Livestream Structure
Identifying Marbles
The bread and butter of marble collecting, arguably the most difficult and time-consuming, yet rewarding and tranquil activity as a collector. My hope is that this portion of the streams provides a relaxing environment to learn more about marble identification tips and techniques.
Please understand that I am very much a novice, and hope to learn from these streams in tandem with the viewers. There will most definitely be stumbles and mistakes, which should become less frequent over time - especially with an engaging live chat to make corrections on the spot!
Marble News & Shows
Although I'm very much out of the loop, each week I will feature marble related news stories that I stumble upon - both official and unofficial. I will also do my best to highlight upcoming shows to encourage viewers are aware of the happenings in their areas.
Viewer Submissions
Without you viewers, is there really a point in me live streaming? Many of you have sent in wonderful emails with great photos and interesting stories which I'd love to share with others - of course only with your permission.
Submissions may be:
- Collection Brags and Recent Scores
- Questions
- Suggestions
- Marble related art/work
- Marble Stories
- Anything else at all that's marble related
You may submit your messages/photos on the contact page, and be sure to select the "viewer submissions" form.
Instagram Posts
It has come to my attention that many YouTube viewers are not active on the Instagram platform, and are therefore unaware of the marvelous modern mibs which fill the app. In an effort the spread the wonderful work posted on Instagram, I will save my favorite marble related posts throughout the week to re-cap with live viewer discussion.
The posts viewed each week will always be linked in the stream's description for interested collectors to dig further.
Recent Lot Sales
Although I've stopped featuring group lots in my Top 10 series, many viewers are interested in these sales' perspective value and I figured a group discussion in live chat can help lead to an objective conclusion. I'll do my best to feature the varying offerings from eBay: the good, the bad, and possibly even the ugly.
Making Marbles
At the core of the MetaMibs project are the digital marbles filling my always growing online collection. I thought it may be fun to show a bit of my process for creating digital marbles, both hand-modeled and AI-generated. Considering I have multiple AI subscriptions which typically have unused credits by the end of the month, it may be fun to collect image prompts from live chat to render some crowd-sourced collaborations!