Dodecatheon: Great Harbin Hot Springs' online photos ... Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in many languages ... here, for example ... Visit the Harbin Gate here, and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View / Earth ... http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ... and re my ... Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html, I wonder too re the photo into animation in my blog entry on Sunday - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html - in what ways the above Harbin photos might migrate?

Great Harbin online photos ...

Wondering how these may morph into a virtual Harbin and virtual earth and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy in many languages

... here, for example ... 
Visit the Harbin Gate here,
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View / Earth ...

http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: Photo Tour
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsPhotoTour

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: Pools
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsPools

harbinhotsprings>Before The Fire
https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/BeforeTheFire

harbinhotsprings>Harbin Hot Springs: The Domes

https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave/HarbinHotSpringsTheDomes

harbinhotsprings's Gallery Albums (10)

https://picasaweb.google.com/harbinwave

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Harbin Hot Springs - CLOSED

http://www.yelp.com/biz/harbin-hot-springs-middletown

Photos

http://harbin.org/photos/

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and re my ...

Naked Harbin Ethnography:                  
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html

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I wonder too re the photo into animation in my blog entry on Sunday - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2016/03/mbuna-animation-of-photo-of-max.html -  in what ways the above Harbin photos might migrate? 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecatheon

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Naked Harbin ~ New Website for 'Naked Harbin' Book ~ Promoting My Upcoming Ethnography ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~

Naked Harbin ~ New Website for 'Naked Harbin' Book ~ Promoting My Upcoming Ethnography ~

http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html ~

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spiral stars: Wanting to explore writing a haiku-ish inspired by the Harbin pools with words from my Dalton Friends' letter ... which is loving and caring, and about love and care …

Wanting to explore writing a haiku-ish inspired by the Harbin pools with words from my Dalton Friends' letter ... 

{Friends' Dalton Letter ~ http://scottmacleod.com/daltonletter.htm} 

which is loving and caring, and about love and care … 

loving Care

Empathy, delight, sympathy,

centered caring, tenderness,

sensitivity, oh … ineffable Ecstasy

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Am posting this to my blog, 

and here defining haiku-ish as form further, 

and adding this to the new-ish ‘Caring and Loving’ wiki Subject page at WUaS …

http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Caring_and_Loving ... 

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Caring_and_Loving

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Haiku-ish are

Informed by Haiku poetry form

17 syllables-plus

often three lines

nature is a focus

inwardly explosive or enlightening

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spiral_galaxies

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Astronomy

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The Gazebo Light Show at Harbin

The Gazebo Light Show at Harbin 

I looked up

from down one flight of steps,

from in front of the restaurant doors,

and saw the shimmery, white

under-roof of the Harbin Gazebo

Dance-reflecting its fountain's movements

on that rainy night.

Went to bed,

with rain on my head …

As I walked in in the morn,

the long way around,

from across the creek,

near the Res Center,

on up the road

to the village path,

and then through the woods

to the pools,

for to see things and to hike,

it was three turkeys,

on the bubbling, creek side of the road,

one male,

with white head and red underface,

and a little blue in there too -

so colorful, vivid, clear and bright,

thanks to nature on this moist morning -

that inspired me to write this,

catalyzed by the

Magnificent, shimmery light

of the Gazebo under-roof

on a rainy night,

which I had never seen before,

at light-filled Harbin.

As I walked on,

I stepped into

one of Harbin's nice, new

bathrooms for campers,

and for the people of

the (somewhat new) canvas-covered Domes,

popping up on the Harbin hillsides, -

like little, puffball mushrooms, in the rain, -

near the Harbin, bubble Domes' junction,

to write,

since smartphone use

at Harbin isn't allowed,

except in parking lots,

to which this bathroom is near.

These new restrooms are beauts:

3, orange-globe, light fixtures,

suggestive of apples in shape,

and a decorative, ceramic, sink basin, -

blue, green and flowery,

with a little orange here in there, too, -

and shimmery, silver, upper walls, in tile,

with one sun - a rise or set - in orange tiles,

at the horizon, at midriff's height, 

with blue tiles below

~~~ and spacious ~~~

with only a toilet, and no shower,

and six, blue, ceramic nobbies,

on the double-decker, 3-prong, coat rack,

an earthen-orange floor below,

and one rectangular skylight, 
high above.

Walked on to the pools …

~~~ ~~~ ~~~

Disconnect and soak, and

tune into the lands and the waters.

Waters flow upward here,

and earth’s energies too …

while things bubble around …

reconnecting with

what comes up,

in the oneness which is Harbin.

On into the waters

from O:) that night’s Gazebo show …

O:), the light, the watery light.

Scott MacLeod

March 6, and March 13, 2013

Blue-spotted ray: Clothing-optionalness, an English Garden and appeal, esp. vis-a-vis Harbin.org, and my actual / virtual Harbin ethnography, here ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com ... for 3+ draft chapters plus much more

http://www.rossum.com/philip10/1/52_600.jpg

Clothing-optionalness, an English Garden and appeal ...

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/world/europe/clothing-optional-days-add-to-english-gardens-appeal.xml ...


especially vis-a-vis Harbin Hot Springs in northern California ...

http://harbin.org ...


and my actual / virtual Harbin ethnography, here ...

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com ...

for 3+ draft chapters plus much more ...






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Pine Grosbeak: The bubble-shaped Harbin Domes are an ephemeral vision up on the hillside, across the valley, and a little paradise with warm pools

Harbin ethnography:


... As an ethnographer of this actual Harbin Conference Center, it's occurred to me recently to actually be at the Conference Center while I write about it, in the 'now,' so as to 'rif' with it and my experience of this building and its spaces and beauty (these blog entries also refer to the Conference Center: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harbin%20Domes, some written while within the Conference Center), both with (perhaps at a dance and a workshop) and without other people present, as a new kind of anthropological, participant-observation method.

The bubble-shaped Harbin Domes are an ephemeral vision up on the hillside, across the valley, and a little paradise with two warm pools, which are also not geothermally heated. When there, the bubble domes surround the two lovely pools. The Dome area is quiet and serene, and the sand-colored Domes are light and pleasant to be among. The 4-5 (?) Domes themselves circle around the backside of the 2 pools, allowing for far-reaching views down and across the Harbin valley, when in the park-like enclosed space of the Domes. The Domes have an alternative feeling - a kind of hippie space, for alternative living. One rectangular room is built on top of the tallest Dome, and seems to be a kind of room a hippy could look off into the distance from, colorful towels and art hanging out the windows. There's also a community kitchen here – which feels a little like a youth hostel's. And the bas-relief swirls both on the outside of the Domes, and in the rooms themselves add to the bubble-like, rounded, moving, hippy, organic, hot springs' retreat center sense of the place. The Dome rooms are for rent as guest rooms. A few years ago, ownership and operation of the Domes transferred back to Heart Consciousness Church from the School of Shiatsu and Massage, for better management, I think. In the long parking lot, many solar panels act also as car ports. There is also a little smoking canopy-tent. As a Watsu School, and a place for workshops, the relatively small Dome complex is intimate and relaxed, facilitating the further creative development and teaching of Watsu (water shiatsu).

The cobb and bale Harbin Temple, or straw bale and mud hippie heyima, with a wonderful roof of spiraling, curved beams, lovely ocher, cosmic floor, and swervy walls, both outside and inside was built around 2005 in Mainside. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_grosbeak





(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2011/03/bubble-shaped-harbin-domes-are.html - March 15, 2011)

Hemiphractus fasciatus: Harbin Hot Springs' videos online

Harbin Hot Springs' videos online I found online recently:




"Maharaji's Dream" Harbin Hot Springs Jeff Palmer Memorial Concert 2008


(This video no longer exists on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj1aYhJLqlY

(There was beautiful dancing here).



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Waters of Life (Watsu documentary where Harold Dull talks about Watsu's origins at Harbin and much more)

http://vimeo.com/338135




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"Groove Time" Harbin Hot Springs Jeff Palmer Memorial Concert 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO1_Ef1NTOg


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"Encore" Harbin Hot Springs Jeffrey Palmer Memorial Concert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y-Qb1v94Fg



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Hoosh in Harbin Hot Springs, CA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibQQubwU7vs


Part 2 - Trip to Harbin Hot Spring Park, Napa Valley, CA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyCF7LxdJY



Part 3 - Going to Harbin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ0ls6Qx1vg


Part - 5 Hiking at Harbin....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIwsSJVdSFs




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Harbin Hot Springs (Poem)

Randolph, Bob (tecoloteblanco). 1989. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziB2mx8NPOg Harbin Hot Springs]. youtube.com




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Torrent - Harbin Hot Springs- California

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alYNIu2VEqE




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Watsu - Wake Me Up Yin Slower

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dg4wzqeKlU




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Watsu - Wake Me Up Yang Faster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTVjKvmV_8



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Crystal blankets, Light & Sound Technolgy with Sacred Geometry @ NATIVE SYNERGY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOwj1okQ4A



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Watsu Center Retrospective Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbTH2cKitK4


Watsu Center Retrospective Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLa2175GR3k



Watsu Center Retrospective Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fihxaAmIUEY



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Hula Hooping at Harbin - AquaLammas Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnB5O2SWxi4



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Harbin Wedding Mellissa & Richard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSG5NtpAafg&NR=1



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JOY, Laughter Creativity & Play - A Laughter Yoga Workshop (at Harbin Hot Springs 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhw8kWm_BmQ



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The Workshop (2007) Part 1 of 14 full film movie online (filmed at Harbin

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xccyc2_the-workshop-2007-part-1-of-14-full_shortfilms


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Do Open Relationships Work? "The Workshop" debuts at Tribeca (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeZLJg0kPmM



Do Open Relationships Work? "The Workshop" debuts at Tribeca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeZLJg0kPmM




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Remembering Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3hLKWhXXKs



Paul Lowe clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7TEgX3TeV4



Paul Lowe on living in the moment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e07mN7NrcWE



Paul Lowe on monogamy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqcF98Af5I



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Stan Dale founded the Human Awareness Institute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHz-U-4KZnE


Stan invites you to be love 24 hours a day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpAGNeWFyxY



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Tantric Yoga for Lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtpuEJMnEk




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Tantra Workshops with Steve & Lokita Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9IxTYtEFz4



The Breath of Tantric Love-Steve Carter Part3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HPjLLvhGEA



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TES AND THE GOD SQUAD (Polyamory at Harbin Hot Springs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MG-ynwOWAo


TES AND THE GOD SQUAD (PART 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_-HboHSIE


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How to Tie the Harbin Knot by TIAT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPHy96BYXFc



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Heather Salmon: Changes on Mother Earth

http://vimeo.com/12128074




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Watsu - Playful Water Therapy Session with Art Photography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjm1frwpqo



MATERNITY WATSU FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6TzbXbTqjs



water dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNmnXlifxQ



Aqualana® und Watsu - 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLZc-T3PmGg




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shiva shambo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtj_awht-bI



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Dance Awakening at Harbin Hotsprings -1

http://vimeo.com/4316680




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watsu week 2007 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9l7-FCLWQA



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Celebrating Humanity with Marianne Neuwirth (Contact Improv)

(The video was taken by 6 year old Shalene at this year's Memorial Day Contact Improvisation Jam at Harbin Hot Springs. It is of a dance choreographed and performed by Marianne Neuwirth to celebrate humanity. Many of us joyfully accepted her invitation to join her in the celebration. Thank you, Marianne! for embodying our wonder.)

http://vimeo.com/5258458



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And ...


"The Making of Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as Ethnographic Field Site in Second Life & Open Simulator" - by Scott MacLeod in April 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nhvcHw54GE
(Also accessible here: http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm ).

(Virtual ethnography: I found these in about a two hour search; I was surprised I couldn't find more, especially on youtube.com. All of these videos either happen at Harbin Hot Springs in northern California, or they've inspired the Watsu in Italy, for example).





(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/11/hemiphractus-fasciatus-harbin-hot.html - November 28, 2010)