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[usernamenumber]

In today's instalment of People are Awesome (even when discussing not-awesome things)

I've seen sand paintings, and even sand animations before, but never performed in real-time. I am just amazed.

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[0467839.livejournal.com]

Incredible!

Any idea what she wrote at the end there?

[est-lladon.livejournal.com]

"You are always nearby".
Like "in my heart" or something like that.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

A ha! Thank you, it's always nice to have the occasional Russian on your friends list. =;)

I'm curious what your reaction to the piece was. To me, I was stuck by how universal images of change, war and destruction are because I was moved by it even though, to be honest, I don't really know the history that she was describing. And I wondered how being closer to the history would affect the message, and whether it would have the same or a different effect on someone from Russia as it seemed to have on the Ukranian audience.

[est-lladon.livejournal.com]

In this particular case it does not mean whether you are ukranian or russian. We were the same country and we fought the same war in question. In Soviet time after the war there was huge amount of war movies and songs (Vysotsky has lots of songs about the war). Basically a whole mythology was created and a lot of images and other bits are instantly recognizable by anybody who lived there. For example there is a bit closer to beginning when an announcment is made through that radio thingy. It is in fact a recording of real announcement when Soviet Union was attacked by Germany 22th June 1941. Everybody instantly recognizes that. For me it was like a very good and creative mash-up of recognizable symbols from a very long tradition of depicting the war. It works pretty good - people are crying in the audience. At Soviet times they were pretty effective in stuff like that.

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that was very informative. Please excuse my ignorance.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I knew you would love that. :)

[usernamenumber.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you for sharing it with me, it was amazing!