Ukraine ’s Got Talent

[Paddy]

The artist is also very humane, she entered the competition to raise money for an operation for a sick child. The remained of the money will buy the artist a new home and also go towards looking after orphaned children.

[Spacecadet]

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He's using iTime

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[thunderlizard]

Ken Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Just saw her improved version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA
My faith in the human spirit is restored. I am going to get loads of work done this afternoon.
Brava valentina

[scooterscot]

F**k me!

Threaded, stop pissing about with that time machine will you?

We've just gone back 6 months!

Good gracious

[Moscow Mule]

Bulgaria meanwhile, hasn't Got Talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

Ken Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[thunderlizard]

aye, a certain geek of the board game subspecies posted about that a whiel ago. But I might have to watch it again now...

Bulgaria meanwhile, hasn't Got Talent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RgL2MKfWTo

[Zippy]

I think she's doing Twinings tea adverts now.

[Jeebo72]

yes, but can she cook?

[Pondlife]

Scooter, has some Mac update restored your browser to a few month back?

[Churchill]

F**k me!

Threaded, stop pissing about with that time machine will you?

We've just gone back 6 months!

[scooterscot]

I had to watch this video twice over it was that moving...


This video shows the winner of 2009’s " 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.

An art critic said:
"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."