piping.htm ! This gig went well, was fun and it was nice to connect with people thru the music I make, which many seemed to enjoy, Check out too Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes at WUaS for open teaching and learning and I give online lessons as well.

March 18, 2016, 11:22 am

≫ Next: Astatotilapia: The idea is for YOU eventually to be able to click through INTO the virtual Harbin in Google Street View that is 3D, interactive and film-realistic, and soak in the Harbin warm pool, but especially to be able to talk with Ishvara or Heartsong or other Harbin residents, for example, mostly through film-realistic, 3D, increasingly interactive and realistic scripted avatar bots, that eventually develop their own agency, but also potentially in person, such as in OpenSim or in Second Life and even, as virtual visitor, or tourist, do your own ethnographic field work, University of California Professors Emeriti Dean MacCannell and Nelson Graburn, I hope virtual worlds especially a mature and sophisticated Google Street View with OpenSim in all 7,097 languages will become an important new generative text/source for STEM research, Going back to the previous working title for my Harbin book, with its redundancy but clarity re the key concept of "virtual"

≪ Previous: Emerald Bay: Place-making and visual media, A first foray into a closely related topic was a study of St. Kilda in Scotland as virtual place in nascent multimedia in 2003-2004, Similarities to the place-centricity of young Muslim women co-creating Copenhagen and Denmark on their smart phones in your talk, virtual "place" resources here in my blog label on place - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/place - and a few more place-focused papers I've done synchronistically here on my academe page - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm, And it's a key theme in my upcoming Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs Ethnography - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html .

Glad to have piped yesterday in a St. Patrick's Day Beer Bash in Mountain View, California - http://www.scottmacleod.com/piping.htm ! This gig went well, was fun and it was nice to connect with people thru the music I make, which many seemed to enjoy, a kind of "flow" experience (in the zone, challenge at the right level and re lyrical musical piping).

Check out too Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes' link at WUaS below for open teaching and learning and I give online lessons as well.

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Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes at WUaS for open teaching and learning -
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

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I give online lessons as well - http://www.scottmacleod.com/piping.htm.