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- Subscribe - Contact Us - Rate Card - Place an Ad Archives Revels Classifieds Real Estate Menu Guide Wedding Weather Subscribe Contact Us February 9, 2006 Blue Star carves out a niche in Ashland By Cindy Blankenship Four the Tidings Blue Star is making films now , on top of his work on flutes. Photo by Dane Roubos Blue Star, creator of over 10,000 custom made flutes, is in the midst of creating two films that share a common energy. All are inspired by, as he says, “Love. By becoming unconditional love and sharing unconditional love.” The films will include Ashland artists and spiritual leaders, and, like his flutes, are intended to “unblock the many blocks to our awakening and to help us to let go of old patterns.” Blue Star grew up in Texas where he left behind a million-dollar landscaping business when he moved to Placitas, N.M. While there, he spent much time with tribal elders from 80 to 120 years old and began his personal awakening. One month after discovering his first flute at The Gathering of All Nations Powwow, he was creating them — with no prior wood working experience. He began teaching himself by taking apart a second flute and describes the process as coming to him as “though I were remembering …” “About a year after, I started getting e-mails,” says Blue Star. “I didn’t realize what a wonderful impact my children (a term he’s always used for his flutes) would make. They are an amazing source of peace and transformation (as testified in his Web site’s guestbook), but the real gift for me is hearing the stories coming back around of how flutes have touched their lives.” He met Rita Coolidge at a Powwow, who became the catalyst for his next move — Fallbrook, a town near San Diego, Calif. Here he recorded with Coolidge on her 2000 album “Unbearable Love.” His film making art began when he left Fallbrook, performing flute at festivals and powwows throughout Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon and the Southwest. He brought this video camera to capture the beauty, which ended up encompassing not only the mountains and deserts but the “many amazing beings” he met along the way. “I saw true freedom for the first time,” he adds. “I saw that you didn’t have to have a real job to live your dreams if you’re in alignment with truth and integrity. Once I got to Ashland (about two and a half years ago when he stopped on his way to Vancouver, B.C., and felt almost instantly he was home), I knew my mission : to create films of awakening.” After investing in top-of-the-line equipment and devoting a year to learning the art of film editing, he began focusing on two productions, “Gateways” and “This is Ashland.” ARTIST SKETCH Name: Blue Star Hails From: Placitas, N.M., Southern California. Age: “I’m just a baby waking up to who I truly am.” Training: Self-taught. Niche: Creating flutes and films. Inspiration: “Love. Love. Love.” “Gateways” is a musical montage like “One Giant Leap,” only Blue Star’s film is about spiritual awakening and includes Mark Vincent (“What the Bleep”), Neale Donald Walsch and Barbara Marks Hubbard. The film will include Ashland artists Sasha Butterfly, Shim Shai, and Freedom, and anyone who feels led to perform in a musical part or a vignette. “This is Ashland” is planned as series of films sharing what Blue Star calls “good-news stories,” including everything from self-sustainable buildings to permaculture. Neale Donald Walsch will also participate in one or more of these films. His first “Good News Story” is about the upcoming rejuvenation of the Wellsprings Garden, a project for which Blue Star as a co-visionary is currently working on public announcements to soon be released. “I’m really excited about it this. We will be bringing sustainability back to the valley floor...” He plans to distribute the DVDs in Ashland first and then submit them to the Spiritual Cinema Circle and distribute through GoGratitude.com, a Web-site based movement that is growing exponentially. “We are going through a global change like never before … People are looking more for soul satisfaction in movies,” says Blue Star. About taking a year’s leave from his flute making, Blue Star says he knew the instant he walked back into his workshop that he’d “found balance again.” While creating a flute with either the native American minor pentatonic tuning or the diatonic tuning, his Goddess-style flutes having a distinct look and are made from various woods, including cedar, mahogony and walnut, and reclaimed wood as much as possible, he says. “I am really blessed with being able to create flutes that are instilled with vibrations of what I’ve learned through my whole life. And I’m open to teach, or if someone feels a calling to have a flute, it doesn’t have to be a monetary exchange.” For more information about Blue Star’s films, Blue Star Spirit flutes or the Well Springs Garden, contact him at 482-0498 or see the Web site www.BlueStarSpirit.com. 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