Adobe recently asked Forrester Consulting for help in answering the following questions: Productivity and efficiency have been the traditional indicators of business health and performance. What about creativity? Does creativity also impact the bottom line? Does it lead to more business success? In other words, do companies experience a Creative Dividened? The answer: Yes! Companies that […]
[VIDEO] Creativity and Healing: Re-Establishing Wholeness through Self-Expression
Shakespeare grieved the loss of his 11-year-old son while writing Hamlet. Picasso’s most impactful painting mourned the atrocities of Guernica, the first civilian bombing in the history of the world. Pearl Jam’s Ten, an album that has sold over ten million copies, was created as the founding members, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament, mourned the loss of their […]
Creative Insight, Wisdom, and the Feminine
Here is one of my favorite articles that I had the pleasure of writing, which appeared in the October 2013 Women’s Issue of Common Ground Magazine. The article is called “Wisdom and the Feminine” and explores the links between the feminine expression of wisdom and creativity at the levels of body, mind, and spirit. It is […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #31
In this video, taken in the spring of 2012 near Codornices park in North Berkeley, California, a redwood tree trunk outside my kitchen window sways with the wind. I find it incredibly powerful to see an organism standing over a hundred feet tall, with all it has built by converting sunlight and water into sugar […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #29
Departing! I love BART, Part II. So does my daughter. While most folks are contemplating their destination, the two of us are celebrating the power and majesty of huge silver trains snaking their way about the Bay Area. The sound, too, I call the celestial conch shell. Even from far away, it echoes throughout the […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #27
In this clip, filmed at Codornices Park in Berkeley, California, the barely perceptible changes of the high cirrus clouds are captured by the relative stability of the treetops in the foreground. Creative insight often has a feeling of ascension. As such, looking up at the sky and studying its changes, is a great way to […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #26
For more on creativity visit https://austinhillshaw.com. In this clip, the second in a two part series filmed en route to Stern Grove in San Francisco, my wife drives while I get the opportunity to capture the stunning beauty of a Bay Area Sunday in June. The structure of the Bay Bridge, rails, rivets, and tertiary […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #25
In this clip, filmed en route to Stern Grove in San Francisco, my wife drives while I get the opportunity to capture the stunning beauty of a Sunday in June. The structure of the Bay Bridge, rails, rivets, and tertiary cables form a spontaneous stop animation while the main cables drop into view occationally like […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #24
In this clip, filmed on the one block-long commercial district along Euclid Avenue in North Berkeley, Christmas globes and lights, hanging in a storefront window, emit light and track the activities of the people along the sidewalks and streets. Listen for a car and watch its headlight flash across the reflective surface of the globe. […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #23
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 […]