After Seven Years, Oakland California Gets It’s First Black Gnome
ONN – After Seven Years, Oakland California Gets It’s First Black Gnome
Seven years ago, on February 5, 2013, I made a vlog asking what why no one painted African American or black gnomes in Oakland? Someone commented that I should go and paint one.
Fast forward to April 6, 2020 and Nextdoor, where a posted put up a photo of a gnome and noted that after an absence, gnomes were suddenly popping up during the shelter-in-place. This one was reported to be on Warwick in Adams Point.
And the photo featured a black gnome. No, I didn’t make him, but thank God someone did! It means blacks in Oakland arent being pushed out as much as some of us (like me) thought.
Stay tuned.
Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: this video-blog post demonstrates the full and live operation of the latest updated version of an experimental Zennie62Media , Inc. mobile media video-blogging system network that was launched June 2018. This is a major part of Zennie62Media , Inc.’s new and innovative approach to the production of news media. What we call “The Third Wave of Media”. The uploaded video is from a vlogger with the Zennie62 on YouTube Partner Channel, then uploaded to and formatted automatically at the Oakland News Now site and Zennie62-created and owned social media pages. The overall objective is smartphone-enabled, real-time, on the scene reporting of news, interviews, observations, and happenings anywhere in the World and within seconds and not hours. Now, news is reported with a smartphone: no heavy and expensive cameras or even a laptop are necessary. The secondary objective is faster, and very inexpensive media content news production and distribution. We have found there is a disconnect between post length and time to product and revenue generated. With this, the problem is far less, though by no means solved. Zennie62Media is constantly working to improve the system network coding and seeks interested content and media technology partners.