Turn your passion into a career.
That's just what Theodore Grey did when he took his collection of element samples - entertainingly displayed at PeriodicTableTable.com - and turned it into a mini-empire.
Grey's first project was, I think, Elements, the book (or maybe it was the periodic table then the book). The book is an outstanding and gorgeous tome with a two- (or for a few elements, four-) page spread on black background. There's a main photo - taken in gorgeous focus and presented brilliantly - along with element data and a one-page essay about the element along with more photos of uses of the element.
The large photos are then repurposed into a periodic table that is available in a dozen different formats, one of which I have hanging in my classroom.
Then came the app for iPads clocking in at $13.99 but worth every penny because of the gorgeous photography, especially if you spring for the extra couple of bucks to get the 3d glasses.
Now there are quilts, a second book (Molecules - which I own but admittedly haven't read), two books of experiments, a column in Popular Science.
Theo has done just fine for himself.
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