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making the time pass quickly
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Convention at the Adriatic Sea
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making the time pass quickly
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Don't be shy to just say "hi"!
There's little dots on my map from lots of far away places, so I'm curious...who are you? How did you find me? Do you keep coming back? and what do YOU think?
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Convention at the Adriatic Sea
5 comments:
this chick is really talented... dramatic, too.
very impressive. i also like looking at your map of visitors..do you realize you have visitors from several continents? how interesting is that?! how are you..hope all is well!
Just passing through. I enjoyed the video, watched it twice, then once with the wife. My little dot shows me in Iowa. I will pass through again.
This is another one of Kseniya Simonova’s sand art presentations, this time depicting the war. I’ll include what someone else wrote:
This is an amazing Video Clip . . but first read the following....
This video shows the winner of " Ukraine ’s Got Talent" , Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about $130,000.00
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."
click on the link below -
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg
my parents just sent me this video! i hadn't seen it before. i have always been sensitive to history griefs (what various people suffered at different times in history..) so this really touched me. thanks for sharing!!
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