Welcome to the Bright Corporation. We trade in the virtual world Second Life. Here you'll find everything you want to know about us and our services, plus a great deal more you probably don't, but we just don't seem able to avoid writing. Click here to contact us, here to visit us in-world at the , or just scroll down.
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer
It's the anti-griefing-item-rezzing-web-browsing-help-giving-object-finding-av-searching-gift-giving-cam-fixing-landmark-jumping-sound-playing-time-telling-voice-throwing-platform-making-wall-building-texture_painting-parcel-checking-lag-testing-button-happy-chat-ready-pop-up-fold-down.... Bright Toolbox! New and better than ever!
(For a description you can read aloud without passing out for lack of air, click here.)
Bosoms, a recurring metaphysical theme in the Bright Corporation blog, remain strangely popular with adults long after their milk has been abandoned as a source of sustenance in favour of fried chicken. Nutritionally inadequate for the needs of the grown human, a bigger-than-your-face breast still offers that curious mixture of comfort and excitement which you felt when being smothered with one was one of the two high-points of your day. (The other high-point also remains a recreational as well as a functional diversion for a smaller but equally passionate community, and if you didn't understand this bit, you'd probably be glad you didn't understand it if you did.)
In much the same way, though analog clocks are functionally a modern absurdity in their imprecise pointiness, we find them curiously pleasing, and spend a great deal of time persuading computers to emulate them when those same computers could tell us the time, exactly and unamiguously, using the same language we speak to each other. Hour and minute hands are already telling the time to people who have never owned or even seen a mechanical clock of the kind which used them, and usually next to a digital display which means they seldom have to learn how to read them.
The Bright Corporation remains absolutely committed to prostituting its technology (and indeed its staff) to meet these perverse, primal instincts, wherever doing so will either make us money, or promote our brand and attract new customers, thereby making us money. We are therefore proud to announce the release of the Bright Analog Clock, complete with, you know, a face, and hands, and a seconds sweep which more graphically marks the irreversible destruction time as you wander around the virtual universe, delighting in it where it brilliantly resembles the real universe, but reluctant to return to a real universe which emulates itself perfectly.
So go and get your free Bright Analog Clock today. Or, if you'd prefer a more basic nostalgia, contact Shan Bright who has bosoms larger than your face: though these are decidedly not free.
(For a less underwired description of the Bright Analog Clock, click here.)
You haven't seen me.
Resident LL Mode, whose display name is simply 77, has the following entry in his profile: Who I am is unimportant. Despite this show of modesty, I can't help wondering if our integral friend would be entirely pleased if anyone simply agreed: humility is always a tough one to pull off. But 77 can now ponder this existential crisis surrounded by $1,000 worth of Bright products, enough to buy them (say) several boxes of erotic art, Bright Abeja personal jet, a range of Bright Dungeon furniture, which should make for at least a temporary distraction from the Unbearable Irrelevance of Being.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. 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.
Sister regular Forceme Silverspar sits
by the Bondage Playground path, with
that indefinable air all true submissives
have of a rabbit in a road waiting for a
vehicle *worth* being run over by
Second Life's Bondage Playground is sadly no more. Bright Corporation CEO Shan Bright visited this little commune of constriction back in 2007, and spent happy hours exploring the craving to give up power of men and women of all nations (if only their nations emulated this commendable appetite). After opening the first Bright Megashop, one of our first satellite Minishops was opened in the Playground's mall, warmly encouraged by proudly sluttish founder New Nighbor, and we're proud to have been a part of the Playground for the last five years. Here's twisting your nipples, New: good luck in whatever you do next.
Linden Lab calls Second Lifers who pay subscriptions "Premium Residents", having presumably rejected "God's Elect" and "Aryan Übermensch" as insufficiently insulting to everyone else. Premiums have the right to "own" - and by "own" Linden Lab mean "pay us rent for" - 512 square metres of virtual land, either in LL's own Stepford homes (bringing that authentic RL tang of mundanity to SL) or out in the scary, uncontrolled, T-girl infested wilderness of mainland.
Such plots support 117 prims, and typically the new premium begins with dreams of creating a virtual paradise, only to find that having rezzed their freebie house (47 prims) with jacuzzi (36 prims), and parked a modest helicopter on the roof (32 prims), they have 2 prims left for non-essentials like, you know, chairs.
This at least was Shan Bright's experience on buying her first plot in February 2007. So she built her own, comfortable, two storey house - in the days when prims were limited to 10m a side and sculpties were just a formless blob chasing Philip Linden in his dreams - in 10 prims, and released this as the "Primera". It sold like slave silks sell to heavily bearded Gorean "kajirae", and the Bright Corporation was born.
Well, times have changed, even if the bearded kajirae haven't, and with sculpties and 64m prims now available, it was time to remodel the Primera to better serve the same purpose: providing a comfortable home which left enough prims for chairs. And so we're very proud to announce the release of our new Primera - larger (but still fitting that classic 16m x 32m 512m2 plot), with menu driven texture changing, but now only 5 prims.
And it was while creating the new Primera that we noticed this week marked the fifth anniversary of the Bright Corporation, and wondered what had gone wrong with our lives. In an attempt to celebrate this milestone of addiction, we are releasing the original Primera free. To avoid confusion with the new Primera (a Spanish word meaning 'first') we renamed the now free original the Primerisima (a Spanish word meaning "the *very* first") as a linguistic treat for all who share Shan Bright's confused binational heritage, and a pain in the arse to spell for everyone else.
And here is the packaging from the original Primera, as released in February 2007, before the sexual apartheid of Zindra, before the chatter of voice support, when the lack of sculpties meant that bodily attachments that sexy "crash test dummy" look, when every avatar had two names, and LL allowed a small weekly window of opportunity to deal with RL (or at least bathe) as Second Life was taken offline every Wednesday morning.
Ah, those were the days.
(For more information about the new Primera, click here, and about the original now released as the Primerisima, click here.)
Marcus Dillistone wondering why he is
on this page and, by the look of him,
how Princess Anne would look in leatherCongratulations to Marcus Thane, who won this month's $1000 prize draw!
Marcus has no picture or profile, so we know absolutely nothing about him. So instead we're pubishing the first picture of a Marcus which came up in Google, which turned out to be that of British Film Director Marcus Dillistone, and we'd like to congratulate him on sharing a first name with a fictional character who is now richer as measured in a non-existent currency. We're sure he'll be thrilled.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. 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.
Ich bin ein Berliner.
So announced John F Kennedy in 1963 to an embattled German city: most of whom were moved by this pledge of support during an intensely cold war, while those used to the local meaning of Berliner - a jam doughnut - were momentarily bemused to discover they were being addressed by the most powerful baked confectionary in the world.
But consider this: had he spoken in Second Life, no one further than 20m away would have heard him. Those more distant would have heard nothing but muttered reports - "What did he say he was?", "A doughnut" - unable to extrapolate his true and heroic sentiment from its context. The result? An nervous suspicion that he Americans were not only mad but unhealthily high in sugar content, demoralisation, obesity, and conquest by the east. Or something.
If your venue is more than 20m across, Second Life's chat range of 20m will prevent them all hearing you or each other. But place a few Bright Chat Relay boxes, and you can listen to your visitors wherever you are on the sim, make annoucements, DJ, and let them talk to each other.
Protect your sim against the threat of totalitarian expansionism today with the Bright Chat Relay.
(For a more historically literate explanation of this product, click here.)
Why do the likes of George Clooney and Angelina Jolie - Angelina Jolie, god help us - have millions of people salivating over the prospect of burying their faces in a cushion these stars may have left a faint bottom print in while sitting in their trailer between shooting scenes of The Men Who Stare At Goats, or Lara Croft Tomb Raider (or their intriguing joint sequel, The Goats Who Stare At Lara Croft), while you - a gorgeous, pouting avatar with a walk animation which frankly has even you licking the screen - have still to be offered a major part in any movie, with or without goats?
More to the point, how can anyone parse the question above without their head exploding?
To those who wisely didn't try too hard to separate its clauses and so retained cranial integrity, the answer is not because they are more beautiful, and clearly not that they are more 'talented' (a word desperately used to attach a sense of achievement to the accidental possession of freakishly regular features by agents and critics who know which side their bread is buttered)... but because they have achingly cool backing music.
Nothing turns routine cave exploration or humdrum gunplay of the kind we all encounter every day into something special more quickly than a quick blast of some retro 70s funk or ironic 50s kitsch.
It is for this reason that you should rush, gorgeously, poutingly, bouncily, to the collect your Bright Blues Walker, wearing which will mean that every step you take will be accompanied by a blues soundtrack so intensely cool that it has already been banned under a number of regional arms limitation treaties.
(For a marginally less and yet still fairly moistly excited description of this product, click here.)
Glad he didn't order lobster.Congratulations to Baulsem Tempura, who won this month's $1000 prize draw!
Baulsem's profile picture shows him tearing his pizza into pieces in a Second Life restaurant, and clearly wishing he could afford to eat in restaurants with enough spare prims to allow their customers to use cutlery. Well, now he can!
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. 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.