Videographer Joey Yee is back with his next installment on the Richmond District. This time he turns the spotlight on inner Clement Street and its various old and new worlds that sit side by side.
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Videographer Joey Yee is back with his next installment on the Richmond District. This time he turns the spotlight on inner Clement Street and its various old and new worlds that sit side by side.
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At least you don’t concern yourself with actual journalism or actual community issues affecting people, in favor of multiple puff pieces from children “discovering” the district.
So boring, uninformative and with so many important issues facing our city and our district you waste the platform peddling his youtube “business.”
Dead blog, RIP.
Well Ishmael, as Scoop Nisker used to say when he signed off from his newscasts, “If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own.”
@PaulJudge How would you quantify this as “news” by any stretch?
Let’s be real. There’s plenty of real news out there deserving of serious coverage.
(unintelligible M Dung sounds)
I rather love these little tidbits about my city. I don’t think anyone smart enough would actually quantify this as news, rather this is a blog site about things happening in our city. Be happy!
His videos are sweet. I learn a few nuggets from each one. Why bother saying anything if it’s not something nice? This is not required reading.
Love your enthusiasm for an oft neglected gem neighborhood in SF. I’ve forwarded these videos to friends who are looking forward to visiting the spots you have highlighted.
Keep up this good work!!
“I rather love these little tidbits about my city.” – And those “I heart SF” sweatshirts are SO LOCAL, right bro?
Then you’ll love youtube.com and the “businesses” there, pushing a vague narrative designed to sell ads.
“rather this is a blog site about things happening in our city”
TWO Chinese local businesses visited as if they just sprang up suddenly, Chinese local history explored at knee-scrape depth, and a 4k camera taking “sweet” shots of the “neglected” neighborhood.
Wake me when this blog has (as it once did) anything more than youtube in terms of “authentic local content” sheesh.
RIP, journalism and ACTUAL BLOGS of informative news value. Hello, youtube.everything.com
As far as the actual videography it’s certainly good enough. Nice camera, imovie utilization.
If only there were something pressing, profound or profane to cover in the district lately of any value to residents to discuss. I await your recall.
Ishmael is angry! You mad, bro!
Chuck from Hayward? Hay!
@ishmael
If this blog site is so bad, why do you keep coming back and commenting? And why are you so angry at what one person chooses to add to the website? There are other things going on such as the nighttime at the conservatory of flowers which is pretty neat, wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.
You can say you aren’t angry and this site is dumb but really, you’re angry about something in life to care this much about a blog post. Don’t take it out on Sarah or the YouTube guy, channel that energy into your own blog! I’m sure we’d all love to read it!
Cheers!
“If this blog site is so bad”
“Bad” – not found. “Dumb” – not found. “Anger” – not found. Re-read the critique or don’t but you’re adding these things to it. If anything it was a broad appeal to hearken back to what this blog used to be good for, rather than just a youtube kickstart platform for influencer children trying to brand wandering around kid-splaining the world without any actual depth. And of course high-res shots of the gorgeous ocean views are gorgeous. And also of course, Instagram and youtube are chock full of that.
“There are other things going on such as the nighttime at the conservatory of flowers which is pretty neat, wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.”
Unless maybe you might have read one of the two major local papers in the last 5 years, sure. They’ve both featured it several times over the years prominently. I’m glad the blog re-mentioning it triggered your memory, that’s useful.
If you see what I wrote as an attack on Sarah that’s unfortunate. It’s a call to wake up and get back to the actual duty of this blog. 2 out of the last 3 “articles” are these wandering youtube influencer-bro videos. I’m almost surprised Yee isn’t wandering around the Safeway or Wells Fargo Starbucks, marveling at the “local authenticity” in his “I heart SF” shwag hat.
This isn’t youtube, where that belongs and already exists in spades. If this is an attempt to finally monetize the blog via youtube hits, I guess that’s just the sad way of things as more of our local institutions get watered down to influencer meaninglessness and click-seeking. At least the Richmond Review makes it clear which are the advertisements and which are the actual local news items.
Now if you don’t mind I also have to get back to work. Hopefully my critique / rant of mine didn’t make anyone upset, but if it did they ought to consider why that is with my blessing. Enjoy the rain, put your phones down instagram zombies. Young aspiring journalists, stay in school. Find a story of the thousands and millions out there, it’s a huge district in a major, tiny, crazy city. There are important things going on right now. Talk about THEM instead of re-discovering the local Ace hardware or massage parlor, whatever. Rant over, you are free to go about your business, influencers. Like, dislike, don’t care.
Charming portrait of the beloved neighborhood I grew up in, near Clement & 5th. It was heavily Asian then as well. My family is middle-eastern, but I learned to use chopsticks at age 5 in the Richmond. Kept an eye out for the old family house, but alas it did not make an appearance in this otherwise lovely video sketch.
Ishmael: The fact that you don’t like this type of post yet you read it and have commented multiple times says so much more about you than it does about any one else. Try introspection, my dude, probably be a nice trip for you.
” The fact that you don’t like this type of post yet you read it and have commented multiple times says so much more about you”
Replying to a discussion says “a lot” about someone. So what does it say about you now then Sam? Hop off the scooter and join the discussion? Or just passing through?
“My goodness, I’ve lived in the neighborhood for ages and never noticed there were several large asian supermarkets and a healthy distribution of Chinese and other asian people buying and selling food-related items. Gadfly!”
Can we just copy and paste the format for the Sunset district? You know, wander around, mention a few things everyone can see and knows about who has ever been there even once, go into a few businesses and eat avocado toast or some trendy ramen or something?
Be sure to like and subscribe and post youtube likes to your profiles, then poke and instagram all your bro-dudes and lady-homies, my dudes.
Next week : We discover boba tea and ice cream, also, what’s UP with the big red bridge out there in the cold water, my dudes?
If characters like you, Ishmael, consider this blog dead, fine by me. Happy to NOT have you be a part of this community. You’re a bully, plain and simple. And your behavior is completely unjustified.
It is easier to run away from criticism than to face it and deconstruct it for whatever value that has. Calling someone a bully is bullying also, certainly if that’s all you have to say and you don’t even attempt to make your case. If there’s nothing said above that is at all true, feel free to disregard it as you see fit. That’s what the “like” button is for, that you’re adding here without realizing – or perhaps willingly, which is much more depressing for the future of this once and potentially valuable (beyond “likes” and pokes and advertising royalties) neighborhood resource.
Well done again, Joey! Really looking forward to your next video. Some posters apparently thought you should have made their video (the one they didn’t have the wherewithal to make themselves). Glad you made your vision. To everyone reading this, please recognize that people incite cuz they have a pathetic need for attention. Don’t honor their sorry behinds by naming them or specifically responding to them. Ignore them and at some point they’ll go away. Or grow up—we can live in hope. Keep it coming, Joey.
Charming video, enjoyed watching it. Thanks.