Here’s another one for the list of people I want to be when I grow up:
I love how the mix of having to walk only on the smooth parts to keep from tamping down the rough parts, and having to work with some speed to do the whole thing before the tide comes in combine to turn making it into a form of dance.
Here’s another short news piece about him:
Hey!!
Firstly- how was the Orange Bowl? Amazing. I knew it. Second- look on my FB page at my pictures- you’ll recognize a friend at my Orange Bowl Party. Third- the following was an email from a friend at work… reminded me of your video here… Last- call me sometime! I misssss you. Oh- we’re going to the Iowa/Indiana game at Indiana.. if you wanna come!
This video (see link below) 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 unique talent 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.
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.”
Watch on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vOhf3OvRXKg