introduction to Learning Printmaking Online - He may be teaching printmaking in a new way soon, and the professor, entering the final phase of his lifelong career as a teacher, considers ways he will approach the vital first lessons of his plan to teach printmaking in the age of digital reproduction. 1125 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Studio Bound

Note from a studio of anticipatory studies - What would it be like, he asks, if he spent his entire day bound to his studio, like being housebound? Surrounding him are unfinished projects that he knows are part of the anticipatory world of Emeralda, his imaginary, perfect world of arts and artistry. 1180 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Driving Son of HAL Crazy

If Doug Lenat Made Movies - Turning points are features of a written script for a movie or plays that carry the audience from one event to another. The sequence is a combination gives us Acts I, II, and III. An Internet company, Cycorp, likewise develops dramatically along a course. 1928 Words. ©2000 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com