Sunday, February 28, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Xmas Morning 2009
Mei Le carefully (with LOTS of tape!) wrapped up her jewelry box to give to Ebba!
Sparkly shoes!
Great hats from Auntie Rosann & Uncle Sheldon!
Catching Up - Pre-Xmas 2009
Can't believe how the time has FLOWN by! I have been most delinquent at keeping up on the blog. Those of you that are on Facebook may have seen some more recent pictures - but will try to update here. Let's start with some pre-Xmas pics!
Yule party @ my mom's:
Mei Le's school pageant:
Pageant @ Ian's church - she was a camel! (Can't you tell?? And yes - that's a hand towel, shaped with elastic bands into a camel head. I was fairly proud of it!)
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Winner - 2009 Ukraine's Got Talent - Incredible
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 good-bye.
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.
Kseniya Simonova says: 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."
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 good-bye.
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.
Kseniya Simonova says: 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."
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