I'm choosing gray for my color. I'd enjoy studying a color that is neither black nor white; an "in-between". Gray is reminiscent of smoke, mist, fuzziness and, at least for me; uncertainty. Creating a site representing smoke and the color gray gives me the opportunity to make a site that confuses and simultaneously intrigues the visitor. Creating a site that requires the user to think and use their head can create a favorable fan base.
I think there is a lot of potential in using fog, smoke and steam; maybe making a page that represents the properties of each.
There is also a duality within the color. While gray can represent aging and death, I think it is also a pretty futuristic color; the concrete and smoke of industrial progress.
Morally or ethically, gray represents an in-between. Neither black or white.
Gray is also referenced heavily in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Borrowing heavily from European folklore, Tolkien references the color "gray" several times as a thematic element. The most substantial of which would be Gandalf the Gray, who later returns as Gandalf the White. Yeah, Lord of the Rings is rad.
The grim hypothetical scenario known as ecophagy, also known in some circles as the "gray goo" scenario", is a futuristic idea that self-replicating nano-robots consume all living matter on earth, while replicating themselves.
Gray has also been a term of slang used to describe alcohol inebriation in both American and French cultures.
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