Some talent this girls got

[Greedo]

Oh and she's fit. Would love to know the story she's telling though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg#t=00

 

[solmisation]

It reminds me of the Twinings tea advert. Very impressive!

 

[Aperitif]

That's really interesting!
Didn't see many of the luxury yachts etc but there were a lot of tears.
Nice hands and a healthy imagination. (A pain in the butt when you're lying on the beach 'together' though.)
Thank you Greedo.

 

[Greedo]

That's really interesting!
Didn't see many of the luxury yachts etc but there were a lot of tears.
Nice hands and a healthy imagination. (A pain in the butt when you're lying on the beach 'together' though.)
Thank you Greedo.

Are you being sarcastic?

 

[Aperitif]

No.
I think she is really organised in the way that the story develops thanks to her perception...her potential 'material' as inspiration to depict stories is vast.
And yes, she's ok looking but I wasn't really interested in that aspect.

 

[Aperitif]

Oh, and I think it might be something about the story of Poles who murdered Ukranians at the end of the Second World War...

 

[Greedo]

Oh, and I think it might be something about the story of Poles who murdered Ukranians at the end of the Second World War...

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 £75,000.

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."

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

The story is related to Ukrainians murdered by the Germans in the 2nd World War, her act was reported in quite a few newspapers. See:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/aug/13/ukranian-sand-artist

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kseniya_Simonova

 

[rich p]

That was posted a while back on here but it's worth repeating

 

[Will1985]

http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=41381

 

[Aperitif]

Excellent everyone - it's nice to have the blank bits filled in - I never saw that first time around...mind you, I'm not on here much.

 

[Stephenite]

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.

I was going to make a fatuous joke re: 'britains got talent', 'the shame of it', etc. until i read this. I guess i could resort to making fun of her surname!

Anyway, thanks for putting it up.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

That was great.

Shouldn't have my head buried in the sand, pity I missed it first time round.