In this clip, filmed in the domestic terminal of the San Francisco Airport, an art installation floats in the space just inside the terminal, moving almost imperceptibly, while vehicles keep rolling up to the passenger drops-off just outside, delivering earth bound individuals to their portal to the sky. Footsteps, conversations, and announcements from the intercom […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #22
In this clip, filmed on a Saturday morning in a timeshare near Clear Lake, California, the morning sunlight reflects off the pool outside and onto the popcorn ceiling. The ethereal light, stimulated by the movement of unseen swimmers, and moving through an octagonal window, make an ordinary ceiling a wonder to look at. Soundtrack provided […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #21
In this clip, filmed while waiting for a bus on a balmy spring morning, a used Ford and other cars await the possibility of a new owner on a tiny lot on South San Pablo Boulevard. Behind me, a closed Chinese take-out restaurant plays violent movies in the window for a nearly deserted sidewalk while […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #20
In this clip, filmed in January 2012 at the Berkeley Rose Garden overlook, a waxing gibbous moon hangs in the sky, its mystical light shining on the waters of the San Francisco Bay. In the foreground, the lights of West Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond twinkle like stars, creating a sense of heaven on earth, or […]
Grateful for All the Heart, Mind, and Creativity that Went Into The 2012 Lightning In A Bottle Festival!
Over Memorial Day weekend, I returned to the Lightning in a Bottle Festival for the 4th time, this time as one of the presenters speaking on the 5 Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space. It felt great to contribute in my own small way to the event and to know that I was but […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #18
In this clip, taken near the South Fork of Codornices Creek in Codornices Park in the Berkeley Hills, an unnamed spring feeding the creek rolls over the landscape towards the Golden Gate 14 miles to the west. Due to the geology of the Berkeley Hills, a folded geology that captures the winter rains and leaks […]
It’s Official: Austin Hill Shaw Will Be Speaking on Creativity at the Science and Nonduality Conference in October
I am very excited to announce that this last weekend I received notice from the Science & Nonduality Conference (SAND). My talk, “Creativity and Nonduality: How The Tension Between Egoic Identity and the Absolute Self Shapes the Creative Process” will be part of this year’s line up. Here’s the official word: Thank you for your […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #17
In this clip, filmed at night at UC Berkeley, the bells of Sather Tower ring out into the night as the northern facade of Doe Library, which is celebrating its one hundred year old birthday this year, sits in the foreground. I love the UC Berkeley campus. Leaving my home as an 18 year old […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations On The Ground of Creativity, #16
In this clip, filmed at the Albany Bowling alley on Mother’s Day, my wife, Epiphany, helps our two-year-old daughter, Sierra Lucia, position and roll her bowling ball towards the unseen pins. This is her first time ever in a bowling alley and she loves it! In under a minute, two balls are rolled, the score […]
The Prolific Creativity of the Lightning in a Bottle Festival
Next week, my wife, daughter, and I will be heading down to enjoy and participate in the Lightning in a Bottle Festival, a remarkable spin off of the great mother of all festivals, Burning Man. There, I will be leading a workshop called, “Five Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space,” a workshop that I’ve […]