Hello everyone,
I am looking for a way to monetize this strange idea. I had written it off as a passion, and not a business because it brings me joy but I could not think of a way to actually earn money from doing it.
It's probably something that is just a hobby, but at the same time it has the potential to really affect people and I think it would be a big mistake to not ask your opinion on it.
What I do is create nature scenes. If I want something that doesn't exist in real life, then I'll create it just how I imagine. I am particularly fascinated with bioluminescence, like in the movie "Avatar".
I don't have many pictures of the things I've made, but just to give you an idea, here is an example of a project that I did earlier this year that was inspired by bioluminescence.
My most recent project involved hunting for a rare moss species with only 200 estimated occurrences worldwide. It's special because it glows a brilliant green color and is the only one of it's kind. After 2 months of searching through rainforested areas I located it and it's now growing in my garden.
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I started doing this specifically because I wanted to make jaws drop. One time a childhood friend came to visit and I had set up a lot of "bioluminescent" plants in the forest around my home... we didn't tell him that it wasn't real. He started tearing up and called his dad to describe what he was looking at.
So my question to you is... can you see any way of turning this project into a fastlane business?
My only restriction is this: I would refuse to ruin the magic for people, so that rules out doing anything that shatters an illusion. For example, I had some people approach me and ask to buy the mushrooms in the above video, but I declined because it would be like a magician showing the crowd how the trick works- not so much fun any more.
I thought of buying up forest land and creating an attraction for the public which would be kind of like visiting a far away world... but that is something that would require way more capital than I have.
I think that I would simply become the starving artist if I attempted to earn a living from this, but I just thought I'd throw it out there in case some better minds can see a potential fast lane path related to this.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this
I am looking for a way to monetize this strange idea. I had written it off as a passion, and not a business because it brings me joy but I could not think of a way to actually earn money from doing it.
It's probably something that is just a hobby, but at the same time it has the potential to really affect people and I think it would be a big mistake to not ask your opinion on it.
What I do is create nature scenes. If I want something that doesn't exist in real life, then I'll create it just how I imagine. I am particularly fascinated with bioluminescence, like in the movie "Avatar".
I don't have many pictures of the things I've made, but just to give you an idea, here is an example of a project that I did earlier this year that was inspired by bioluminescence.
My most recent project involved hunting for a rare moss species with only 200 estimated occurrences worldwide. It's special because it glows a brilliant green color and is the only one of it's kind. After 2 months of searching through rainforested areas I located it and it's now growing in my garden.
2017-09-01.png
I started doing this specifically because I wanted to make jaws drop. One time a childhood friend came to visit and I had set up a lot of "bioluminescent" plants in the forest around my home... we didn't tell him that it wasn't real. He started tearing up and called his dad to describe what he was looking at.
So my question to you is... can you see any way of turning this project into a fastlane business?
My only restriction is this: I would refuse to ruin the magic for people, so that rules out doing anything that shatters an illusion. For example, I had some people approach me and ask to buy the mushrooms in the above video, but I declined because it would be like a magician showing the crowd how the trick works- not so much fun any more.
I thought of buying up forest land and creating an attraction for the public which would be kind of like visiting a far away world... but that is something that would require way more capital than I have.
I think that I would simply become the starving artist if I attempted to earn a living from this, but I just thought I'd throw it out there in case some better minds can see a potential fast lane path related to this.
Thank you very much for taking the time to read this
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