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If you want to see art at it's most creative and moving watch the video in this article from Guardian news about the winner of a Ukraine talent tv show.

Get ready to be completely blown away!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvand ... and-artist

i saw it. i couldn't stop watching it, great performance. she deserved to be a winner for sure!

Incredible!!

WOW!

She must've practiced that a lot, but it doesn't matter. That is truely impressive.

and she's hot..

That is really impressive. How did she ever think of doing this!

^ It's not new. The use of sand as a medium apparently originated in Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, but the use of a light box must be pretty recent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_animation

Here's another one from her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOySXIftns

my jaw seriously hit the floor at some times. absolutely phenomenal.

DrDark wrote:^ It's not new. The use of sand as a medium apparently originated in Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, but the use of a light box must be pretty recent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_animation

I'm not surprised that sand has been used as a medium for a long time, but sand animation is fairly recent. The artist mentioned in this article started making some films around 1970, and although I haven't looked, I got the impression that they were done like claymation, using a movie camera to shoot one frame at a time. Sand animation came some time later.

It is still pretty amazing though!

Oh yes, I've seen this myself before. It is indeed absolutely amazing. Sand is such a cool medium to work with.

Hypnotic! What a talent!!

I'm not allowed to watch that youtube video because of "copyright restrictions", how about that?

anybody else suffered the same restriction here?

it was available to everyone a week ago. but i wanted to show it to someone yesterday and i couldn't.
anyway there are many copies of this video on youtube. one of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOhf3OvRXKg