Sorry this one's late

I personally would love go to Second Life (SL), but every time I try my computer crashes. Having said that, I love to go to museums; you might say I’m a museum junky. In my prior life, I was a student of art. Sorry Dr Walters. One of my greatest trills was to see Monet up close; but I had to go to Paris to do it. To be able to visit museums from all over the world would be incredible.

Another example of how virtual environments could change some ones experience, is Michelangelo’s Dying Slave; here is a picture. No where on the Web will you see the back of the sculpture, but the back of the sculpture has its own story; here it is.

My wife and I toured the Louvre and the guide made a point of explaining the back of the sculpture. I quote “you will see a monkey, only partially carved, grasps the left shin, representing art as mere "aping" (mimesis) or suggesting earthly passions.”

Here’s the real story explaining the monkey. Michelangelo goes home early, leaving these two under paid guys to clean the shop. Instead of cleaning the shop, they hide behind the sculpture, waiting for the shift to end. Time drags on, so one of them said “Watch this” chisels a monkey’s face in the back of the sculpture. So you see “if all you pay is peanut, you get is monkeys to work for you”. You may ask how do I know that my story is true? I ran a cleaning crew on the third shift at Sea World of Florida for nine years.

If Dying Slave was in a virtual environment you could see this for yourselves.