Emeralda Stage

Arriving in a new virtual world - The author has joined with a video game designer to develop a printmaking world inside an imaginary place in an imaginary world called SpotOn3D! He may never have another opportunity to know how the moment of arrival feels, so he writes down his feelings. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. 933 Words. ri091028. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Play Space

Experimenting with learning printmaking online - The author works on ways to participate in teaching and learning, research, practice and community service online as well as in the real world. He has been inventing ways to do these things by using online 3D worlds—virtual worlds—for a printmaking world. 1601 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ri091017. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Bill’s Screenplays

My ideas for five movies I’d like to see - In his day to day work the author is an artist, with a special interest in printmaking. Writing is also a big part of his day and lately he’s been learning the art and craft of screenplays. As things happen, these screenplays are connected to printmaking. 1019 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ri091007. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Real Bible

How my bible works for me - Being a media artist of the 21st Century needs adapting to video games as this is the art of the century. As an industry grew out of video games, individual artists were left in the dust. However, as the dust settles, a 21st Century artist’s bible appears. ©2009 Bill Ritchie 1211 Words. ri090808. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Feeling Economics

Heart and head in the arts of the digital age - Reviewing the editor’s rendition of one chapter in his novel, “Hunt for the Emeralda Treasure,” he is pleased with her work. His mind turns to co-ops, collaboration and cooperation among artists, and his discovery that shared worlds are a genre of sci-fi. 1486 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ri090602. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Shared Worlds

Video games and printmaking - This printmaking professor sees joining of community with performance in the printmaking world; and the printmaking world, like that of the video game designer, is a shared world. As in the shared worlds in literature, co-operation is the key to survival. 1599 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. ri090609. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Scrimshaw Story

Vladimir Petroslovana Chichinoff’s narrative on the sides of the Plasteel Press
The Plasteel Press is patterned after theMini Halfwood, but, instead of wood cladding the steel parts, it is clad in plastic that looks like ivory. Scratched in the sides is a story by a Russian, Chichinoff, kidnapped and then cast away on Two Dog Island. 761 Words. Full text by email request.