In this clip, filmed on July 4th, 2012, Creativity Expert, Austin Hill Shaw, speaks on the challenges and opportunities of working with the feeling of not knowing during a creative project.
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 […]
Austin Hill Shaw Talks on The Five Essentials of Designing and Building Sacred Space, Part I
In this talk, filmed at the Lightning in a Bottle Festival on the morning of Saturday, May 26, 2012, I create a framework bringing sacred outlook and a profound sense of connection into the process of designing and building specifically and creativity in general. The framework comes from Vajrayana Buddhism, also known as Tantric Buddhism, […]
Slivers of Eternity: One Minute Meditations on the Ground of Creativity, #19
In this clip, taken outside the historic Fox Theater in Oakland after a Beats Antique concert, a spontaneous crowd gathers around a portable sound system playing break beats, funk, dub step, and the occasional Michael Jackson mega hit. The Occupy Oakland Movement and the eclectic and irreverent spirit of the night owls light a fire […]
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 […]
Creativity and Engineering: Last Sunday Marked the 75th Anniversary of the Opening of the Golden Gate Bridge
Last Sunday, the San Francisco Bay Area celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge. Both the Golden Gate and the Bridge that spans it have been very influential in my life. I moved to the Bay Area when I was 18 and seeing that grand opening left me with an […]
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 […]