instead of question and answer i'm going to invite trash mashup to cover me for those question-answers. all right. that was a wonderful performance. thank you very much. and also want to shout out to, as elena alluded, all of these wonderful cultural programs that we have, through funding for the grants for the arts. but the beauty of them and the why they are successful is because so many community volunteers come out and they make it work and they make it happen. and i've been through so many of these performances and there's never enough money to pay for these things. it's all organic. it's very much community, very much commitment to the diversity of this city, to the cultural roots that this city has. and this has what's been making san francisco so successful and making sure that it's my philosophy here, that's what makes san francisco successful, that's why so proud of the diverse culture in this city and so proud to be the mayor of such a fantastic san francisco and when we begin the carnavals we are kicking off tonight and as we go through the month of may and begin all the fe

they are going to play vegas style matchup -- mashup. for the commissioners, especially mr. meko, we have passed up the neighborhood of reach we have done so far. t be active in that neighborhood. the neighborhood is transitioning, as you know. it is his intention to help the transition and clean up the area. i do not know if the commission knows this, but the restaurant currently across from "the chronicle" has taken the space in the corner of the run were hotel -- renoir hotel and is moving to that location and currently doing a rehab. if you have any questions? vice chair joseph: do you have a new lease with the renoir? >> i got the least assignment. vice chair joseph: how many years are left on at least? >> 13. vice chair joseph: i was just curious to know about the stability of it all. you did not know that. it may not happen that the renoir get sold, but it might happen. that was my only question. commissioner meko: the motto or the theme painted on the front of the building, two sentences -- what does it say? >> that was done by the prior people there. we are going to

looked at the arts before the transition, we got the cuts and pastes, we got hip hop and remixing and mashup. what we got is people repurposing, deconstructing the media that they were being fed their whole lives; right? we took our tools, took it apart. cut, paste, copy; right? now we can mash up the stuff. we get some transparency, we can see into the tv, take it apart and understand, oh, that's this man's message. oh, that's thatman's message. oh, they're doing this. we reached that adolescent ad busters no logoish ambition as to what they are doing. i look at wikileaks as the most mature expression of that. this is what they are saying. i remember burrows said when he would cut up the newspaper and put it together in a random way, he would say, oh, let's find out what the paper really says. [laughter] it's that ability that's great. i don't see that where -- because talking about us going to. it's what are we going to do with it? when i think of digital media, don't think of the code on the cd-rom. i think of digits. it's digital. i think of ten fingers. it's digital commands. it's the h

the mashup of "empire state of mind," and "new york state of mind." >> because that's where we are. ♪eams baby, i'm from ♪ ♪ new york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of ♪ ♪ there's nothing you can't do now you're in new york ♪ ♪ these streets will make you feel brand-new ♪ ♪ big lights will inspire you hear it for new york ♪ ♪ new york, new york ♪ on the avenue there ain't never a curfew ♪ ♪ ladies work so hard such a melting pot ♪ ♪ on the corner selling rock preachers pray to god ♪ ♪ and the gypsy cab takes me down from ♪ ♪ harlem to the brooklyn bridge someone sleeps tonight ♪ ♪ with a hunger for more than an empty fridge ♪ ♪ i'm going to make it by any means ♪ ♪ i got a pocketful of dreams baby, i'm from ♪ ♪ new york, concrete jungle where dreams are made of ♪ ♪ there's nothing you can't do now you're in new york ♪ ♪ these streets will make you feel brand-new ♪ ♪ big lights will inspire you hear it for new york ♪ ♪ new york, new york ♪ one hand in the air for the big city ♪ ♪ street lights, big dreams all looking pretty ♪ ♪ no place in the world that can compared ♪ ♪ put yo

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> can we get another round of applause for trash mashup the 33rd annual carnival celebration kickoff here in your other home, san francisco city hall. i want to thank -- i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. our host committee, san francisco cultural arts traditions, our elected family, supervisors wiener and campos and john avalos who is on his way and mirkarimi who is soon here. wanted to say thank you for being here and bringing the community here into city hall. and we're always grateful when our mayor is here to join us tonight. thank you, mayor. i'd like to introduce the treasurer of the organization that's done so much work to make sure that all of us could be here tonight. superviser james camp, thank you for being here.