How I make a living from death

This was an extremely interesting  lecture. I found the story of the skull illusion fascinating (www.theskullillusion.com) . Violet Fenn, the speaker and founder of skull illusion studied silversmith at North Wales School of Art and graduated in Design Craft. Her website shows post mortem photographs from the Victorian era. Her company is making jewellery that compliments this. It is vintage and Victorian. This was not her first project and she has had a few of her own companies, all of which have been quite small. Her advice to us was on how to manage our own businesses. She told us that too get anywhere within a creative industry, web presence is of upmost importance. She was speaking from real experience and I really valued what she had to say. She says that the web gives us the most chance to be seen in this online era. Since this talk I have set up my own blogs, websites, flickr and various other social network accounts. Income, she said, is not always in the form of finance, but can often be publicity. She reminds us to stay curious, never turn down work and fit as much as we can in without jeopardising other commitments.