Comments on: Storytelling in sand.

Storytelling in sand.

dmd — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:02:23 -0800

Drawing and storytelling in sand.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:16:41 -0800

Wow! That was amazing.

By: rageagainsttherobots

rageagainsttherobots — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:24:56 -0800

I've never seen anything like this. Super cool.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:26:45 -0800

Jeez, I think this has been here twice before but both links are now dead. Internet Classic!

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:43:12 -0800

Can anyone provide context to this? It's clearly a Ukraine's Got Talent type show, but the audience are in tears throughout, and it's pretty clearly about Ukraine's involvement in WWII. Is this a well-known story or archetype? Aside from that, I think this is gobsmacking performance art.

By: heyho

heyho — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:47:43 -0800

Whoa; that was cool. New to me, so thanks!

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:52:11 -0800

Jeez, I think this has been here twice before but both links are now dead. When I read that, I thought for sure it was going to be this video from way back. Cool that it wasn't

By: Happy Dave

Happy Dave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:58:57 -0800

Some background. Apparently:

"Social effect of this stunning performance is obvious: yesterday I've seen dozen of kids in the hood trying to draw with sand on the road and on the parts of the broken window-glass laying on the ground."

Pretty cool.

By: echo target

echo target — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:00:57 -0800

There's lots of moments of "What the hell is...OH WOW" in there.

By: Autarky

Autarky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:02:10 -0800

I was just going to post this. Here's a link to lot more videos of her work

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:06:00 -0800

hypersloth, I may have conflated those two. *scratches head* Now I'm curious what the dead links from past posts go to!

By: Autarky

Autarky — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:12:58 -0800

Also, fyi, the title is "Requiem from/with sand" and the text at the end reads "You are always near"

By: six-or-six-thirty

six-or-six-thirty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:19:10 -0800

Thirty seconds into that video I knew I was going to favorite it.

By: aliasless

aliasless — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:43:59 -0800

That was amazing. The Metallica was like a cherry on top.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:46:59 -0800

Great.

By: vernondalhart

vernondalhart — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:20:44 -0800

That was fantastic. I got a little teary towards the end, and I know nothing about Ukraine's WWII history... That was amazing. The Metallica was like a cherry on top. It's actually Apocalyptica, from the album Inquisition Symphony. Worth picking up; there's a few Metallica covers on there, but there are other covers, as well as some quite decent original compositions.

By: vernondalhart

vernondalhart — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:21:07 -0800

Oh yeah, anyone know how she did in the contest/show?

By: de

de — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:51:01 -0800

she made it to the final: part1, part2

By: Askiba

Askiba — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:01:47 -0800

That's amazing. But what's more amazing is how flawless it seems. Even just throwing the sand onto the table had purpose. It was a strange joy seeing her carefully scrape away sand from the "wall" she draws at 5:00.

By: olya

olya — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:33:12 -0800

The songs are Russian, not Ukrainian. The voiceovers in the video start off by announcement of the war (the hollow voice over the bench couple); then a ballad about the kid sleeping at home while the bullets whistle in the fields. After the musical interlude it is another Russian song about those who didn't return (the lyrics are along the lines of - those who did not return are only left as voices of the birds in the fields; and that is the reason we are often silent when looking into the skies). The last musical interlude (as mentioned above) is over the text "You're always near" (Can be also translated as "you are always close [to me]"). The general storyline of the men who were lost in war touches most born in ex-Soviet countries - each family has a war story; everyone lost someone. Soviet Union had the most military and total casualties in that war [cite]. My granddad was wounded in WW2; his wound was so deep that it didn't heal for 50 years. He didn't like talking about the war. The painting is beautiful, but the story is profoundly touching.

By: Shotgun Shakespeare

Shotgun Shakespeare — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:55:53 -0800

Reminiscent of the work of Gerald Conn, the Welsh sand animator who's currently participating in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC. His stuff is maybe a bit more abstract but beautiful.

By: gryftir

gryftir — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:08:50 -0800

Thank you DMD... that was wonderful.

By: shannonm

shannonm — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:24:01 -0800

Simply stunning. Thanks for the link.

By: snsranch

snsranch — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:04:33 -0800

DMD, that was beautiful and amazing. Thanks for posting it!

By: orme

orme — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:34:51 -0800

Not a single wasted gesture. Makes me think that she must have practiced this quite a lot to get it so seamless.

By: Uccellina

Uccellina — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:39:15 -0800

That was astounding and beautiful, and I am so glad I watched it.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:50:21 -0800

So I'm the only one that remembers this from Sesame Street?