# Sand Animation **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 12, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160 "2009-08-12T11:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/1 "2009-08-12T11:44:17Z")
I provided this link in another thread, but it seems as if a lot of people haven’t seen it, and it really is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen on the Internet. [Sand Animator Kseniya Simonova](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=518XP8prwZo) won “Ukraine’s Got Talent” with a remarkable performance about Ukraine during World War II. It’s really worth seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/2 "2009-08-12T12:26:23Z")
Extraordinary. Beautiful. I have relatives who were in Ukraine during WW2; my grandmother was an artist from Kiev and her brother was a submarine captain, so I found it personally moving as well. Takes finger painting to a whole 'nother level, haha. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/3 "2009-08-12T15:12:11Z")
That gave me chills. Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![MaddyStrut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@MaddyStrut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaddyStrut)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/4 "2009-08-12T16:31:23Z")
I didn’t know anything like sand animation existed. That video is just incredible. That artist definitely does have talent! Not only does she make some very nice “pictures” in the sand, her presentation is powerful and moving. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/5 "2009-08-12T16:35:56Z")
WHATEVER! Ukraine’s got TOO MUCH talent. That was amazing on many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Lantern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lantern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lantern)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/6 "2009-08-12T17:13:22Z")
A bit of [context](http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=sand+animation&id=3cfefadad928c5f3b8e576b0439b0650)about this amazing video: > [@](#): > > This incredible “sand animation” is performed by the 2009 winner of the Ukraine “Got Talent” television series, Kseniya Simonova. Apparently, it is telling the story of life during WWII, which would explain the emotional reactions of some of the audience. The text at the end where they’re staring at the sailor’s ghost says: “You are always nearby”.The 24-yr-old atist’s prize was 1,000,000 Ukrainian hryvnia (April 2009, approximately US $125,000) > > What she depicts is love and war, set amidst the turmoil of The Great Patriotic War, or as we call it in America, WWII. Ukraine was probably the area most devastated in the war, even more than Germany. It was a conflict that saw nearly one in four Ukrainians killed. Ukraine represented almost 20 percent of all the causalities suffered during WWII. The scene ends in 1945, with the death of Hitler and the end of a long war. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/7 "2009-08-12T18:28:50Z")
What song is it that made everyone cry? ---
**Author:** ![Rain\_Soaked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19adc/32.png) [@Rain\_Soaked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rain_Soaked)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sand-animation/506160/8 "2009-08-12T20:51:54Z")
It is a song called “Cranes” which goes something like this: “Sometimes I dream that our soldiers who did not return from the bloody fields, did not lie down into our earth, but turned into white cranes. Since those bygone days until now they have been flying over us and sending us their calls. Could that be the reason why we often get quiet and look up into the sky with sadness?”