Im your host of culturewire and today, here at electric works in San Francisco. Nice to see you today. Thanks for inviting us in and showing us your amazing facility today. My pleasure. How long has electric works been around . Electric works has been in San Francisco since the beginning of 2007. We moved here from brisbane from our old innovation. We do printmaking, gallery shows, and we have a fabulous retail store where there are lots of fun things to find. We will look at all of that as we walk around. It is incredible to me how many Different Things you do. How is it you identify that San Francisco was in need of all these Different Services . It came from stepping out of graduate school in 1972. I wrote a little thing about how this is an idea, how our world should work. It should have printmaking, archiving, a gallery. It should have a retail store. In 1972, i wanted to have art sales, pointofsale at the grocery store. So you go through the manifesto. With the bay area should have. You are making art incredibly accessible in so many different ways, so that is a good segue. Lets take a walk around the facilities. Here we are in your gallery space. Can you tell me about the current show . The current show is jeff chadsey. He is working on mylar velum a smooth beautiful drawing surface. I do not know anyone that draws as well as he does. It is perfect, following the contours and making the shape of the body. Your gallery represents artists from all over not just the bay area, an artist that work in a lot of different media. How to use some of what you look for in artists you represent . It is dependent on people are confident with their materials. That is a really important thing. There is enough stuff in the world already. You also have in his current show an artist who makes sculpture out of some really interesting types of materials. Lets go over and take a look at that. Here we are in a smaller space. Project gallery. Artists used the parameters of this space to find relationships between the work that is not out in the big gallery. I noticed a lot of artists doing really sitespecific work. This is a pile of balloons something that is so familiar like a childs balloon. In this proportion, suddenly it becomes something out of a dream. Or a nightmare. May be a nightmare. This one over here is even harder to figure out what the initial material is. This is made out of puffy paint. Often, kids use it to decorate their clothes. She has made all these lines of paint. For the pieces we are looking at, is there a core of foam or something in the middle of these pieces that she built on top of . Im not telling. Ah a secret. This silver is aluminum foil, crumbled of aluminum foil. Her aesthetic is very much that quiet, japanese spatial thing that i really admire. Their attention to the materiality of the things of the world. This is a nice juxtaposition you have going on right now. You have a more established artists alongside and emerging artists. Is that something important to you as well . Very important in this space, to have artists who really have not shown much. Now lets look at other aspects of electric works operation. Lets go to the bookstore. Ok. In all seriousness here we are in your store. This is the first space you encounter when you come in off the street. It has evolved since you open here into the most amazingly curious selection of things. This was the project for the berkeley art museum. It was this is from William Wileys retrospective, when he got up onstage to sing a song 270 people put on the cat. It is not just a bookstore. It is a store. Can you talk us through some of your favorites . These are made in china, but they are made out of cattails. These pieces of here, you have a whale head and various animals and their health over there, and they are jewelry. We do fund raisers for nonprofits, so we are doing a project for the magic theater so there are some pretty funny cartoons. They are probably not for prime time. You sort of have a kind of holistic relationship where you might do merchandise in the store that promotes their work and practice, and also, prince for them. Maybe we should go back and look at the print operation now. Lets go. Before we go into the print shop i noticed some incredible items you have talked back here. What are we standing in front of . This is William Wiley only one earth. This is a print edition. There are only eight total, and what we wanted to do was expand the idea of printmaking. This is really an art object. There we go. Besides the punball machine what do you produce in limited edition . There is the slot machine. If you win the super jackpot, you have saved the world. What about work . The right design, it was three volumes with lithographs in each volume. The cab of count dracula with 20 lithographs inside and lined with beaver fur. Really special. Lets move on to the print shop. Ok. The core of what we do is making things. This is an example. This is a print project that will be a fundraiser for the contemporary music players. We decided to put it in the portfolio so you could either frame at or have it on your bookshelf. So nonprofits can come to you, not just visual are nonprofits, but just nonprofits can come to you, and you will produce prints for them to sell and the profits, they can keep. The return on investment is usually four times to 10 times the amount of investment. This is for the bio reserve in mexico, and this is one of the artists we represent. You also make prints for the artists that you represent. Over here are some large prints by a phenomenal artist. He writes these beautiful things. Anyone who has told you paradise is a book of rules is has only appeared through the windows. This is from all over coffee. We are contract printers for all kinds of organizations all across the country. Thank you very much for showing us around today. I really appreciate you taking the time to let me get better acquainted with the operation and also to share with our culturewire team. Hi, im lawrence. We are doing a special series about staying safe. Lets look at issues of water and sewer. We are here at the San Francisco urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco and im joined today by marrielen from puc and talk about water and sewer issues. What are things we should be concerned about water. You want to be prepared for that scenario and the recommendation is to have stored 1 gallon per person per day that you are out of water. We recommend that you have at least 35 days for each person and also keep in consideration storage needs for your pets and think about the size of your pets and how much water they consume. The storage which is using tap water which you are going to encourage. Right. Of course at the puc we recommend that you store our wonderful delicious tap water. Its free. It comes out of the tap and you can store it in any plastic container, a clean plastic container for up to 6 months. So find a container, fill it with water and label it and rotate it out. I use it to water my garden. Of course everyone has plastic bottles which we are not really promoting but it is a common way to store it. Yes. Its an easy way to pick up bottles to store it. Just make sure you check the label. This one says june 2013. So convenient you have an end date on it. And there are other places where people have water stored in their houses. Sure. If you have a water heater or access to the water heater to your house, you can drink that water and you can also drink the water that the in the tank of your toilet. ; not the bowl but in your tank. In any case if you are not totally sure about the age of your water or if you are not sure about it being totally clean, you can treat your water at home. There is two ways that you can treat your water at home and one is to use basic household bleach. The recommendation is 8 drops of bleach for ever gallon of water. You add 8 drops of bleach into the water and it needs to sit for 30 minutes. The other option is to boil water. You need to boil water for 510 minutes. After an earthquake that may not be an option as gas maybe turned off and we may not have power. The other thing is that puc will provide information as quickly as possible about recommendations about whether the water is okay to drink or need to treat it. We have a number of twice get information from the puc through twitter and facebook and our website sf water. Org. People should not drink water from pools or spas. But they could use it to flush their toilets if their source are not broken. Lets look at those issues. Sanitation is another issue and something people dont usually or like to think about it but its the reality. Very likely that without water you cant flush and the sewer system can be impeded or affected during an earthquake. You need to think about sanitation. The options are simple. We recommend a set up if you are able to stay in your building or house to make sure that you have heavy duty trash bags available. You can set this up within your existing toilet bowl and once its used. You take a little bit of our bleach. We talked about it earlier from the water. You seal the bag completely. You make sure you mark the bag as human waste and set it aside and wait for instruction about how to dispose of it. Be very aware of cleanliness and make sure you have wipes so folks are able to wash up when dealing with the sanitation issue. Thank you so much,