<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/tr/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><head> <title>BILL DYCKES: WRITER</title> <meta name="description" content="A writer/editor/et cetera's site: trade books, textbooks, photography, and much more"> <meta name="keywords" content="Afrocans, Arts Magazine, books on tape, college textbook, Chuck Close, Contemporary Spanish Art, Das Schloss, El Internaci—nal Restaurant, etymology, flowcharting, Guidepost magazine, gyrocamera, Kafka, Mart’n Chirino, mezzotint, museum catalogs, museum catalogues, Photo Realism, photographs, rewriting, school textbooks, Spanish Art Now, Spanish Realist art, Super Realism, The Castle, prostate cancer, Wolfgang Treu, word play, writing"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Author" content="Bill Dyckes"> <meta name="robots" content="index,follow"> <meta name="revisit-after" content="180 days"> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body background="../indexpix/bg.gif" bgcolor="#eeeeee"> <a name="top"></a>  <br> <div class="array"><img width="602" height="58" src="bluepen.jpg" valign=ÓtopÓ align="center" alt="Fountain pen image and the word Writing" border="0"></div>  <br> <div class="array"> <a class="three" href="#books">BOOKS</a>       <a class="three" href="#articles">ARTICLES</a>       <a class="three" href="#web">WEB SITES</a>       <a class="three" href="#pr">PR</a>       <a class="three" href="#other">OTHER</a> </div> <br> <div class="text">Well over a million words published in magazines, newspapers, trade books, art catalogs, college textbooks, school textbooks, web sitesand even stranger places. One of the things I do best is to provide easy-to-understand explanations for complicated topics. <i>The Hypertext Guide to Prostate Cancer</i> is the best example. Others include an introduction to Hispanic culture for a television series, some of the earliest (and simplest) computer manuals, and style sheets for textbook projects. </div>  <br> <hr> <br>   <a name="books"></a> <div class="topic">BOOKS</div> <a class="one" href="../books/bookwriting.html#csa"> Contemporary Spanish Art</a> <div class="text">Recommended by the <a href="../refs/refs.html#eb">Encyclopædia Britannica</a>. </div> <br> <a class="one" href="../books/bookwriting.html">Spanish Art Now</a> <div class="text"> This was the first book to cover the young Spanish artists of the post-Civil War period. <a href="../refs/refs.html">The Herald Tribune of Paris</a> called it an enormously complete directory of who is painting and sculpting what in Spain today. </div>  <br> <a name="articles"></a> <div class="lead12"> </div> <div class="topic">ARTICLES</div>  <a class="one" href="../goldi/goldi.html">An Introduction to Interactive Flowcharting</a> <br> <div class="pub">Published in <a href="http://scolar.vsc.edu:8005/VSCCAT/ABP-0834"><i>E-ITV,</i></a> (Educational and Industrial Television) magazine, and used in teaching some college-level courses. </div> <div class="text"> Written because no simple introduction to flowcharting existed, and many people seemed to find it confusing. The trick was to use a story everyone knew, and the best choice was the ultimate multiple-choice fairy tale. (Videodiscs have fallen by the way, but this explanation is still useful for understanding CD-Roms and other flow-chartable things.) </div>  <br> <a class="one" href="../articles/gyro/gyro.html">Filming <i>The Castle</i> with the Gyrocamera</a> <br><span class="pub">Published in <a href="http://www.theasc.com/magazine/"><i>American Cinematographer</i></a></span> <br> <div class="text">A description of the techniques that cinematographer Wolfgang Treu used when shooting this adaptation of Kafkas novel. Treu began using a gyroscope more than ten years before the creation of the Steadicam.</div> <br>  <a class="one" href="../oddlots/oddlots.html#pais">¿Has escuchado el último bestseller?</a> <br><span class="pub">Published in the newspaper <a href="http://www.elpais.es/index.html"<i>El País</i></a> (Madrid)</span> <br><div class="text"> I recognized the value of books on tape when they first appeared in the early seventies, mainly because they seemed to be the ideal way to reduce the drudgery of house-cleaning (a theory I have yet to put to a test). This article was written at a time when they were catching on in Spain. <nobr><i>El País</i></nobr> is the most important newspaper in Spain. </div><br>  <a class="one" href="../close/close.html">The Photo as Subject</a> <br> <span class="pub"> Published in <i>Arts Magazine</i> and the anthology <i>Super Realism</i> (Dutton). </span> <div class="text"> Because of my background in photography, I was one of the first reviewers to recognize the value of the Photo Realist movementand to explain what was new and interesting about it.</div> <br>  <a class="one" href="../articles/realists/realists.html">The New Spanish Realists</a> <br> <span class="pub"> Published in <i>Art International</i> </span> <br><div class="text"> One of the few valid realist movements of the late twentieth century developed in Madrid. This article comments on the work of this small group of painters and sculptors.</div>  <a name="web"></a> <br> <div class="lead12"> </div> <div class="topic">WEB SITES</div> <a class="one" href="http://www.hypertext.org/index.html">The Hypertext Guide to Prostate Cancer</a> <br><div class="text"> A site filled with clear and very complete information about this disease. The top level is a brief overview that introduces all of the topics one needs to learn about in order to make a treatment decision. Links lead to a second level where each topic is discussed in more detail and where there are other links to medical web pages dedicated to specific topics. I also did the design and wrote all of the code. <a href="http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/doc_img.aspx?viewid=f4e8091b-d873-4b3f-9658-a2489f9ff8e1&docid=aad46193-af08-4ab3-a54a-df8bcc01a6be#prostatecancer">Recommended by the National Cancer Institute</a>.</div> <br> <div class="text"> <a class="one" href="../pod/intro.html">Podpages</a><br> Several pages of how-to on podcasts, the Webradio programs you can carry with you (2006).</div> <br> <div class="text"> <a class="one" href="../webstuff/homepage.html">Voice In Off</a><br> Youre looking at it. Written, designed, coded, and Photoshopped by Bill Dyckes.</div>  <a name="other"></a> <br> <div class="lead12"> </div> <div class="topic"> OTHER WRITING </div>   <div class="subtopic"> CATALOG ESSAYS </div> <span class="pub"> <a href="../articles/afrocans/afrocans.html"><i>Afrocans,</i></a> written for a show at a New York art gallery.</span> <br><div class="text"> Written for a show that included several series of recent works by the Spanish sculptor Martín Chirino. The title refers to a series that shows influences of both Africa and the Canary Islands, where Chirino was born. <br> I wrote several catalog essays while living in Spain. </div> <a name="computer"></a><br>  <div class="subtopic">COMPUTER MANUALS</div> <div class="text"> I wrote two in-house manuals in the1980s. The first was for the Development Office of Columbia University, then in the process of switching over from typewriters to the IBM 5520 system (1984). My version was contained in relatively few pages. IBMs version was contained in a great many looseleaf manuals.The second, <a href="../MANUALS/manuals.html">Word and Data Processing: WordPerfect 5.0</a>, explained how to use WordPerfect 5.0, with information relevant to creating foreign-language textbooks (1988). Again, it was simple, direct, and much, much shorter than any other explanation at the time. </div> <br>  <div class="subtopic">CULTURAL ESSAYS</div> <span class="text"> The <a href="../CULTURE/culture.html#destinos">Home Viewers Guide</a> that accompanied <i>Destinos,</i> a Public Television series designed to teach Spanish. <br> <a href="../CULTURE/culture.html#patio">Similar work</a> for many school textbooks. </span> <a name="pr"></a> <br><br>  <div class="subtopic">MENUS</div> <div class="text"> Not the prices, essays about food that I wrote for El Internaciónal, a very off-beat (and extremely popular) New York restaurant. At first, the <a href="../EL-INT/menus.html"> essays</a> were about the special of the week, but I soon shifted to themes involving food, history, and anthropology. </div> <br>   <div class="subtopic"> PRESS RELEASES, BROCHURES, ADS, ET AL. </div> <div class="text"> I began doing occasional public-relations pieces in Spain, often as part of a package deal in which I would also oversee the printing. I never really looked for PR work but rarely turned it down. Many of the materials I did were untraditional, usually employing a strong visual element. My principal clients were: </div> <ul> <li type="square"> Artist <a href="http://www.foodculturemuseum.com"><span class="bb">Antoni Miralda,</span></a> who creates large-scale events. I wrote many press releases and proposals for his projects, including the marriage of the Statue of Liberty to Barcelonas Colombus Monument. </li><li> The <span class="bb">El Internacional Restaurant,</span> one of the most popular nightspots in New York City in the mid-1980s, created and run by Miralda and Montse Guillén, a well-known chef from Barcelona. Wrote essays on food for the menu, most press releases, parts of a quarterly newspaper, and the texts for the restaurants <a href="../EL-INT/videomenu.html">video menu.</a> </li><li> <span class="bb"> The Commercial Office of Spain,</span> which is in charge of promoting Spanish products in the United States. I wrote press releases on Spanish products. </li><li> <span class="bb">The Spanish Consulate of New York,</span> for which I created and ran a film club. <a href="../film/cineclub.html"></a> I also prepared all of the publicity materials, handouts, and press releases. </li></ul>  <div class="subtopic">QUIZZES</div> <span class="pub">Written for <i>New Woman</i> magazine</span> <br> <div class="text"> A monthly build-your-vocabulary series. Example: <a href="../articles/WORDPOWER/wordpower.html">Things That Go Bump in the Night</a> </div> <br>  <div class="subtopic">SCRIPTS</div> <div class="text"> <a href="../film/film-video.html">Several short films</a> (and a number of unfilmed longer scripts). <br> <a href="../goldi/goldi-alt.html">Goldilocks vs. the Three Bears,</a> a script written to show how DVDs and related mediums can be expanded. <br>(It is a variation on the example in the article <a href="../goldi/goldi.html">An Introduction to Interactive Flowcharting</a>.) <br> Interactive videodisc and workbooks to accompany Scholastic, Incs Science Place textbooks. 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