Dear Friends of Bloomshine,
Thank you to everyone for your support, encouragement, and enthusiasm for the Bloomshine Foundation. There has been a tremendous response to our outreach, and for this, we are grateful. The Space Cadet Shipwreck vinyl records are currently being pressed in the Czech Republic. As the pressing plant requires a minimum number of vinyl records per run, we can continue to take orders for any of you late birds! If all goes according to plan, we hope to have the records packaged and shipped for you to receive by late December.
With this edition of the Bloomshine newsletter, we would like to share a moving video tribute created by Bailey "Barney" Barnard, a lifelong friend of Evan (and his third cousin), who describes the creation of this video:
"On November 18, 2009, Evan played a solo acoustic show in the lobby lounge of the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood. Like many of Evan’s shows in those years, it was sparsely attended except by a close group of his friends and a few peripheral relations. I had gotten in the habit of filming many of Evan’s shows with handheld HD cameras. (This was a time before HD cameras were a ubiquitous feature in every cell phone.) To improve the video quality, I adjusted the exposure and other levels so you can see Evan’s pixelated form, which seems to float before the lobby’s desert wallpaper backdrop, at times seeming to envelop Evan in shapes and shadows. I also added slow zoom-ins to create movement and depth, while shifting the color from a sepia tone to black and white, and adding some film-scratch filters, evoking a sense of memory and the past. I also added some other footage of Evan I had gathered from 2009 to 2011, slowly dissolving between those clips and his performance at the Standard..." READ MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO TRIBUTE.
The holidays are a time we think of those we have lost and remember they are always with us. When thinking of Evan, the way he lived his life as an artist, his curiosity, his joy, and his suffering with cancer, a lyric comes to mind:
"But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you." —Vincent by Don McLean
Countless thanks for your support of the Bloomshine Foundation to help us honor the music and memory of Ansel Evan Clayburn.
Much love & happy holidays,
The Clayburn Family
