What did that Texas woman mean when she said, "You could pay for Emeralda with those presses!" We were taking an introductory lesson in SpotOn3d--a virtual world like Second Life--when the question of money to develop our game came up. I described the Halfwood Presses.
The conversation was among Janet Fisher, me, and two people in Texas who own SpotOn. It happens these were also artists, and they knew about printmaking, etching presses, etc. I was impressed. This happened months ago, when Janet first bought into SpotOn3d as a more likely virtual world for testing the theory of a blended online learning experience for printmaking students and colleagues.
A conversation last night got me thinking about this again. For one thing, it was to result in another order for a Mini Halfwood Press. This means not only another member of the community of Halfwood owners, but also a few more dollars that will help keep the idea of learning printmaking online alive.
This conversation was special in more ways than that. She is a former student from my halcyon days at the University. She witnessed the changes I was making to the way I taught printmaking. She was a teacher, too, taking leave from her college in Alaska to take some more college classes. When she asked me for my card file of reading notes, I was impressed. I was even more impressed when she returned them with her annotations!
So today for my Wacom, Graphic Novel and card exercise, I revisited my Second Life land and saw it as a card shop--selling electronic Artist Trading Cards (eATC)--and put up the fanned-out version for starters. I tagged today's exercise with the SLURL that would take anyone reading this to the Emeralda City Plaza in Second Life
It was fun.
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