On June 23, 2009, Second Life turns 6 years old. Double Happiness Jeans will be featured at SLB6 - Second Life’s 6th Birthday extravaganza. The Birthday theme this year is The Future of Virtual Worlds.
Come visit our kiosk thru June 30th and get a free t-shirt:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/SL6B%20Velocity/215/158/24
About the theme:
We are LIVE from Dallier’s Hope, 800 Light Years away we are spiraling through outer space on a Meteor disovered by Space Explorer Ghorman Dallier in 2499 while searching for new worlds to inhabit! Although we’re too far away from the sun to see it and any flora has to be kept in an AEC (Artificial Environment Chamber.) we still know how to throw a party!
The future is open to all sorts of interpretation, and to encompass the future, we looked to the past. In the beginning of Second Life, pioneering residents looked over this vast, empty landscape that was full of potential and promise. Everything was new to everyone, the concept of virtual worlds, the way we would adapt to custom content, how we would use the tools provided to us and incorporate our own vision was all still yet to be discovered. It all began with an great open space, and the inspiration provided by the seemingly simple idea “Your World, Your Imagination.”
Six years later that world is merely a memory as time has moved at warp speed with the advancements of technology and adaptability of the platform. A few hundred users quickly became over a million. It has become a staple in education and commerce on a global scale. Never could have those early residents of that vast open world predict how Second Life would evolve.
With that in mind, we took our Exhibitors far away from the green grasses and sandy beaches of their Second Life Grid and sent them into the stratosphere as the first colony of Dallier’s Hope. A vast, open landscape waiting to be developed by the first new residents of the future of Virtual Worlds. What becomes of this great “Rock” remains entirely up to them, how they adapt and harness the power of their imagination to make something from next to nothing as they share their personal visions of what they believe the future holds.
On Thursday, December 18th, a week before Christmas, the Double Happiness factory was almost overthrown by virtual anarchists claiming to be affiliated with the virtual pranksters known as Second Front. The hysterical rioters attempted to take over the factory with at least 300 lbs of explosives and bottles of hairspray. Chanting “Happiness, not Double” while the Dead Kennedy’s “Kill the Poor” blasted from their iPhones, the hooligans tried to force our happy Double Happiness workers to unionize. Only a few avatars exploded but in virtuality no one was hurt in the incident and production continued to run smoothly during the joyous, holiday season.
The attack happened during a tour of the factory with potential investors BIW (Brooklyn is Watching), an affiliate of Jack the Pelican Presents in the trendy neighborhood of Williamsburg, New York in the USA.
View live footage recorded from our surveillance cameras
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Double Happiness Jeans are on display at Olive’s in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn as part of the exhibition Windows Brooklyn. Through June 22nd. http://windowsbrooklyn.com
Live from Eyebeam in NYC and Double Happiness Manufacturing in SL, customers purchased their stylish Double Happiness Jeans at the Synthetic Times Symposium closing event on April 15.
Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, a Cultural Olympics project, opened at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing this June 2008. The exhibition launched earlier in NYC with programming co-organized by the exhibition’s curator, Zhang Ga, the MoMA, Parsons School of Design and Eyebeam. www.mediartchina.org/events/newyorkmoma
Pix courtesy of Metaverse Evangelist Annie Ok.
As we finish our first mega-successful season at Double Happiness Manufacturing in Second Life and in real life at the Sundance Film Festival, we want to take an evening to celebrate our loyal workers, our amazing builder, Nix Sands, and our talented documentarian, Xantherus Halberd. Without you guys, this project could not have happened, and we are very grateful to all of you for taking part. So Doctor, Torin, and I will be hosting a party at “The Warehouse” on Eyebeam Island in Second Life (slurl) tonight Friday, January 25th, with DJ Astrud Sands.
Check out images of the installation posted by WireImage and Sundance festival visitors:
http://www.wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?igi=301001&s=invisible%20threads&sfld=C&vwmd=e
http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=all&q=invisible+threads+sundance&m=text
And press of Invisible Threads/Double Happiness Jeans at the New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/at-sundance-a-second-life-sweatshop-is-art/
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2008/01/23/video_secondlife/index.html
http://www.chieftain.com/business/1200646971/2
http://artforum.com/diary/id=19351
Second Life at Sundance report from Draxtor Bernhard on Life4U channel on blip.tv
http://draxtor.blip.tv/#633210
Out recruiting department has put together this new edit. Enjoy!
Looking for a piece of virtual land in a good neighborhood to raise your family or start a small business, but don’t have the Lindens to make your dream a reality? Look no further!
Double Happiness is seeking Second Lifers to work in our telematic textile factory on Eyebeam Island from January 17-27 for 3-hour shifts. We offer a competitive salary of 200 Lindens per hour plus land bonuses. No experience necessary. Positions include laser cutters, dye vat operators, jaquard loom weavers, quality control and supervisors.
If interested email us immediately at:
jobs@doublehappiness.com
Double Happiness Manufacturing is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status.
