Want to congratulate our teachers for the first day of school and mayor our kids are safe we had an earthquake this morning and all the schools are green and everybody it making sure the aftershocks were working together as a city and School District thanks it our superintendant i want to graduate the patterns and families for bringing their kids to a finest public system in the country and in recognition of that we had a u. S. Conference of mayors we hosted this summer all the mares got to make sure their entire agenda were on ipads to make sure we went paper less we had a few extras we thought a good cause and purpose to make sure that kids who have special needs particularly in different schools would be the beneficiaries of that so weve made a donation of those i pads to this school and another school as the centers as again, a part of the not only philanthropy of the city but the Technology Needs the School District has never ending things change all the time we want our kids to have the best but in particular those kids that are challenged to thank you for the opportunity to my understanding with the School District on this subject for a couple are years when we have Technology Like tablets they increase that possibility of teaching kids with better or for better opportunities im asking the School District give me our list through the superintendent and there optimistic the school board whatever the Technology Needs are if i can make sure i mention that to all the Wonderful Companies in the city theyll being sure to embrace the School District with the things they need with citywide certainly with the benny Hoff Foundation as they helped me in all the other technologies helped the schools continue to prove and maintain the best performance all for our kids i want to have and make sure they are the best opportunities for the wonderful jobs but if begins here at Elementary School those in the middle school weve focused on into the high schools and everybody on the college or career packets that are sustainable and full of very positive careers our School District is here to make sure that our families are provided the best education in the world and, yes we are going to be an even better alternative in than any other school were making record investments as we have and our city and School District understands and represents each others roles after this i make sure i build housing for teachers with that announcement congratulations to the School District. Lets continue been for the kids this agency the first day of school im existing i remember my first day of school i ran around and trying to learn everything and those kids will too with that, principle. Well, thank you mayor ed lee what a great privilege to have you on our campus on the first day heather has lots of ideas well make that list to pass along. Thank you very much for being on our compass. Thank you so much i think this will be awesome for the students and well go a long way for the cameras. Thank you. We have our board president dr. Murase. I want to thank you thank you for the guest and our student we like to see were going to her classroom oh, in a minute occupies willingly have a teacher other el dorado we like to grow our own thank you prairie for this wonderful gift. Great lets have a great year of learning wed like to put those devices to good use were going to classrooms new thank you hello. Welcome to culturewire. We are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. I have been doing largescale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. I quickly found out about the San FranciscoArts Commission school and realized there was a prequalified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. How long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza . This was a fast track project. Design development was about a month. Lets look at the beautiful mural. I have never seen a mural created on asphalt. The heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. Then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was handpainted. Maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. [inaudible] the flower of industry. It is like a compass. Theres an arrow pointing north. Within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. They typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. So i thought it has a layer of theme. Lets talk about some of the other elements in the peace. We are walking along, and there is a weather vane. Theres a sweet little bird hanging on the side. What kind of bird is that . [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. You want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send . [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. What is this bird here . That is the california quail. Coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. What is this area here . This is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. There it is. There are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. What are your hopes for it . That in a way it just becomes part of the area. I think it is starting to have that feeling. People utilize it. They sit and, and have their lunch and play on they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. Just for it to be part of the neighborhood. That is my hope. Is such a beautiful addition to our public art in San Francisco. Thank you for joining us. It was nice to meet you. And thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. Thanks for watching culturewire. Much. Thank you thank you so much for your patience first of all, i know everyone is waiting partially im laura garcia the morning anchor with the bay area news from 4 30 to 7 before the todays show i betty bet most of you up ear here to talk about comcast and joined by special guests california regional