I’ve shown you this before, and hate repeated myself, but seemingly Eastern European performance artform seems to be worth another mention. This time, a new artist, Kseniya Simonova tells the Ukrainian WWII story on sand, bringing her audience to tears. She’s a beautiful performer in every way.

You can see an equally moving previous performance here.
Happy Friday.

An “Ads of the World” July 2009 Winner. Certainly gets the point across.

Check out the cause here.

Here is one fantastic stop motion ad for Olympus cameras. I can’t even begin to phantom the estimate of hours of planning, shooting, editing to put this piece together. Brilliant.

Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation (2001) book really got me started in 2001 (read excerpts here). Hardly walked into a McD again unless under extreme duress (when there were NO better choices. It happens). It was the eye-opener that I needed. I’m afraid that Food, Inc. might just push me over the edge and I’ll become a fanatical activist. Still, we should all be informed about a product that determines our survival, don’t you think?
Food, Inc. is now showing in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco with wider release starting next week. I’ll get to see it in a [...]

A meaningful and powerful song and beautifully executed video. Thanks to Robin Rice for sharing it on Facebook where I found it!

Oh, and here are the lyrics.

Michael Franti’s “Say Hey”.  I love you. I love you. I love you.

Thanks Robin Rice (BeWhoYouAre) for finding this.

HelloVino.com is a wine pairing and suggestion tool that will make wine (or bubbly) recommendations by occasions, meals, taste or regionial preferences. This handy little service can be accessed – entirely free – from the Web or from your mobile device (Hello Vino supports, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Palm and others).
And, should you not have Internet access on your phone, you can always use the Text messaging service: text the word “Hellovino” to 368266 that will trigger a question & answer exchange to get you to find the right wine. Seems like they thought of everything not to leave us stranded.
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OMG!!! I just bought one of these Orbit Brushes. Anyone who has a little girl, even one with straight hair, knows that brushing their hair can start the morning off on the very, very, very wrong foot. Which is why you see so many little girls with birds’ nests in their hair. A bird’s nest is preferable, by far, to the tears and screaming that come from detangling hair. A thankless and time consuming job if there ever was one.
Inventor (savior!) George Stydahar  is the creator of the patent-pending OrbitBrush, a hairbrush that promises to painlessly brush out tangled hair [...]

All great stereotypes of husbands as bad gift-givers represented here. I’m guessing that women wrote this script? ‘Cause men are hating this video.  Thankfully, my husband doesn’t even come close to falling into one of these categories.

Wanted to share this latest advertisement for HP, only because I think it’s beautiful… Enjoy!