Moshi Monsters
UK-based gaming company Mindy Candy has combined the Tamagotchi virtual pet concept with Web 2.0 to create Moshi Monsters, a social networking site aimed at kids. Instead of creating profiles, users adopt monsters, which they can nurture and play with, interacting with other kids and monsters in the process. Users can earn points as they play that can be used to buy virtual items for their pets. It’s sort of like Second Life for tweens.
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The deceptively simple work of Lucy Conochie is almost Rothko-esque in terms of the mesmerizing depth that unfurls when looking at it.
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