Saturday, December 19, 2009

Ukraine's Got Talent - Sand Animation

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent) It really gets impressive at the 2 minute mark.


5 comments:

Irina said...

Quite incredible! Thank you for putting it up on your blog. I only wish you could understand the words...

Howard said...

How about a translation or at least the gist of it? One of the related videos is also of her and apparently her child has leukemia and it's asking for help.

The Dad said...

Who needs multitouch anyways?

Irina said...

When the war starts, the radio announcer goes on for a while speaking in a somber tone of voice.
This is the broadcaster Levitan, a very famous man in the former USSR. He was similar to Walter Kronkite here during the Vietnam War. Every day he would broadcast the latest news from the front, the losses, the names of the cities that've fallen to Germans. This particular broadcast, the most famous of them all, tells all the citizens of the USSR that Germany crossed the border at around 4 am on June 22nd and so on.
Then, soon after, a scary-sounding song follows sung by a male chorus. This is the most popular Russian patriotic song of the WWII.
It calls on everybody to rise up and destroy the oppressor while burning with righteous zeal.
Finally, the last, melancholy and very pretty song comes along and you can see a little baby in his crib and a mother's head. It's sung by a soldier in a hole in the ground who is thinking of his wife and a child. It's a beautiful song, just writing about it gives me goose bumps. Soon after this song starts, the whole place goes up in smoke.
And that's the gist of it.

Multi touch does seem somewhat inferior to this lady's abilities.

Howard said...

Thanks very much, that does add a lot to the experience.