About Naming Color
Imagine yourself in a hardware store. In the back.
Look at that wall of cards with the colors on them.
All those colors have names.
What committee got together to decide on the names of those colors?
For ALL those colors!
Look, I'm sorry, but some of those names are pretty silly.
(Except "firetruck red". They weren't kidding.)
I believe... you & I can do better.
More creative names, or at least less boring ones.
More culturally diverse names, or at least ones in different languages.
More meaningful names, or at least ones with an interesting story.
So that's what this Rockopera Color project lets you do.
Collect 1 NFT color swatch for each of the over 16 million web colors.
And maybe have some fun along the way.
About Owning Color
Imagine owning a color. Let's say it's that "firetruck red".
You own it. Congrats. It's yours now.
Do you know what this means?
Neither do I.
It doesn't feel right to own something available to all of us.
It doesn't make sense to own something intangible.
It doesn't seem remotely similar to owning other things.
Yet that's why I'm drawn to this project.
By tokenizing color, I'm making something intangible, tangible.
And now we enable something new.
About Onchain Art
Imagine you're about to sign an important document.
What color is the ink of the pen in your hand?
I bet it's either blue or black.
Like I know I've been told are the only acceptable colors.
For signing checks at a bank.
But what if you could sign it in YOUR "firetruck red"?
Then all the peoples would know that that signature was definitely yours.
Because ONLY YOU have that color.
That color just became your signature color.
(Pun intended.)
Now... let's be real.
Nobody's stopping other "firetruck red" pens from being made.
Nobody's preventing your pen from being stolen.
Nobody's saying you couldn't accidentally lose your pen.
Now... let's be Web3.
Nobody could duplicate the token, depending on the contract's type.
Nobody could steal the token, depending on the contract's security.
Nobody could lose the token, depending on the owner's onchain practices.
Sure, we'd need dApps that would only accept this specific source of color.
From a set of sources of artistic building blocks.
So that's what I'm building. (Incrementally.)
And releasing along the way. (Iteratively.)
Even if it's ugly like this page. (Transparently.)
To make more onchain art work, we need more onchain art tech.
And thus this lowers the barrier for each of us.
For you.
To create and share, and now own, your rockopera.
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