Tsuba collection – Rolling Brooks Gallery

[Steves87]

I have been collecting all sorts of things for most of my life and for a while, I have been throwing loose bids at local auction houses here in West Aus. Sometimes I might win a specific item, and not realising at the time, the auction lot is much larger and contains many other things. I often re-sell some of these items, but occasionally there are some I keep for myself.

 

Somewhat recently, I returned to university study for a career change. As the study was curation based, I became very familiar with contemporary collections (especially the digital side of collection institutions) and as part of my personal professional development, I decided to make use of my new knowledge. Initially I created a personal Instagram account for fun, which I eventually converted to a professional account to test the algorithms for certain uni subjects. After completing my degree, I decided to make use of the website building subjects that I took, to form a gallery of my collections which runs alongside the Instagram account.

 

Backstory done, this is the link to the beta website I am in the middle of creating for my ongoing professional development https://rollingbrook...rollingbrooksgallery .

My main reason for posting this today, is to study some of the analytical data I will get from the visits, as such, you may also see this pop up on facebook at a later point, too.

 

Go easy on me, I am not always one to share my babies and it is still a work in progress (with mobile optimisation ongoing but should be ok). I need to basically re-photograph everything again (for consistency), and I also need to write up a lot of the info for a lot of objects, but the Tsuba related stuff is the most complete of the lot.

[Brian]

Good looking website! I like it a lot, and it's well presented. Some good info too, I'm going to add it to the links section here.
Looking forward to browsing more, thanks for your efforts.

[Jesta]

Looks like a good way to showcase your collection. Funnily enough, I was starting to think of doing something similar… Thank you for the inspiration.

[Steves87]

Thank you Brian! The Tsuba section is growing too, i have a few more still to put in.

 

Thanks Jesta, too. I highly recommend you give it a go, it is actually quite fun and depending on your work or hobbies, is a good professional development exercise that has an "ongoing" potential.

 

[BIG]

Congrats Stephen, 

good decision for the community and for you !!

 

Analytical data may be on our board so..?

 

Best Peter

[Steves87]

Thank you Peter!

The analytics do tell me if the visits originated from the forum, but I am quite interested in seeing the statistics between mobile device and desktop visits. As well as this data, I am interested in which countries the views originate from, I get the analytics from instagram too, and it appears most of my views are from Iranian cities, which i would have never thought. The US visits mostly originate from New York specifically. I am interested to see this in comparison with the website analytics. Of course, I do wonder how much of this is thrown off by vpn's.