From ritchie@ritchie.seanet.com Wed Mar 15 23:43:16 PST 1995 >From ritchie@ritchie.seanet.com Wed Mar 15 23:43:15 1995 Return-Path: Received: from mx5.u.washington.edu by lists.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA05054; Wed, 15 Mar 95 23:43:15 -0800 Received: from kesha.seanet.com by mx5.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.31 ) id AA04564; Wed, 15 Mar 95 23:43:14 -0800 Received: from ritchie.seanet.com by seanet.com with SMTP (8.6.9/25-eef) id XAA29255; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:43:09 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:43:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199503160743.XAA29255@seanet.com> X-Sender: ritchie@kesha.seanet.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cyberartists@u.washington.edu From: ritchie@ritchie.seanet.com (Bill H. Ritchie, Jr) Subject: Group's future Bret >You've hiked over enough of the landscape to have some sense of what has worked in what ways . . . Media> You've been around the world, talked to creative and technical people in fifteen countries -- and now it's so much easier. Bret> even the most brazen leader doesn't eschew a chance to absorb knowledge from persons who have already learned about a difficult arena. Media>If the soul of a philosopher may venture to address you, let me whisper this wisdom in your ear, he said. Bret>Any individual or group, to be effective, must be able to balance abstraction, idealism, and process on one hand with concreteness, pragmatism, and forward motion on the other. Media> If you are to write my opera, do this. Uncover those words. "No," said Gay, "I do not show unfinished work." Bret> . . . waiting for others to demonstrate a zeal for a similar vision so you know whether to invest yourself in a next step with the group (?) Media> They have invested. Such a word. Gay said nothing and waited. Bret> . . . visions translated into concrete demonstrations of potential and plans are exciting and motivating, and lead to a desire to participate. Gay: "Alright. What I want you to do is join this investment club. One that is part teaching, training, education--call it whatever. It's part research. Third, it's production. Call it T-R-P. Teaching, research, production. Here are the rules." He hesitated. Then he keyed, "It's a partnership. You pay. You invest. You teach, you learn. You research. You dig and discern, report. You criticize. You produce, you make money, add it to your club's assets--*your* assets. It's a partnership and a co-op. You leave little to chance that would only drain your material assets, risks your ability to protect your art, your gift." Media was looking at him, incredulous. "Gay, that's . . .." She stopped. It's your story, Media. You fell to earth 30,000 years ago. You would have drowned. You were not supposed to land in the water, in that sea, they named for you. You were saved by Dolphins. Your sisters lived, too, but they went to different islands. The people, the women, they would have killed you had it not been for One-Who-Speaks-with-Dolphins. They named you, "From-Afar" because of your dark skin. From near the sun, they said. And you painted, Media, with them. And sang. There, in the grotto, deep down, where only the women knew, for they found the cave when they were diving for the abalone. You painted, but one day you struck up a slow dance with One-Who, your hands red with paint, and you slapped the wall, that limestone wall. It broke something, Media, and you know One-Who would have killed you then, but it was too late. What you put asunder, Media, all these 30,000 years have not restored. I know you are sorry. You could not have known. It does not go easy for us, Media. Unlike you, we are carbon. You are . . . >This is e-mail, Gay. It's not the time. It's too long. Bret> But casting those first, concrete steps which other people can step on --and placing those steps/opportunities clearly and unambiguously before people -- is critical to translating vision into reality. You are right, Bret. If I can do this new e-mail software correctly, I will attach the Articles of Incorporation, first draft, for the Living Museum and School of Cyber Arts, Crafts and Design (formerly "computer"). They were derived from several sources. I am not an attorney, but most AOIs are drawn up along these lines. You can also buy pre-printed articles of incorporation at stationary stores. Larry Berg is an attorney, I understand, and would probably agree that the articles are pretty straightforward. It is in the by-laws that it can get complicated. And the most complicated of all, back-chaining to the beginning, the letters of intent, memos of understanding, and the mission, then the goals, and, at the very head of it all, the values, aka, the preamble. At least, that's how I see it tonite. Thanks, Bret, and all others who managed to read all this! -- Bill One more thing, I would like to get my home page done so I can feel easier about putting things out to be read; the listserve seems like an imposition, like unsolicited mail, long-winded naughtiquette. .