Reverse Engineering

Taking a game apart and putting it together - His morning routine is to take a computer game apart and put it back together, but changing the pictures in the game. He takes a classic rock music group’s game, lists how many mini games are in it, and draws a new design for a game about his printmaking. 628 Words. ap100114. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Problem One

Thoughts of a dying diehard printmaker - Winding his way through a problem on his computer one morning he hits on an understanding of the first problem to set before online printmaking users—a kind of jigsaw puzzle of why to learn old-time printmaking in a time of digital reproduction of prints. 1287 Words. ap091021. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Leaving Mind

A clue from J. S. Bach - Someone once said J. S. Bach left us his mind in the composition, Well Tempered Clavier—an instance of both a beautiful and instructional work of art. It is possible that today an artist can achieve the equivalent—combining instrumentation with digital media. 610 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Comic Professor

News from Lake Emeralda - Affecting the style of the renowned radio show, Prairie Home Companion, and yarns that Garrison Keillor features each episode, the Emeralda Inventor writes what it would be like to describe himself as an eccentric character in the News from Lake Emeralda. 1111 Words. 5113 Characters. Copyright 2008 Bill H. Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com