Greeting From Metaverse,Emotions Transmitting On Chain.
In the past, people used letters to send messages, express thoughts and wishes. A letter is filled with emotion and expectation. Reading a letter is like talking and meeting the writer. Letters also tend to be treasured and frequently read by the recipient. Later, with the advent of Email, internet and mobile phones, information transmission has become more and more convenient. Traditional letters have gradually faded out of people's view, and the emotional meaning carried by letters has also gradually faded away. Now, based on blockchain technology, there are new carriers and forms for the transmission of information and emotion. On the blockchain network, emotions, thoughts and blessings can be mint to the form of NFT data that can be treasured forever and retained in the digital world forever. The transmission of information, the expression of emotion, in the blockchain world, has a new meaning.
The idea for a series of NFTS called "MetaGreeting·NFT" came about. It's a series, but it's also a fun little app. I selected some favorite words and poems, and wrote more than 2000 cards with a brush, the content of love, blessing, inspiration, life and so on. Each card is not only a greeting card, but also a small calligraphy work. The written cards are post-processed and output as animations. I stored these animations and original cards on the Arweave decentralized network and mint NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Each NFT is unique and can be given away or collected. Unlike regular NFTs, these cards will allow for a message to be sent along with them, which will be permanently stored on the blockchain along with the card, and a wishing tree feature will be developed in the future to allow NFT cards to be hung on the wishing tree.
Minting
Total price: 0 ETH
(excluding gas fees)
ROADMAP
This is a set of pure greeting cards nft without so much as a roadmap to follow. Mint one for a friend if you like.
ABOUT NFT
Rules
The "MetaGreeting·NFT" smart contract uses the ERC721 specification, and each NFT contains an animation of the card, a card original, and some predefined attributes. Later will open the gift function, can be in the gift with a message(The webpage has not been created yet, please access and operate from the ethereum block explorer). All nfts will be minted for free, and the total amount of casting will be about 2,300, each of which is different. The minting function does not set whitelist limit. It will be opened when the debugging of the function is completed, an announcement will be made on Twitter before the opening. After officially opening Mint, the contract code will be opensource. NFT metadata is stored on Arweave's decentralized network, and the metadata BaseURI Settings feature is turned off after Mint is complete, ensuring that NFT metadata is immutable and not lost.
About physical originals
During the production of NFTs, more than 2,000 physical works were written, and I will keep all the original cards for the time being. Maybe I will keep them for myself or participate in some offline exhibitions, maybe I will send them to all the holders of "MetaGreeting·NFT", or maybe they will exist in some special form.
HIGHLIGHTS
It took more than half a year to make the "MetaGreeting·NFT" series of works, including card writing, seal, shooting, writing the post-animation effect code, writing the NFT contract and building the website. For the time being, I am the main and only member of the team. From time to time, I switch between artist, copywriter, and programmer. To complete this project alone, it is very hard and the cycle is relatively long, and there will be many imperfections. I hope there will be new partners to join us in the future to complete the follow-up plan of "MetaGreeting·NFT".
- Text content: I have collected many interesting phrases and sentences, including the Book of Songs, Tang poetry, Song Poems, modern poetry, movie lines and Internet expressions. However, due to the limitation of time, only some of them can be selected for writing and creation.
- Card Writing and Seal: I collected a large selection of fine cards and letterheads, cut and trimmed for writing. The writing of each card is a small creative process. Some of the cards contain the same text and are written in different styles. I used regular script, seal script, official script and cursive script to write cards. Each card was also paired with a number of stamps. Although the card is small, it is a complete piece of work.
- Post processing and output: I used Python OpencV library to write a little code to identify, crop, and correct photos taken. Processing is used to produce animation effects and output them. I used 618x1000 resolution for the animation size, 0.618, 1.618, the magic golden section. I read a lot of reference books, wrote a lot of code, this stage is a boring but very magical stage.
- Contract and website development: It is another process of learning and coding. NFTs is released on Ethereum network. I choose ERC721 as the version specification of NFT, because it is universal and supported by many NFT trading platforms. I am not too good at the front-end development of the website, so the website can only be simple and convenient, want to be cool is a little difficult. Hopefully, the next phase will be supported by stronger front-end development partners.
Creator
In Real World
Fred Yang, calligraphy artist, digital art creator and crypto artist. Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts Education. Worked in Internet technology in early years, and then went to art college for further study. Now I focus on digital art and crypto art.
In Metaverse
MrBWG, Mr. Black White Gray, I created this identity when I launched my first NFT works on Singular. App in 2021. My primary task and behavior is to create NFT works or related projects. My attributes have not been defined yet, and I will gradually improve the attributes of this identity in the future. The types of work produced include calligraphy, digital art, generative art or others.
CONTACT AND COOPERTION
For the time being, I only started Twitter as a social media messaging and communication channel @raven201909. Discord and Telegram related channels or groups have not been opened yet. If they are opened in the future, they will be announced here and on Twitter. You can also contact me by email at raven201909@gmail.com. If you have any suggestions for the project or are interested in working together, you can also communicate with me via Twitter or Email.
I also welcome your attention to my two NFT series published on Singular.App (NFT platform based on Kusama network). "Thousand-Character Calligraphy" and "Chi.Mei.Wang.Liang".