>> when stephen de staebler died, he was working on one of the biggest shows of his career, matter and spirit. it is a retrospective look at the many faces and faces of the life of an innovative artist from the california clay movement. stephen de staebler's developed in an area dominated by abstract expression. even his peers saw his form. >> he was able to find a middle ground in which he balanced the ideas of human figuration and

representation with abstraction and found it even more meaningful to negotiate that duality. >> another challenge was to create art from a meeting that was typically viewed as kraft material. his transforming moment was an accident in the studio. an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. he sought a new tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth.

>> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these are the heart of my studio. these little, and held intimate study is that he referred to as his sketchbook. a painter might make drawings. stephen de staebler made miniature sculptures. >> during the 1970's, he was inspired by the monuments of

egypt. he assembled a large rocks of clay into figures that resembled the ancient kings and queens. he credited a weathered appearance by rubbing glazes' into the clay while still wet. the misfires from his killed were brought in his backyard in his berkeley home. he called it his boneyard. in the last year of his life, he dug up the artifacts from his own history, and the bones were rearranged, in the were slimmer figures with wings. >> even if you knew nothing about his life or career, you sensed there was an artist dealing with this fundamental issue of life and death, the cake, netting back together, and you feel there is an attempt to deal with mortality and immortality. there is a seeking of spiritual meaning in an existential stage. >> during his 50-year career, stephen de staebler worked to form and out of the clay of the

ground and give it a breath of life. matter and spirit gathers the many expressions of his meditations. and gives the viewer and insight into the artist's life. learn more about the retrospective on line at >> hello. good morning. you can do that after the party tonight. let's try that again. good morning! here we go. welcome back. it is our 16th year in san francisco. we are thrilled to be back. those are not the slightest -- slides. there we go. i wanted to start with one

colorful slide released last week. what happens in an internet minute? it shows the incredible velocity of change we have in our industry and society. the internet is the biggest thing to happen to the species in generations. it is much bigger than television will ever be. look at what happens in one minute. amazon will be joining us on stage. they sold $83,000 worth of merchandise in one minute. how many people are checking into facebook? 6 million. nothing is changing the world as fast as the internet. you have made the right choice in terms of where you are today, in terms of your career. it is staggering. it is deserving -- dizzying. we are here to help you understand what is going on. there is a conversation happening on tour.

please join it. you will be astonished at how many people are contributing to the conversation that is this event. we have a free mobile app. please download it on multiple platforms. we had a staggering seven concurrent tracks in the conference today. let's resume in a little bit. we have tracks on mobile, brand, video, display, rli and the two tracks. it is extraordinarily exciting. it is deep, and your head will be exploding with information by the end of the day. a special thank you to our marketing masters for today. these are industry thought leaders who have worked with us to carry two-hour tracks, plus presentations in the exhibit hall. we have our marketing master in mobile, affiliate's, a media strategy, and e-mail, and these people have dedicated an

extraordinary amount of their time to this, and we thank them for that. this is our advisory board. it takes a village. it is like an amish barn raising to get these events together, and we lean on these people everyday, and we could not possibly do this without our sponsors. they make this happen, guys. thank you so much. [applause] the exhibit hall is going to open at 10:00 a.m. we have two floors. you have to visit both. the joint will be jumping, and it will be all sorts of fun. i want to talk in particular about innovation valley, which we launched two years ago in san francisco. a bunch of start-ups, really something. some of them just out of the garage. some of them have a little more time under their belts, but they are all new and exciting. please visit the innovation valley on the exhibit hall to the conference. we also have a startup spotlight. we chose 16 different companies

that will present. our sections in the conference are mobile and video today. a special thank you to our advisory board and judges to the conversation that will be happening over the next couple of days. by the way, we do this all over the world. i was very pleased to see a delegation of our friends from tokyo this morning. they are right up in front. could you guys stand up and wait? they made the longest plane flight to get here. [applause] all right. this afternoon at 1:15, we are really lucky to have our keynote presenter. you have all seen the slide, right? we call it the slide. it is the prodigious mapping of exactly how complicated things can be in this industry. he is doing more than anyone else to render order from the chaos. right after that this afternoon, we have a fireside chats about

social media and advertising -- fireside chat about social media and advertising. later today, the author of "and outsmarting google" is going to have a book signing. later, another report exclusively to adtech -- "the digital revolution: a look to the marketers lens." we have a couple of exciting networking events tonight. this afternoon and tonight, we have our networking pub crawl. all attendees are welcome from 4530 to 6:00. get your mug and trouble to the different floors of the expo. tonight, starting at 6:00, the totally awesome 1980's party

featuring tainted love. later, over the course of these high-speed remarks, i talk about technology, talked about innovation, the industry. there is one man who embodies the commitment to those three things in san francisco, the man we are about to bring to the stage. we are very lucky to have the mayor of san francisco, the honorable edwin lee. big welcome. mr. mayor, please join us. mayor lee: good morning, everyone. welcome to san francisco. thank you for being here. wonderful place to be. as i just was listening to brad, you have an awful lot on your agenda today, but it is exciting to be here. exciting to be the mayor of san francisco when we are on the

verge of working so well with our technology companies. it is very appropriate for you to be here in san francisco, evil and digital media and blending that with marketing and advertising. i think you have the the right place to be here, and i hope to be here for another 16 years. for this conference to be here and for me joining, whether i am the mayor or not, i think it is exciting to be part of this effort. i have been the mayor for a very short time, but i learned very quickly how important and how valuable the technology world is to how we do business in our city. not just because i announced it during my campaign and put out the 17-point plan and economic growth plan for our city that involved an but right there the technology and innovation world for our city to see. you are creating jobs out there, making people connected

every single day, probably every hour, more than any other industry i have seen, so it has to be part of the way we run our city. i cannot think of a better way for innovation and technology to be rewarded them by challenging each other as to how we can improve our city. before i end this morning on the stage, we're going to launch this new platform, this innovative connectivity, this online ability called improved asset -- sf. before i do that, a little history -- this year, we are celebrating the centennial of our san francisco municipal transportation agency, munich -- muni as many of you might say who live here. it started out with streetcars and cable cars, and now, it is one of the most complex transit agencies in the country.

we are building another subway, connecting with our bay area rapid transit. hopefully in the near future, it will be connected with high- speed rail so that some of you might not have to take the airlines between l.a. and here. you will get on high-speed rail and be there in a couple of hours. but while we are doing that, the next hundred years of muni needs to engage our public as to how to improve. as one of our 60 apartments, they have asked us to use launch sf -- or improve sf to help them. how can they get better? how can they be on time? how can they be a better agency in the city? they are one of the most talked- about topic. as i go around every tuesday, i am asked by the employees, "can i help with improving unique? can we get on time?

can we make it more accessible. kelli utilize new routes and intelligence in the data we produce? we are putting that on the improved sf platform this before i do that, i want to thank this collaboration of local businesses that have helped us design this, designed the process for it. we have burgeon airlines -- virgin airlines as part of the prize-giving technology. when you ask people to help improve government, you have to have a reward. maybe not as much, but at least as promising. , and then i have another company, sf bay, the bay area innovation group that has helped us -- sf big. you will hear from a small, local filmmaker, he will remind us where we come from as a city.

then, we have another local company, a local person who helped us design the logo. and another company -- bold italics, who will help us look at the whole process and invite, hopefully, winners, and identify them for us. this platform will allow for the first time an online engagement of the public to help us with challenges in our city. not about just working with our technology companies. i want to involve our innovative mud -- minds as to how we can improve delivery of service. if you can locate in san francisco, you can get all the talent for your companies. we may as well use it for the broadest burke as possible, which is helping our city become a better city, a city that knows how to do everything better by using technology and encouraging

the brightest minds in innovation to help us. i will be there. i will be watching all the ideas that come forth. we will ask you as part of the audience to help us with the challenge, and then we are going to ask you to give us even more ideas that you might have as to how to improve our system. muni is on the front line today. we launch it today. then, we invite the audience of the whole bay area to submit their support for the best ideas possible as to how we improved our city. with that, thank you, and congratulations for your 16th year in san francisco. let's roll the video. [applause] ♪

>> well, all right. isn't that exciting? let's give the mayor another round of applause. thank you very much. >> being a pedestrian in san francisco is not easy for anybody. >> [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. >> i have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. it is very hard.

>> sometimes people get half way across the intersection. >> you have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. >> i learned to listen to the traffic patterns. sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided i'm going to cross, too. i get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. >> we need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. the world needs to be open.

>> people on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. when we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. for people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. it can be hit or miss. >> at hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic -- it helps people cross the street safely. >> now we have a successful pedestrian signal. >> i push the button, i get an

audible message letting me know that i need to wait. when it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. so it tells me it is safe. there is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. i am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. >> it brings san francisco from

one of the major cities in the u.s. to what is going to be the lead city in the country. >> city working on all sorts of things. we are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. >> disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. with regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12-inch wide border. for people with low vision to

get the same information. the shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. >> we have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. detectable ramps. they are all detectable. nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. smooth clean that nobody is

going get caught up on. >> our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. here is another problem we have with street trees. if i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. >> we don't want to create hazards. >> sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. >> sometimes it can be impassable. so much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or

walker to go by. >> san francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. they have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. if people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. >> we don't want anything special. we want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. people can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have

48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. we will all get along better. >> although san francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. that doesn't mean we can't continue to improve upon ourselves. >> the public has a clear are -- of travel. we can't be every to make sure that is the place. we have to rely on the place. call 311. give them your name. that goes into a data base. >> it is difficult, still, um to make the case that the

disabled community isn't being represented. in some ways we are not. we have a long way to go. >> the city of san francisco is using the most innovative technology available. these devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. it is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely.