Welcome to the website of the Bright Corporation. We create and trade in the virtual world Second Life. If you haven't heard of this, don't visit www.secondlife.com, or you will be trapped like the rest of us.
Here you will find information about our company, products, rental homes, bespoke development services, and franchises, plus a certain amount of inane chatter which seemed a good idea to us at the time. If you have questions or comments, contact us, if you'd like our customers' view, read their feedback, and visit us in Second Life at the .
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer
The World Cup is not about 22 men kicking a ball around in improbably fluorecent orangey football boots. It is something far more important: something beautiful, unifying, even transcendent. It is about private corporations marketing themselves with bizarrely irrelevant football motifs in their advertising, in an effort to associate themselves with a temporary global mania.
In a principled satire on such commercial cynicism, the Bright Corporation is proud to announce the release of our Bright World Cup 2010 supporters shirts: 32 free tees with the names, badges, and national flags of each team still in the competition.
Get yours from the : before your team is knocked out and you lose interest.
(For a complete list of our freebies, click here.)
What follows is absolutely true.
Early in 2010, the charming Pierre Jarmeus contacted the Bright Corporation, having chosen us as the subject for an analysis his team from the Stockholm School of Economics wished to make of a virtual company.
Would CEO Shan Bright allow herself to be interviewed...?
From: shanbright@eml.cc
To: 20967@student.hhs.se
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 7:16 AM
What are the resources and capabilities of the company?
One small woman with an old computer. And a cat.
How has the company performed in relation to other companies in the same strategic group?
We aim to avoid strategic groups.
What have been the reasons for superior or inferior performance specific to your company?
The CEO's refreshingly tenantive grip on reality has been responsible for both.
To read the rest of this interview, and what the Stockholm School of Economics made of it, click here...
The MetaCard from First Meta promised to bring to Second Life the easily acquired, crushing, and ultimately unpayable personal debts which Visa and Access brought to first life. Frankly, we didn't care, we just wanted the money, so Bright Corporation has accepted the card since February 2008, shortly after its introduction.
Our friendly virtual loansharks have had to admit, though, that a credit card with a limit of about €10 was actually a silly idea, and have withdrawn it, as announced here: so sorry, we can't accept it any more. If you're too mean to buy Lindens, too dense to earn them, and too handicapped by morality to slide your curvy or muscly bits up and down a dance pole while people slide money into your thong, you can bugger off.
If the whining wimpy little Cinderella and the pompous, pretty-boy plutocrat Prince 'I think I'm bloody' Charming have ever irritated you too, you'll be glad to know that they've finally been caught and strung up: and the Bright Corporation is proud to report that they are hanging from Bright Cuffs. Our thanks to English Damsel at deviantart.com for this image.
That'll teach you to run off leaving the kitchen filthy, slut.
Our thanks to Teq Hutchinson who has created a tutorial on the creation of BDSM toys which use our CISS system to chain those lucky submissives trapped squirmingly in their grasp. If you don't know what BDSM stands for, can't understand why someone would wish to be chained to something less movable than themselves, and don't find yourself associating with either the leasher or leashee in the tiny image taken from the tutorial here, just ignore this news item and return to your flower arranging and vague sense of disappointment with your life. Otherwise, click here.
Though you may not know the name Miffy Fluffy, you probably know his work: as Miffy created the free MLP pose-ball system used in a million sex-beds across the grid. MLP was a gift to creators, but didn't support chains for those of us who love to exchange power as well as fluids. This was why BrightCorp created the CISS system, which adds chains to sex toys, including MLP toys.
We were therefore delighted to be contacted by Miffy to discuss the integration of chains into MLP's commercial successor, the extraordinary and powerful XPOSE system: and were happy to offer some advice on the technology involved. The result, XPOSE 4.0, is now being shipped: complete with support for chains, and a specially presented set of Bright Cuffs for XPOSE, which lovers can receive free through XPOSE's menu system.
Haven't tried XPOSE? Do. It lets a creator focus on creativity: with much of the programming done, what else is there to do? Haven't tried chains? Do. It lets a lover focus entirely on pleasure: until they're unchained, what else...
(For a list of all our freebies, including CISS and Bright Cuffs, click here.)
TAVA's home in Second LifeWhen BrightCorp CEO Shan Bright is wandering the grid and comes across Bright buildings, she generally makes a point of visiting to say hello. It is because of this that she has been thrown out by the Bright Security System she herself designed more often than any actual griefer in Second Life.
On visiting a Bright Primera she spotted, though, her technological child welcomed her in in the name of the Transgender American Veterans Association. This RL organisation, with a site at www.tavausa.org, seeks fair treatment of transgender veterans and serving members of the armed forces. In Second Life, the organisation is represented by Jenelle Levenque, their national treasurer.
We are proud to have supplied this group, and would like to recommend that if you think that they can help you, or you can help them, you visit them in-world at . Jenelle has created a website about TAVA's work in SL, at www.tavasl.jenelle.us.
The non-Euclidean Geometry of Bottoms
here demonstrated by mathematician
Professor Dolores O'CurvyThe free Bright AO (or animation overrider) today broke the 30,000 units shipped barrier: 24,104 bought through XStreet (from here), and another 5,998 collected from the .
1,845 XStreet users voted the product an average rating of 4.2 stars out of five: and ironically it is only today, as the product passes the thirty thousand landmark, that it has dropped from the top of XStreet's most popular freebies list: a position it has held since February - over six months ago.
Now examine the illustration above carefully, though without actually licking the screen. Does your bottom move like this? If not, get yourself a Bright AO. As a woman, it will add burning sensuality to your motion. As a Gorean 'Master' called MightyWeapon Vlarg, it will at least give us all a giggle.
(For a complete list of our freebies, click here.)
PS. Don't worry MightyWeapon, there's one for boys too. No reason why programmers with whispy RL beards living with their mums shouldn't have fun: or enjoy their beautiful slave Kajira, whose RL beards are even wispier.
Not 'Mothercare'We recently reported Linden Lab's plans to protect the virtual world from naughtiness by forcing all venues offering sexual products or services to move to a ghetto for deviants. Feeling perhaps that 'ghetto for deviants' was far too insulting, offensive, and frankly honest a name for their policy, they called the new continent Zindra.
The Bright Corporation are therefore proud to announce the opening of our new store in Zindra. And to protect the sensibilities of anyone who might be offended by the knowledge that humanity exists only through generations of energetic and continuous fucking which evolution has made intensely pleasurable to us to keep us squelching away, we too have sought to make the nature of our new store clear:
* We have called it... The Adultshop.
* We have painted it in a sinful black.
And in case there are any religious fundamentalists, members of the Linden Governance Team, or other keyboard soldiers in the War on Visible Nipples who might still have missed the Satanic nature of our shop...
* We have put huge red horns on the roof.
Our Megashop - which will continue to sell our main range of gadgets, vehicles, houses, furniture and art - is also moving to a larger site. Our old megashop in Pouncival will be closing soon: so please note the new addresses:
And welcome to the ghetto. If you see a Linden, be sure to flash them: it's Zindra, they can't complain.
(For a list of all our shops, click here.)
An artist's impression: despite several
attempts to explain to our artist that
'Minotaur' was simply our winner's name,
and not necessarly...Once again, our prize-winning investor has no profile picture, and we are reduced to providing an artist's impression, which...
Sighs.
Anyway, you are invited to join Ellcom as a member of the Bright Corporation Investors group: and each month we choose an investor - who has our main store in their picks - to receive L$1,000 credit to spend on themselves there. Join the group, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Lady Fictional-Device's heels echo down the corridoor. Boards on the wall read 'Liberty', 'Pursuit of Happiness', 'Liberty', 'Pursuit of Happiness'... The place is entirely deserted: not a sign of 'Life'.
A glass door: into it are etched the words 'Be nice to someone today'. The lady smiles. It isn't what she's looking for, but it's a good sign.
Through the door, she sees the back of a swivel chair at the centre of a white, circular room. The chair turns. "Shan Bright!" she cries. "So you are behind all these terrible sign-based puns."
Bright smiles chillingly, pointing to one of a series of large framed prints running round the wall, bearing legends like '8:04', 'NOON', 'Half past six'... "You know what they are, don't you?"
Lady Fictional-Device feels cold sweat on her skin. "No, no, it can't be..."
"Yes, you poor helpless fool... they are signs of the times."
The Bright Sign is a sign. Drop in a texture, it will display it as a sign. The sign will spookily turn to face you wherever you are. The sign can even make strange noises, give people things, and send you IMs when it is clicked. It's cool, copyable, and free. Get it already.
(For a list of freebies without this nonsense, click here.)
Top: BrightCorp in the Welcome Centre
Bottom: Our main store in Legend CityMentioning Second Life in the virtual world Legend City Online generally goes down like pinching the widow's bum at a funeral. (Well, I thought it would cheer her up.) This rival metaverse is a place of refuge from Linden Lab: and many of the refugees have grim stories to tell and - as I discovered - a yet grimmer determination to tell them. One wonders whether Linden Lab's sexual apartheid proposals (see below) will swell their numbers.
Legend City is one of a number of virtual realities built on variants of the open source OpenSim software: and while it is still very noticably being tested and developed, it has advanced dramatically over the last six months.
The Bright Corporation is proud to announce that as well as establishing a store in this growing metaverse, they have been granted a spot in the prestigious LCO Welcome Centre. At present, we offer only a small selection of our freebies in Legend City, though we expect to expand this range.
So, Second Life getting you down? Being herded into a ghetto to avoid offending bigots with public displays of a sexuality that disgusts their prejudices? Visit Legend City Online to discover a new world, make new friends, and bitch about the Lindens with them.
BrightCorp CEO Shan Bright and her
beloved, beautiful, slave and ponygirl
Cail: both BDSM and both proud!With the slogan "Your World, Your Imagination" Linden Lab invite you into a world of absolute freedom, then desperately try to control what you do there. Not like booted black-clad fascisti, whom many Second Lifers might at least find quietly exciting, but like local government officials on a film classification sub-committee. The realm of pure ideas is being policed by failed municipal bureaucrats.
Free people will do what they want to do. Free them from physical risk, jealous partners, sexually transmitted disease, and above all social hyprocrisy, and Second Life reveals that what they want to do is have sex. Filthy, fantastic, dark, controlling, cuddly, gentle, violent, loving, promiscuous, obscene, glorious sex. With each other. With bizarre tentacled creatures. With inanimate objects. "I watched while I had sex with myself", admits triple breasted furry autophiliac Voluptua Button in this week's 'Virtual Spank' magazine.
And this is a problem for Linden Lab: because while cities around the world protest against international monopolies and the economic crisis they have created, Second Life's managers are on all fours, wiggling their bottom, and moist to be globalised until their teeth rattle. However, the corporate giants they fantasise about accommodating aren't interested. McDonald's don't wish to raise their golden arches next door to the Golden Tower, where public convenience for some is so imaginatively combined with private pleasure for others.
To Linden Lab, real products of "Your Imagination" such as the Golden Tower are weeds in their corporate flower-beds: healthy, fast-growing, vigorous, and a bloody nuisance. Under new rules, they will be pulled: 'adult' content will be moved to a new Perverts' Ghetto, so that we might leave Main Street Second Life acceptable to the fastidious tastes of the Major Brands(tm). The same brands which would have refused in previous times to employ a black man, offer service to a Jew, rent rooms to a gay couple, and today would still turn away partners joined by a leash.
Our message to Linden Lab? Spurn us at your peril. Globally Bland plc may tell you they'll love you for ever if you dump your current girlfriend, but if you piss off all the Dom/mes, subs, shemales, trans-sluts, bois, yiffies, escorts, camgirls, slaves and gynemimetophiliacs* who have been so faithful to you, big businesses may still ignore you: partly because you'll have put your own active userbase into decline, but mainly because they will remain unimaginative, lumbering, oafish monoliths.
If virtual realities have a future at all, it is on a scale too large to be controlled. The World Wide Web lies outside the control of any single company or even government: and virtual reality will do the same, or die. And you'll note that on the web McDonalds do share a medium with the beautiful 'bondage-loving-plumpers.com' they helped nourish. The corporate trolls will come when the rest of us have built a virtual reality too large and lively for them to ignore, providing the Lindens don't stop us doing so.
So add your name to the 2,500 who have voted against Linden Lab's sexual apartheid via Second Life Jira MISC-2727. Then log in and say, do, or create something obscene with someone you love. Your world. Your imagination.
(* Look it up like I did.)
The new Bright Warehouse... oooh...The Bright AO has been the most popular product on XStreet SL for three months, and web orders for our products are growing faster than the queue for the toilets at a water sports convention. To cope with the deliveries, we've installed additional web servers in a new warehouse in Ilithyia. Go see it, it's gorgeous. At BrightCorp, even the warehouses make you moist.
The Bright Rapida: motoring so good, it
can cause you to take your clothes offSondra Soulstar was so overcome with pleasure on driving her new Bright Rapida that she simply had to stop and, er, take off her top. She sent us this picture, writing "I hope my face (and tits) will help move many Rapidas for you!" When Sondra isn't swooning against her car, she manages Club FM in Audy Lucrecia (28,58,304): which on the evidence here, must surely be worth a visit.
Civilization is the story of humanity's continuing struggle to facilitate the buying of shoes.
Global industrialisation, developments in the arts, and the evolution of complex economic and social systems have been driven by the need to create ever greater numbers of ever more beautiful shoes and distribute them to women finally feed from the barbarism of bare, healthy, comfortable, unfashionable feet.
It is a little known and highly inaccurate statistic that every third prim in Second Life is part of a shoe: and yet, women of both sexes in our virtual world continue to face delays of between one and two minutes between buying their shoes and wearing them.
The brute fact is that many shoes are sold in boxes, to open a box you must rez it, but most shops are no-rez areas. You are therefore forced to interupt your shopping, or wait to try on your shoes: a psychological dilemna considered cruel and unusual punishment even in US states which routinely electrocute one resident in four.
The Bright Corporation is proud to announce a solution. The Bright Packer allows any Second Life creater to package their intems for sale in a single prim which can then be distributed and unpacked by their customers instantly and even in no-rez areas. It's free, and it's available from the .
The Bright Corporation: because immediate gratification is a basic human right.
(For other humanitarian freebies, click here.)
Oh, so fluffy!This wonderfully fluffy Investor is Elseer Rau, whose profile describes him as chatty and makes the delicious offer "If you are interested in chatting or want to brag about something you've done or seen, feel free to IM." What are you waiting for? Call and tell him how wonderful you are!
You are invited to join Elseer as a member of the Bright Corporation Investors group: and each month we choose an investor - who has our main store in their picks - to receive L$1,000 credit to spend on themselves there. Join the group, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
It's official. The International Society for Improbable But Convenient Fictional Surveys reports that breasts are the world's favourite things.
Runners up were chocolate, money, oral sex, heroin (described by panel members as 'just so moreish'), and Bright Corporation Rentals.
And BCR is now making another challenge on the bouncy poll-leaders supremacy by slashing Bright Sky Loft rents from $200 to $150 a week, Bright Sky Chalets from $120 to $99 a week, and introducing two new homes: the huge and luxurious Bright Sky Suites for $250 a week (with 150 prims!) and the chic and astonishingly good value Bright Apartments for only $75 a week.
Bright Corporation Rentals: the perfect place to enjoy your breasts, or those of a friend.
(For more information about our rentals, click here.)
Good girl. Now the other.It would of course be a perverse abuse of this blog to use it to send private messages from the officers of the Bright Corporation.
But then, CEO Shan Bright has always been an enthusiastic supporter of perverse abuse.
So when her much loved slave commented that she sometimes reads this page to hear her Mistress's voice and brighten a dull afternoon at work, she decided to leave her a message:
Hello, my darling pet :) Leave your desk, go to the toilets, find a cubicle, and spank that lovely bottom to punish your terrible inattention at work. Then go back to your desk, sit down gingerly, and continue to daydream about me as your employer slides into insolvency.
And those of you who aren't my slaves... admit it, you're suddenly tempted too, aren't you? Submit! Go discover your submissive nature through Mistress Shan. May the office buildings of the world ring with the happy sound of slapped flesh and tiny intakes of breath.
Perverse abuse: more fun than office work.
Right to left: Shan,
Admon, Loverly, and Loverly's bottomBrightCorp welcomes back two of our own: Admon Dagger & Loverly Writer.
Admon became our company's Chief Scientist on its formation in February 2007. He built the Bright Avispa, while CEO and real life Vespa scooter enthusiast Shan Bright stood around pointing at bits of it with demands they should be "curvier". He also designed most of the Bright Furniture collection, and his photographic work was the subject of the Admon Dagger Exhibition (well, duh), hosted by the Corporation in April that year. This dramatically naturalistic collection of landscape and macro images is still available from our Megashop as the Bright Box of Dagger.
Loverly lobbied for and became the first member of the Bright Corporation Investors group, and was finally called in by Shan to model for the curvy bits of the Bright Avispa.
The irritating and dangerously addictive Real Life kept the couple offline for most of the past year, and we wish to welcome them a very happy return to unreality. For an emotional insight into Admon's soul, do come and see his art at the . For an aesthetic tribute to Loverly's bottom, try the Avispa.
(For more information about our art collections, click here, and for our vehicles, click here.)
The Bright Corporation has a new logo: an eye with an open hand at its centre.
This new design was achieved through a process of careful corporate introspection, extensive focus group analysis, and a crazed chief executive with a PC and a supply of powerful psychoactive drugs.
Her aim was to capture in graphic form the concepts of quality, imagination, and a desire to take over the world. "Annoying Linden Lab by reversing their eye-in-hand theme", she commented before passing out at the press launch, "was just a bonus".
The new logo was launched alongside a new motto: vision, power, happiness. This was greeted as "exciting" by some, "motivational" by others, and "the kind of chilling, sinister euphemism for a ruthless secret plan to take over the world which could only have been written by a crazed company executive on powerful psychoactive drugs", by one particularly astute observer, now deceased.
Coming to a tank near you.
The Bright Corporation has long supported The Village, situated on the Dolphin sim and themed on the Patrick McGoohan's cult 1960s TV series The Prisoner. We developed their website, which you can find at www.secondvillage.co.uk, and our largest outlet outside our Megashop in Mizar can be found at .
We were therefore both thrilled and flattered when the Village's creator Catty Erde filmed a short video called Bright Corporation at The Village: in which you will see our store, and the good lady herself driving a Bright Rapida car (styled after that driven by McGoohan in the TV series) and sailing the Bright Marina powerboat.
We were even more thrilled with a backing track so achingly funky that even in the most ascetic and modernist of souls, it will create a powerful subconscious urge wear flares.
Because we're gorgeous.
Let's face it. We're gorgeous. When flat tummies can be had by dragging a mouse three inches across a desk, rather than sweating through 10 sit-ups a day, few of us choose to bring our imperfections into Second Life. A little curve perhaps, to suggest that we're not fashion victims - you know, like her - but not that bulgy bit under your knicker elastic or the slightly squashy insides of your thighs which don't stop moving when the rest of you does.
So here is a posing stand worthy of that beautiful - yet idiosyncratically human - physique. The Bright Posing Stand makes you float still with your arms and legs lightly spread out so you can adjust your nipple clamps without wriggling, as does any posing stand worth the name. But it can also play other any other animation you drop in: so you can admire their chains swinging while you walk, or gaze at yourself kneeling in quivering submissive ecstacy.
Or you could just use it to try on shoes.
The stand can light you from all sides, in a variety of colours, and even project backgrounds behind you, so you can see how your dress will look against the stone walls of your lovers' castle, or when having a roll on the grass with his curvy female PA, who looks almost as hot as you do.
And it's free! Go fetch one from the , and have some quality me time.
(For other freebies worthy of a stunner like yourself, click here.)
Happiness...
...is a Bright Collar.
Submissive? Listen my pet: this gorgoeously detailed symbol of BDSM sexuality will animate your body, or, more thrillingly, give power over it to another. It can be recoloured and retextured from a menu, locked about your neck, leashed, and used drag and control you to your secret joy.
Dominant? While your slave is enjoying the frisson of helplessness, you can enjoy the fact that the collar is free, copyable and transferable, so if your human toy runs off, or you simply forget where you chained them, at least you won't be stuck paying L$600 for another collar. Replacing slaves is easy: good collars are hard to come by.
The Bright Collar incorporates support for the Open Collar menu system, the Restrained Life viewer, the LockGuard and LockMeister chain systems, and linking to our free Bright Cuffs. Get one, and leash yourself to someone squelchy today.
(For a complete list of our freebies, click here.)
Three weeks at the top: The Bright AOThe Bright Corporation is proud to annouce that is has now introduced 8,000 gorgeously wiggling bottoms to Second Life: a concept which must surely dizzy imagination and create squelchiness in anyone who isn't actually dead.
The Bright AO, complete with wiggly animations created by Vesta Martynov of Something Spunky Animations, was released on January 6th (see below), and on February 7th became the most downloaded freebie product of the 10,000 listed on XStreet: a position it has now held for three weeks. Combined "sales" from XStreet, the Bright Megashop, and the network of Bright Minishops have reached over 8,000. The vast majority of the 400 ratings awarded to the product at XStreet have given it five stars out of five: and a number of developers are now loading Bright AOs to distribute their own animations.
It is your duty to Second Life to wiggle your bottom: so if you don't have a Bright AO, get one free from XStreet or the today!
(For a complete list of our freebies, click here.)
What does one do in a virtual world? Role-play favourite sci-fi movies? Recreate the excitement and violence of combat? Find romance and fall in love? Indulge dark sensual fantasies?
Or perhaps all of these at once? Imagine... every avatar stares as you stand chin-to-upturned-bucket with Vader. Around you, rebel forces and Imperial storm-troopers unleash electric death on each other. "But Vader," you mutter... "You're... beautiful". Vader smiles, though you're not quite sure how you know he's smiling, and holds up a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs, three cod, and a packet of lard. He breathes, in those sexy, asthmatic tones... "Come over to... the dark side."
Or you could just watch television.
And the Bright TV is the television to watch. It shows videos, web pages, images, and plays music. If you wish, it can be set to allow each person viewing it to watch different videos simultaneously. And if you rent out homes on a shared parcel, it will even let you set up a public ariel, so your tenants can watch their own Bright TVs without deeding them: all for only L$60!
And after a hard days adventuring, just wipe off the lard, and kick back with a Bright TV.
(For a complete list of our furniture, click here.)
Doesn't do naughty: so just stop it.This adorable furry is Dahlia Rhiadra, who sweetly writes that they enjoy building, so if you'd like anything built... "just ask. And no, that asking doesn't include anything naughty, my apologies." So, whatever it was you were thinking, stop it.
You are invited to join Dahlia as a member of the Bright Corporation Investors group: and each month we choose an investor - who has our main store in their picks - to receive L$1,000 credit to spend on themselves there. Join the group, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Web distributors XStreet and onrez were recently bought by Linden Labs. XStreet is being slowly integrated into Second Life, while today, onrez was closed. BrightCorp listed its first product with SL Exchange and SL Boutique - as they were then called - on the same day almost exactly two years ago. We are sorry to see XStreet lose its independence, and will miss onrez's better features, maddeningly silly drop-box scripting, and endearing habit of not charging commission.
We naturally continue to sell through XStreet, because we want the money, but customers vaguely annoyed with Linden Lab's creeping monopolisation of our virtual world can rest assured that we will do so disapprovingly. We also continue to sell through apez.biz, and rebellious consumers are invited to strike a blow against XStreet by buying huge numbers of our products there. Remember: the more you spend, the more Linden Lab will get the message.
(For more information about our outlets, in-world and out, click here.)
Second Life is a vast database describing a virtual world, connected to a global network, which allows you to enter an imagined space as if it were real...
...and walk like a duck.
Picture the young Philip Rosedale, founder of Linden Lab, pitching this idea to his financial backers. "We love the 'virtual world' idea," they assure him. "We get the whole 'future of the internet' thing," they soothe. "But why..." they look at each other, awkwardly, "...why should people from all over the globe log into a virtual reality... to walk like ducks?"
And yet, as each new citizen arrives to explore our mind-engineered cities and breath-taking pixel landscapes, their first priority is to stop walking like a bloody duck.
BrightCorp are proud to announce our own solution to the problem: the Bright AO or 'animation overrider'. Walk like Mariyln Monroe, or John Wayne, or Marilyn Monroe carrying John Wayne on the horse's day off. But whatever you do, never again walk like a duck.
The Bright AO will also let you control your facial expression, and use signals, gestures, and body language. And it is free and full perms: so if you make animations, you can use it to distribute (or even sell) your own sets of animations.
To illustrate this, as well as the 'default' animations for men and women, the Bright AO box contains animation sets created especially for its launch by the sweet and talented Vesta Martynov of Something Spunky animations, possibly the least duck-like woman in Second Life: and what higher praise can there be?
Collect your Bright AO from the .
(For more information about our freebies, click here.)
No threat to journalistic integrityBright Corporation Investors member Jayden Bingyi won $500 in our December draw.
We usually research a short piece about our prize winner, and we're not going to skimp this month just because there's Xmas wine and chocolate waiting. So: Jayden is (a) terribly nice, (b) a Bright Investor, and (c) has at least $500.
This is Shan Bright, Chief Executive Officer of the Bright Corporation, signing off. Merry Xmas!
(Join the Bright Corporation Investors: next year, the monthly prize goes up to $1,000 a month to spend at the Bright Megastore!)
Xmas is a time of hope, joy, and making sure you've got a nicer tree than your neighbours.
This powerful combination of heart-warming beauty and icy-cool prestige is nowhere better symbolised than in our Bright Xmas Tree: a minimalist white glass twirl with a ribbon of moving colour beneath a delicate fall of snowflakes.
You will sigh at it's beautiful and almost child-like simplicity, and be warmed by the knowledge that not only does your place look better than theirs, but that you didn't even have to pay for the tree.
UPDATE: Having released the tree described above as a freebie, we received IMs from those who wished to (a) have better trees than their neighbours even though short of prim space, or (b) to be done with it, and simply chain their neighbours up in a cage. We have therefore added two trees to the box: a white fir with gold fairy lights in a single sculpty prim, and a BDSM xmas-tree shaped steel meshed cage with glowing red star. Enjoy!
Collect yours at the .
(For more information about our freebies, click here.)
The Bright Cristalina is the perfect home. Its sculptural design is stunning, but that's irrelevant.
It's spacious, airy, and pleasant to be in, but who cares?
It comes with a menu system which allows you to change the decor from country home to city bachelor/ette pad at the flick of a switch, but what of it?
The Bright Cristalina will reduce your visitors to resentful envy within seconds of their teleporting in.
Now that's architecture.
See a Cristalina show home at our .
(Click here to see our entire range of buildings.)
Get a free copy of the Bright Dispenser from the . Fill it with lovely free things: gifts, product demos, notecards of useful information, landmarks. Put it in your shop or venue. Watch the people attracted by the offer of lovely free things come and collect them. Listen to the tinkle of coins as they buy other things while they are collecting their lovely free things. Become rich. Give up work, attract beautiful partners and enjoy a luxurious existence.
Yes! Change your life with a free Bright Dispenser.
(For more information about our freebies, click here.)
Six is another winner without a profile
picture, so here's a picture of a kitten.
Aww, cute.Bright Corporation Investors member Six Alter won $500 in our November draw.
Each month, a member of our investors group who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks" receives $500.
Six writes that she "wants to be like Barbie - that bitch has everything". Well, everything except body hair, a third digit for her IQ, and anything which isn't hot pink in colour. She must wake every morning screaming.
You are invited to join Six in the Bright Corporation Investors group. You too Barbie: we don't discriminate against the unnaturally smooth, the unspeakably waterproof, or the inability to see short wave-length light. Just visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the cash prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Stop reading this in Bill Gates' Explorer of Evil! Safari? Schwafari! Fart in the face of Firefox!
If you're a true Second Lifer, you browse in Second Life, using the Bright Web Browser.
This in-world display allows you to show and browse web pages within Second Life. And unlike simple web-on-a-prim toys, it allows you to scroll your web pages, so you can read them all the way down, and switch from page to page via its bookmarks, its icon-bar, and even by saying page addresses in chat!
Come and try it for yourself, at the : and help us, once and for all, stamp out the human hopelessness whose name is... Opera.
(For more information about our browser, click here.)
Residents of Bright Corporation Rentals are simply smarter, more beautiful, and above all happier than other people.
But scientists from the World Bureau for Improbable Research have recently warned that their joie de vivre may reach dangerous levels, threatening the sense of gloom needed at a time of financial crisis.
The threat to world misery was created by the announcement that prim allowances in these already popular skyboxes were being raised by a third, for no more rent.
'We will undertake mood restraint,' said a WBIR speaker, 'via cognitive remodelling, behavioural contentment disincentive, and hitting these smug bastards with wet fish.'
(For more information about our rentals, click here.)
Oh darling, they're just...
...gorgeous.
And free.
Short of a product which brings world peace and tastes of chocolate, what more could you want?
(For more information about our freebies, click here.)
(Astra's profile pic is a little unclear, so
here's a picture of their money instead.)Bright Corporation Investors member Astar Hermit won $500 in our October draw.
Each month, a member of our investors group who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks" receives $500.
Traditionally, we've written a little puff about our winners based on their profile descriptions, but Astar hasn't written one, so all we know about them is that they have $500. But that clearly makes them better than anyone with only $400, so that's not bad.
Would you like to be a better person? Not in any namby-pamby indefinable, nebulous, tricksy 'spiritual' way, but a measurably better person? $500-worth of better person? Simply join Bright Corporation Investors, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the cash prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
In May we announced the launch of our Bright Dealership box, describing it as "a collection of vendors more tightly packed with goodies than a Second Life transvestite's bra.".
In order to maintain this analogy, our allegorical transvestite (did you know you could be an allegorical transvestite?) has abandoned the 'breast size' slider as inadequate and opted for sculpted megaprim attachments which transcend the merely voluptuous and have been known to crash servers.
A dizzying concept, we think you will agree. And yet, it still somehow fails to capture the sheer, stocking-top thrillingness of our new Bright Dealership box.
As before, it is free, and it contains a wide selection of vendors full of Bright products for you to sell, and on which you will receive a 25% commission.
But now, the range has reached nearly 50 items, the vendors are resizable, and include a special 'single item' vendor which can be configured to sell any single product.
Think about it. Would we bother offering and improving this box if noone was buying anything through them? Bright Dealers are making real money: be one of them.
Strike a blow for allegorical transvestisism with the Bright Dealership! ('What Franchise?' magazine's 'Most Improbable Advertising Slogan of 2008'.)
(For more information about Bright Dealerships, click here.)
If you want to get from somewhere in Second Life to somewhere else in Second Life you use a landmark, you hit Control+Shift+H, or, god help us, you walk.
SL vehicles are to transport what RL whipped cream is to sex: strictly speaking unecessary, from a purely engineering standpoint even a distraction, and yet somehow rather pleasing.
So, in our view comparable only to a nipple covered in crumbled pavlova, we present the Bright Abeja and the Bright Marina: truly transports of delight.
'Abeja' is the Spanish word for 'bee', and our adorable, two-seater jet flies with the lightness and agility of its fluffy namesake: in "hover" mode floating like a helicopter or "jump jet", in "fly" mode soaring, banking, and climbing like the most aerobatic of small planes. Unlike many SL aircraft, the Abeja is effortlessly easy to control, endlessly fun to fly, and can leave a spectacular smoke trail twisting through the sky. And there are no chat commands to remember: menus control the plane, and can set it's body and wings to any of 12 colours, and add your chosen insignia to wings and tail.
The 'Marina' is a sleek, two-seater power boat, which skims effortlessly over water, or hovers in the air on four retractable downjets. Carving a wake of white foam through the water, the Marina is again simplicity itself to control, and can also be set to any of 12 colours.
So when you feel sufficiently free of dairy products, why not log in and prolong an evening's pleasure with some post-dessert joy-tripping in Second Life's squelchiest vehicles?
(For more information about our vehicles, click here. For a good pavlova recipe, try here.)
The world stands on the edge of economic collapse and social breakdown. The lack of confidence felt by our financial corporations has led them to withdraw credit from each other and from industry, creating the very crisis they fear. Unemployment, povery, and chaos face us all.
All of that is bad enough, without having to update multiple landmark givers.
We, at Bright Corporation, have the answer: the Bright Networked Giver. Load your items - landmarks, notecards, product demos, freebies - into the server, and then put clickers anywhere on the grid to let people collect them.
Our very civilisation may collapse... but thanks to BrightCorp, we can at least be sure that until the lights go out, we won't have to waste a second of our time installing the same updated item into multiple givers.
Bright Corporation: proud to be making life more convenient with clever gadgets in the face of global catastrophe.
(Click here to see our range of gadgets.)
We are positively squelchy with pride to release our Bright Chica: a cutsie based on the British Mini Moke, a Mini adapted to a jeep-style vehicle for the military which became an icon of sixties London.
The Mini Moke is perhaps most famous for being the taxi in the series The Prisoner: you can see it, and learn it's history, from those terribly clever nerds at Wikipedia.
(Click here to see our range of vehicles.)
The BrightCorp Village Shop
Round the corner waits "Rover"...The Bright Corporation has opened a minishop in a new region called The Village, which recreates the Welsh resort village Portmeirion, most famous as the setting for the cult sixties television series The Prisoner.
Portmeirion was designed by architect Clough Williams-Ellis. Italianate in style, with miniature, pastel coloured buildings, it is beautiful and intensely human. The Village was created by Catty Erde: and will delight all visitors, and especially Prisoner fans.
BrightCorp CEO Shan Bright is one of those fans, and the Bright Rapida is her tribute to the Caterham 7, which star Patrick McGoohan drove in the series. When Catty invited us to sell the car in the Village, we were proud to accept.
The series examines the role of the individual in society, and the nature of human freedom. If you haven't seen it, do. Obey us and be free.
Visit us at the . Be seeing you.
Gore: monochrome and persistentBright Corporation Investors member Zyria Aeon won $500 in our August draw.
Each month, a member of our investors group who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks" receives $500.
Swedish Zyria writes of herself "im just a girl looking for friends and fun, i like bondage, slave play and submission. dont do gore!!! so stop asking!".
Shocked by the behaviour of the plump, world-travelling environmentalist, we contacted Al Gore's office, and asked him why he was relentlessly pursuing the sultry submissive Scandanavian. He has so far failed to deny the allegation, or offer any explanation or apology.
But we ask, can it be merely a coincidence that an anagram of the failed presidential candidate's name is gaoler? *
If you would like to win $500, and have the Bright Corporation annoy a celebrity on your behalf, simply join Bright Corporation Investors, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the cash prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
(* Yes, of course it can.)
This entry in our corporate blog was brought to you by the number "8%" and the letters "alcohol by volume".
Perhaps the most demanding and esoteric art in the erotic exchange of power, having shackled your beloved to the bed and taken them to the id-satiating peaks of pain and pleasure, is remembering where you put the keys to the padlocks afterwards. Remember: SSCK. Safe, Sane, Consensual, Keyholder.
In Second Life, creating a BDSM toy which can safely chain your submissive is more complicated yet: particularly if it is designed to hang them first by their wrists, and then by their ankles, rearranging the chains between these states to keep them from falling down and yet without strangling them, which is frowned upon.
The Bright Corporation is therefore proud to announce the release of CISS: a free, generic, open source system which automatically attaches, rearranges and removes chains during play according to a few simple rules specified by the toy builder. For more information, click here.
So said Samuel Johnson, compiler of the first English dictionary, writer, wit, and all-round smartarse.
Meet the living proof that Johnson was right again. London Spengler was so taken with her Bright Strap-on that she sent in this picture of herself wearing it.
We at BrightCorp feel we have a responsibility to publish such contributions. The BBC may pique itself on the world-wide audiences it attracts for its news and cultural broadcasting, and the Washington Post glories in being the paper which once brought down a president, but when have either published an image of a beautiful naked cat-like woman wearing a strap-on?
London runs Pandora Designs and writes a blog called Pandora's Box. Her hobbies include building, scripting, drinking milk, and slapping naughty boys for doing what you're doing.
It is almost 18 months since the launch of the Bright Corporation, and six months since the launch of this website. Reading back through the articles, the story which emerges is one of a company bravely reporting how brilliant it is: stamping down our natural modesty to jiggle our boobs at you with the subtlety and moral integrity of a Second Life escort in a red latex minidress.
But enough talc and squeekiness. To mark our half-year, we've decided to give our customers a voice: and have added a page with a little of the feedback we have received from them about our products, services, and support. We'd like to thank them all, for their custom, the kindness of their words, and their sweet sweet money.
And now, let the jiggling resume...
L$500, or 720bn Zimbabwe DollarsBright Corporation Investors member Matyaazh Aeon won $500 in our July draw.
Each month, a member of our investors group who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks" receives $500.
This is worth (and we swear this is the true exchange rate from the London Financial Times) 720 billion Zimbabwe Dollars: or about enough to buy Zimbabwe itself.
Naturally the world is waiting anxiously to see whether Matyaazh will use his newly aquired multi-billionaire status to become the ruler of the troubled African state, or simply spend the money on a Happy Meal. Speculation is also growing that to escape a spiral of dizzying hyperinflation, Robert Mugabe is about to adopt the Linden Dollar as Zimbabwe's official currency, having already considered and rejected leaves, navel fluff, and the IMVU Credit.
If you would like a chance to become a Zimbabwe Dollar billionaire, simply join Bright Corporation Investors, visit our , and add us to your "Picks". Even if you don't win the cash prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
(But please note that membership is only open to residents who are not, never have been, and show no inclination to become, Robert Mugabe.)
In a spirit of selfless universal love, the Bright Corporation has decided to make itself look good, attract visitors to its shops, and advertise it's sheer nipple-hardening awesomeness by releasing a series of freebies. Come and get them.
Pointy thing on a belt which won't hang limp, function prematurely, or simply prove to be disappointingly small. Every boy should have one: but oddly, generally favoured by women.
Lockguard & Lockmeister compatible: chains appear automatically binding you to many BDSM toys which use these systems (including Bright toys: the most fun you can have with your sub without actually killing them). These cuffs will also chain you to any nearby object or avatar: so if you're feeling insecure, go out and chain yourself to something comforting.
A replica of the Bright Corporation's first office building in Second Life, now offered to other entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies but too lazy to make their own buildings like we did. Huh.
A rug. You can change the texture, you can curl up on it and doze. We'd say more but the familiarisation curve with this device is really endearingly shallow. Get in there and experiment: you'll get the hang of it.
A prim for builders. This doesn't mean some weird technoprim controlled by a HUD with more controls than a 747. This means a prim with arrows to tell you which way up it is, and which you can click and tell to line up next to another prim, or fill a space, or generally behave itself. Essentially, a subby prim. Whip optional.
A landmark which varies from those costing hundreds of Lindens in four ways: (a) it does more, (b) it does it better, (c) it looks better while doing it, and (d) it doesn't cost hundreds of Lindens. For those customers who are still torn between this and the commercial alternatives, we are prepared to damage it and charge you a L$2,000 consultancy fee: and if necessary tell you you've been a naughty boy, chain you naked and in nappies in our basement, and take your credit card on an international shopping expedition... because that's what you want, isn't it, darling?
For more information about our freebies, click here.
(Admit it: you felt a little frisson there, didn't you?)
How better to mark the 4th of July, US Independence Day, than to attach yourself, or a close friend, to a device of torture or sexual torment?
Join this young nation in celebrating Thomas Jefferson's drafting of the Declaration of Independence on a parchment stretched over the buttocks of his loving wife Martha, as she wriggled, bound naked and ball-gagged over an early, shaker-built, sex bench. History records that the good woman offered her buttocks to her country with true patriotism, but did squeal and writhe somewhat as the queue of eager signatories grew to fifty-six.
The Bright Dungeon is a collection of 15 BDSM toys, each made from only three prims: an entire dungeon in only 45 prims. The pieces are all copyable, modifiable, Lockguard compatible, and will automatically chain cuffs binding each submissive helplessly in place. If they dont have cuffs, they are provided free for all by the toys themselves. Many offer multiple poses, some simultaneously: allowing Dom/mes to enjoy their helpless pets. And any toy can be "locked" by a Dom/me, so that it will send them an IM if the submissive leaves without permission.
The BDSM Dungeon...
...as American as apple pie, and twice as squelchy.
(For more information about our adult products, click here.)
Chris864 Koba: now slightly richerBright Corporation Investors member Chris864 Koba won $500 in our June draw.
Each month, we randomly select a member of our investors group, who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks", to receive $500.
Chris's profile reveals that he is "a DJ who likes to play rock, metal, club, and rave music", so he is clearly extremely noisy and should only be approached by anyone over 30 with little prims in their ears. He also offers employment to "people who like to party and get paid": so unless you are a poverty/loneliness enthusiast, why not call him?
And if you want to stand a chance of winning $500 in our monthly draw, simply join Bright Corporation Investors, visit our , and add us to your "Picks"!
Now, I'm off to give him his cash.
Where did I put those little prims?
Some feel that the Bright Corporation is prone to making bold statements about our new products. A few raised eyebrows at the close correlation we showed between increased use of the Bright Scanner-Hugger, and reduced levels of international tension between NATO countries and the Russian Federation. They were sceptical that the Bright Amiga "sucked carbon dioxide from the air and reprocessed it into fluffy hats for kittens to wear in the snow".
Well, fuck 'em.
We are proud to announce two new products, and two upgraded products, so good if they sell in sufficient numbers they will bring lasting peace to the Middle East and eradicate all major world diseases.
So do your bit for humanity. Buy Bright.
Lets you and your guests tune into live internet radio via your web browser: so unlike most SL radios, works even on land you don't own! Perfect for tenants!
Put intercoms into your shop, your mall, your venue, then go and stand way over on the other side of the SIM, but still able to listen through and talk through your intercom via a HUD! Or add a script to any existing object to turn it into an intercom!
The enduringly popular Uniprim range - the amazing modern furniture collection in which each item is 1 prim - has just been expanded to 60 items, including 25 sculpties!
Our proven rent system has been improved yet again, now with automatic prim counting and warnings, optional autoeviction at the end of rentals, and other new features which it would simply overexcite you to tell you all at once.
STOP PRESS: Reports are coming in of gathering pressure for an international Middle East Peace Conference & Beach Party: the effect of our new products is already being felt. It has never been more important not to stop buying.
'Yo doll... what say you and I slip away from this club, to a little corner of a public sandbox I know where I've rezzed a big flat wooden prim to stand on and some pose balls...?'
If you want to get laid, get a home. Or to say the same thing without the redundancy: get a home.
Bright Corporation Rentals has been offering private, luxurious, but very low cost rentals since July 2007, when we started with 14 skyboxes. We've been expanding ever since to keep up with demand: now renting out over 150 skyboxes spread over sites on 12 sims. Today we launched a new style of skybox, the 'Bright Sky Loft', which rents for L$200/week, and have simultaneously reduced the rents on our existing and very popular 'Bright Sky Chalets' from L$150 to an amazing L$120 a week.
For more information about our rentals, click here.
Oh yes. You also might want to stop saying 'yo doll'.
What is Second Life truly about? Imagination? Creativity? Creating a new world of peace and understanding?
Of course not.
It's about getting out there and getting squelchy with people.
That's why the Bright Scanner-Hugger may be the only thing you'll ever need. It tells you who is around, lets you choose any of their names from a menu, and invites them to get squelchy with you. If they're up for squelchiness (and let's face it, you're gorgeous, who's going to say 'no'?), it brings you together and lets you hug, or kiss, or dance, or fight, or have sex, or blow, or lick feet, or do any of a number of things which will generally get you thrown out of Woolworths.
No rezzing pose balls - so you can be squelchy even in no-rez areas - and you can even add your own animations. So get a Bright Scanner-Hugger, get out there, and get squelchy: all without picking up another restraining order.
For more information about Bright Gadgets, click here.
Four foot BrightCorp CEO Shan Bright
realises she's put the product boxes
up too high to dust againBoys... you know when they told you "size isn't important"?
They were lying.
To give thrilling, sensual, borderline alarming pleasure, it needs to be beautiful, it needs to be perfectly formed, and it needs to be big: like the new Bright Corporation Megashop in Pouncival.
Did you think I was talking about your penis? My god, don't you ever think about anything else?
(For a full list of our shops in-world and online, click here.)
Bryden Gremlin from his profile:
said to be "pleased" with his winBright Corporation Investors member Bryden Gremlin won $500 in our May draw.
Each month, we randomly select a member of our investors group, who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks", to receive $500.
Bryden's describes himself as an "Absent-Minded Professor", and is working on ways in which "virtual worlds such as SL help people with disabilities". His ultimate ambition is to ensure that "people with disabilities are included in space exploration": and it is difficult to think of a nobler ambition which doesn't involve giving me chocolate.
Our apologies to investor Pearl Georgia, whose name was first out of the hat - but who hadn't added the Bright Corporation Megashop to her Picks and so missed out on the prize. Be a winner: get down to the Bright Corporation, join Bright Corporation Investors, add us to your Picks. If an absent minded professor can do it, so can you...
(Click here to join the Bright Corporation Investors group.)
Despite its frothy mix of friendly humour and verbal unusualness, you may think this entire website is ultimately just a way to make you buy our products.
But we at the Bright Corporation find that accusation cynical, cruel, and unfounded.
You see, we want to make you sell our products too.
The Bright Dealership is a collection of vendors more tightly packed with goodies than a Second Life transvestite's bra. Rez them in your shop (the vendors, not the transvestites) and earn 25% commission on every Bright product you sell. Don't have a shop? Open one! Or put the vendor outside your house, or over your 2,120 position sex-bed for partners to browse while you struggle with the Love-A-Matic menu system.
Existing dealers will be pleased to know that this upgrade provides the most often requested features: bigger vendors, for improved visibility; lower prim-counts, from a single pane vendor at 3 prims to a six pane vendor at 9; and a new vendor type which can sell a single product.
For more information about Bright Dealerships, click here.
You're still thinking about the transvestites, aren't you?
Today, Global Wonderfulness increased by an incredible 2,400,000 Choccies (or 2.4 MegaChoccies) with the release of the following products by the Bright Corporation:
The Bright Rapida is a stylish two seater sports car, inspired by the much loved Caterham 7: perhaps most famous for being the car driven by Patrick McGoohan in he cult TV series "The Prisoner".
Cooler than a penguin listening to jazz in sunglasses.
Bright Flight makes moving through Second Life fast, easy, and fun - allowing you to fly at any height, fast and furiously, slowly and precisely, through walls...
If you think we're kidding about "through walls", we're not. This is the flying gadget.
A range of 9 vendors, each one of which can take dozens of items, displaying 1, 3 or 5 at a time, giving out notecards, sending sales notification IMs...
...and each only ONE PRIM.
Use less land. Pay less rent. Sell more stuff. Get rich and have lots of sex.
Fun, colourful, and chic.
But enough about me. You'll also love this gorgeous box of movie posters: as iconic as the films they advertised.
Shan Bright fails to look at the camera
outside the new Bright Corporation
minishop== in the Other World Kingdom As the world financial crisis bites, and the "credit crunch" squeezes liquidity and growth out of the international economy, a beacon shines in the darkness: the beacon of the Bright Corporation!
During the last two weeks, our company has opened six new shops: bringing the total to 19! To those who argue that we are a "gnat's fart" in the US$65 trillion Gross World Product, we proudly reply that that is no longer true: at this rate of growth, we are now over 1.4 gnat's farts.
Our new shops can be found in: Isle of Jini Mall, Master & Slave, OWK in SL, Quality Mall, Skid Row and Vixens Isle: and the US Federal Reserve today reported an improvement in international liquidity. Coincidence? We don't think so.
(For a full list of our shops in-world and online, click here.)
Welcome... to the future! It begins in just a moment, and to celebrate it's arrival we are proud to announce the launch of the Bright Futura.
Cool and sleek, the Futura is a space-age pod for living. And what's the difference between a pod and a house? Well, a pod is like a house, but more futury.
The Futura has two huge doors that open by rotating upwards to allow you to land your star-cruiser... or, you know, go for a walk. The doors are lockable, the walls can be set to any degree of transparency (and made transparent inside but opaque from outside for privacy), and the ceiling has built in lighting which you can dim or change in colour.
Perhaps most fun, if you are on the ground, the Futura is built at the top of large pillar, lifting it up in the air and giving you views over your neighbours' inferior non-space-age homes - and making it easy to plant even on uneven terrain. But if you want to put your Futura in the sky, just click the pillar and it turns into a jet, supporting it at any altitude!
To celebrate the launch of the Futura, free copies were given to all members of the Bright Corporation Investors group. Did you miss out? Aren't you a member? Then join, so you don't miss out on the next dividend!
(Click here to see our entire range of buildings, or here to join the Bright Corporation Investors group.)
James Petrichor from his profile:
blurred with annoyance on missing out.Bright Corporation Investors member Sho Kyong won $500 in our April draw!
Each month, we randomly select a member of our investors group, who has selected our Bright Megashop as one of their profile "Picks", to receive $500.
Sho's profile describes her as a "live music lover, designer of T-Shirts and PJ's, owner of Mama Jama's in the beautiful ParrotHead Mall." So smart, creative, and now rich: sound good boys? Read on. "I'm not interested in SL Romance....put that thing away."
Sho's was actually the second name out of the hat: the first was that of James Petrichor: but James didn't show the Bright Corporation in his profile "Picks", so he doesn't get a bean. Don't be a James, be a Sho: get down to the Bright Corporation, join Bright Corporation Investors, add us to your Picks... and yes, put that thing away.
(Click here to join the Bright Corporation Investors group.)
It is so cute, Linden Labs may be forced to ban it to prevent public unrest.
This adorable two-seater convertible drives, flies, and can even be worn for use in areas which don't allow rezzing, or where traditional vehicles are too difficult to control.
The car comes with a menu system which lets you set the body, roof, and seat colours independently to any of twelve colours, and apply your favourite texture to the car number plate: somewhat dangerously making it even cuter still.
But sisters: this is no toy. The Bright Amiga is fast, agile, and a blast to drive: and there are few things in the world more fun than burning past a ramboesque avatar in his Second Life toy Ferrari with an Amiga set to bright pink and bearing the number plate "Girl Powered".
But boys: be aware that in sleek black, this car has such charisma that our first test-driver was forced to resign, giving his reason as "sexual exhaustion". The only thing more irresistable than an Amiga is the driver of an Amiga: and Bright Corporation can accept no responsibility for the waves of caressing, fondling and licking your body may be subjected to within seconds of climbing into this vehicle.
Whether you are rattling up and down the five gears on a race track, cruising nonchanantly through your favourite city-sim, or parked up at Make Out Point, the Bright Amiga is the car to be in.
Be in it.
(Click here to see our range of vehicles.)
Let's face it: some people wouldn't know a good deal if it sat on their face and wriggled.
Don't be one of them! To be entered for our new, free, monthly L$500 draw, just visit our and click on the 'join Bright Corporation Investors' sign. It will provide links to click to join the group, and to add us to your profile's 'Picks'.
And our survey says: "Eww..."Group members who have us in 'Picks' will be entered for a first draw in April, and then again every month! Winners will be announced by group notice, and receive their cash straight away, no claim necessary. And don't forget: all group members receive dividends in the form of quality Bright Freebies every month!
So go on... enjoy some warm, sweaty, face-sitting action with Bright Corporation Investors. (Did you know that this used to be Microsoft's slogan? They've now changed it to Your potential. Our passion. after polls showed 97% of customers reacted to the idea of Bill Gates sitting on their face with "Eww...", while the other 3% attacked the survey-takers.)
My new landlord: cute and doesn't
charge rent. Could only be improved
by being made of chocolate.Hello Shan. I am CEO of L&L Rentals and Sales. I am currently in the process of settin up a mall on one of our newest sims. I would like to offer you a completely FREE spot in the mall. Please hit me back, and let me know if you are interested. Thanks!
This IM arrived today. I rolled this offer over in my mind for two, maybe three seconds before presenting my tough counter-offer. "Yes".
The result? A large new rent free BrightCorp Minishop in .
My new landlord, or Squiffyboots Cuddlebuckets as I now prefer to call him, explained the generosity of this offer like this: "I am looking for GOOD vendors only. :)" Did he have anything to say for the BrightCorp website? "Lemme think. nothing special. I'm the CEO of L&L Corporation. Currently putting up malls on all our sims to promote vendors grid wide. This is the first one. I don't wanna be tooooo over the top, but i'm competely awesome."
Well... Whether this approach to building the traffic and reputation of a new mall works only time will tell, but it's bold, friendly, and deserves to succeed. But more endearing yet is the name the man behind it chose for his ruthless business persona: Luke Birdbrain. This is a level of irony which contravenes many international arms limitation treaties. If not completely, it is at least partially awesome.
(For a full list of our shops in-world and online, click here.)
In addition to our the Bright Corporation also operates a chain of small shops or minishops across the grid. We are proud to announce the opening of the latest at , or, to give it its full title, the Rising Phoenix Femdom Estate.
Don't worry boys, you can come too. But not until you're told, you filthy worms...
(For a full list of our shops in-world and online, click here.)
Second Life is, to many, a new social frontier: a place where, unemcumbered by regulation or personal ethics, we can steal from each other in a spirit of enterprise and freedom.
Ginko's Bank showed the way, attracting deposits of such magnitude that aside from a 16m2 plot valued for sale at three million Lindens, and two hundred ATMs with no payout buttons, their most valuable single asset when they collapsed must have been a mailing list of innumerate optimists, financial masochists, and small children with their parents' credit card numbers.
Oh well, she'd only have put her
winnings in Ginko's Bank...But now that the World Stock Exchange has closed for 'repairs', and Linden Labs has banned anyone from opening an investments house who doesn't already a real life license to run one (or a reasonable photocopy thereof), the question remains: where can investors rid themselves of tiresome liquidity, or, as some would put it, lose all their money?
Certainly not by joining the Bright Corporation Investors group, which has no joining fee, accepts no money, persists in treating simple membership and interest as a constructive investment in BrightCorp's future, and pays dividends in the form of free gifts. In February, this was a scripted, copyable frame, displaying paintings by Salvador Dali, M C Escher, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh. Today, investors received a textured rug, with a choice of patterns from the decorative to the erotic, on which you might right click and choose "Curl up!" to doze in front of your fire, or have your slave sleep loyally at the foot of your bed.
Not a member? Search for the Bright Corporation Investors and enrol for free. You'll find these dividend gifts under the 'Notices' tabs, and will receive new ones as they come out: and you'll also enjoy the knowledge that as one of our members, scientists estimate that you are approximately 37,000 times smarter than the average SL "investor".
"American Express? That will do nicely, sir. And would you like to rub my tits too?" So didn't run the script, but did run the clear implication, of those charming American Express ads of yesteryear. But in Second Life, your American Express card won't get you so much as a glimpse of cleavage.
For a virtual world, you need a virtual credit card: enter First Meta and their MetaCard. The MetaCard works in precisely the same way as a traditional credit card, except that it works in Linden dollars, and can be used to charge things within Second Life. If you don't have one, you can find out more, and apply, at www.firstmeta.com. It's simple to apply, quick to hear back, easy to use, and if you pay off your balance at the end of every month, you'll never pay any interest.
And you can now buy any Bright product from our Megashop in Pouncival using your MetaCard. Under each product vendor you will find a small blue Metacard box: click this, click "Yes" to confirm your purchase, and you will receive your goods, the price being charged to your MetaCard account.
Unfortunately, we regret we do not offer breast-fondling facilities to our credit card customers.
Well, not for small purchases, in any event.
The story goes that when the child's construction set Meccano was launched in the early 1900's, it was sold in two boxed editions: Meccano, the Box Standard, and Meccano, the Box Deluxe, and that it was these names which gave rise to two quaint English expressions. For something ordinary, bog standard, but for something wonderful, luxurious, and at the top of its range... the dog's bollocks.
Well... no other description will quite do. The Bright Magica is, if you will forgive us, the dog's bollocks, the baboon's bosoms, indeed - and here you should allow your mind to conjure up this huge and almost insuperably obscene image - the sum total of the erogenous zones of animals bouncing, waving and dangling across the great plains and forests of five continents as we speak.
The Bright Magica is a modern, sleek, elegantly designed home spread over three floors including a roof garden/terrace, and offering 1200m2 of floorspace: all in only 19 prims. But that's not the good bit.
Two versions are included in the box: one 20x20m, the other 16x16m and suitable for building on the very popular 16x32m 512m2 plot size. But that's not the good bit either.
The good bit is that it's gorgeous. Arrive home to a "city pad" with glass block floors and a slick nighttime New York city skyline view through your windows, and the coolest of dates will be positively moist with appreciation. But then, for a change of pace, click for a menu of interior styles, and choose instead "chilled", to lose the clutter of skyscrapers and instead enjoy the beautiful dramatic calm of an empty twilight sky, with soft white carpets and a setting to relax.
The Bright Magica is supplied with twelve interior decors, plus menus which allow you to change any individual wall, floor, ceiling or stairway. It also allows you to create new looks, with textures of your own, and add these to its menus: so that you can change your entire scheme as easily and instantly as you can switch on or off a light.
The Bright Magica: the Box Deluxe, and every inch... the dog's bollocks.
(To immerse yourself in immoral and possibly even dangerous levels of pleasure, click here to see our entire range of buildings.)
At the beginning of February, and in a fit of undeserved confidence which generally accompanies such actions and is usually only achieved through recreational drug abuse, Linden Labs rolled out their 1.19 server upgrade.
Sure enough, thousands of residents suddenly found scripts failing. Perhaps the most common result was that doors (from many different manufacturers, Bright Corporation included) would no longer open. Flooded with complaints from residents stranded in their gardens or reduced to griefing their way into their own buildings, our virtual gods finally posted this entry on the Second Life blog. It begins...
"There have always been limits on the length of the 'Name' and 'Description' fields on objects. The name field is limited to 63 characters, and the description field is limited to 127 characters. With the new 1.19.0 server, these limits are enforced when the fields are set using the llSetObjectDesc() and llSetObjectName() LSL functions."
Dolly suddenly recognises her attacker...Now, for reasons I won't bore you with, many door scripts depend on long name and description fields. So this sounds reasonable, doesn't it? If the limits were always there, but unenforced, then anyone making doors breaking those limits had only themselves to blame when the enforcers caught up with them... right?
Wrong. And yet, this statement from Linden Labs is a wonder of its kind. Perfectly constructed, every word it says is true. There were limits. They weren't enforced. They are now. And yet, while telling the truth, and nothing but the truth, Linden Labs is lying like a man caught naked with a sheep claiming he was carrying it to the vet and got hot. How do they manage this?
By not telling the whole truth.
There is only one fact they omit. The original limits were not 63 and 127 characters, they were 255 and 255 characters: as explained in their own technical documentation. In other words, they did not merely start enforcing the old limits: they also lowered them, without notice. Scripts - including ours - which scrupulously followed Linden Labs' own technical manuals were broken: including a mass of door scripts, and including those in the Bright Primera, Ultima, and Infinita.
Well, we're sorry for any inconvenience our customers experienced, and we've rebuilt the doors to make them upgrade-proof. Owners of these buildings purchased *before* February 2008 should IM Shan Bright, or email shanbright@eml.cc, for free replacements: unless their name ends in "Linden", in which case they can bloody well pay.
Kandinsky's "White figure"The marketing department here at the Bright Corporation has a proud tradition. Early in 2007, we carefully selected two dozen works by cubist Pablo Picasso, uploaded high-quality digitised prints, and carefully mounted them on copyable, modifiable, scripted frames, before boxing them for sale. But what to call this collection? After weeks of intensive work and extraordinary expense claims, our best creative minds came up with... the Box of Picasso.
The had barely regained consciousness from the three-day party which followed this triumph when they were presented with their next challenge - titling two boxes of fine art prints: 24 by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, and 24 by Dutch post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh. Their response? The witty, stark, almost savage Box of Dali, constrasted to the whimsical, poetic Box of Van Gogh.
The Bright Corporation is now proud to announce three new collections: by Dutch neo-plasticist Piet Mondrian, Russian born abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, and Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. The titles? Striking out boldly in a new direction which is bound to anger many of their loyal fans, and yet (some argue) still showing some continuity with the great product names of the past, the Bright Corporation marketing department offer you the Box of Mondrian, Box of Kandinsky, and Box of Escher.
Each contains 24 works by a master artist, copy/mod, on scripted frames with configurable borders, sizes, and even slideshows: but above all sold in a box with these playful and yet profound examples of the art of product naming printed on them in clear white type, for you - and your loved ones - to read and reread forever.
(Click here to see our range of fine art and dangerously contemporary product titling.)