Cloud Forest: Find yourself in your bathtub at home, Interactive Harbin Ethnography - actual / virtual Harbin

Harbin ethnography:

... in a virtual world like Second Life, compared with actual Harbin.

Find yourself in your bathtub at home – perhaps with lots of plants around you in your bathroom - and teleport yourself into virtual Harbin in Second Life here (SLURL to follow). You have already gotten a free avatar, and learned how to find your way around the free Second Life. You've made your free Second Life avatar – the 4-5 inch animated figure which represents you, and with which you'll interact with other avatars and their end users from all over the world, and through which you may start to build things - into a representation of whomever you want. From the comfort of your bathtub, and the relaxation response which may occur due to it – you find yourself in a new, virtual island – virtual Harbin – which a lot of different people have built together to resemble the actual Harbin Hot Springs in northern California.








http://www.macalester.edu/environmentalstudies/students/projects/citizenscience2008/effectsofecotourism/images/monteverde%20cloud%20forest%20reserve.jpg






(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/03/cloud-forest-find-yourself-in-your.html- March 20, 2010)