last friday we took part in an art festival in newBERLIN (secondlife). it´s kind of a while we are running up and about SL...since summer 2006 i guess...we created our container land and all but we actually never really dedicated ourself to it completely...dont believe the hype was our motto, whilst everyone jumped on the bandwagon trying to get their virtual place in SL...







during last summer though, we had a nice opportunity to get involved in a project with the agency YOUseeMEin3d who run the newBERLIN sim, which is a 1:1 3D version of our beloved city.














we managed to create a link in real time between a mindestlohn.aktion in real berlin and newBERLIN. and it all worked out pretty well.





































we also curated the first art exhibition in the alexanderplatz train station in newBERLIN for a while,
and our PLATOON containers are standing on their sim ever since.





























thats why we were glad to be invited to take part to their event last friday. the art festival was broadcasted live via SL to the Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) in Copenhagen and was running in parallel with the virtualmoves exhibition, organised by taggingart.org.



















i popped in for a visit and left behind some berlin streetart.














i also invited CHINCHIN, our favourite street-artist, to place one of her works herself!















however, the big SL hype is fading down...but maybe now is time to actually do something constructive with this innovative medium.


the most interesting project so far was supporting with some strategical advise the now legendary IBM strike in SL, organised by uniglobalunion and rappresentanza sindacale IBM (IBM´s Italian union) led by christine revkin and davide barillari.

with their fantastic idea and driving personality they managed to involve many people dislocated worldwide...us included...and with the cheer help of these many motivated individuals, they even managed to win an award at the french senat for their protest in secondlife... for being one of the most exemplary and innovative web-related projects worldwide. congratulations!













these days we are in fact working again with them and TUV representing ver.di with the minimum wage exhibition on the brand new UNION ISLAND, a project that wants to bring together several trade unions worldwide, soon we will also present other campaigns we created for ver.di: genuggespart and streik.tv.(check also congress.tv a similar project by TUV).









we´ll keep you updated from the front about the development of these projects.