NFTs, NFT Teams, Art
Literary Lessons in the NFT Space: Originality is Much More than Just Thinking of a New PFP Animal
Various literary thoughts, and a look at some dog NFTs to illustrate the point.
Having been an English major in college, I’m able to pass along some perhaps unusual perspectives on the NFT space. One that just now crossed my mind could come in handy for those in the early stages of coming up with a PFP character for a generative NFT project.
I suspect that, for some early teams, the initial task of choosing a character to represent the drop can be tough. Will it be an animal, a robot, a fictitious monster, an alien, or something completely different? And it can certainly seem, at this point in the NFT space’s evolution, that everything has been done already. Cats, dogs, apes, aliens, cartoon people, 3D renders of all types, etc. So, how can anyone achieve originality when it’s all been done?
Well, for a wonderful perspective on that, we can look to English poet Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Here’s his portrait:
