Beautiful Sand Art, with Live music

[18Hearthstone]

Is this video available for download, I would like to use it for a class I am teaching at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, A

[18Hearthstone]

Is this video available for download, I would like to use it for a class I am teaching at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA

[Pixel088]

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[hardcore119]

1:12 look firefox

[ercspy]

where can we buy that light box n the sand anybody knows thxns

[TSOwca]

Thanks all, for the comments.

Art, by it's nature, is subjective. With any interpretive art, some folks are blessed, others are not. That's OK! However, it is the heart of Christ that we try our best to understand what may be a blessing to others, and in that understanding, be blessed by THEIR blessing :) When my son was 3, he LOVED children's Christian sing-along cd's. I could take or leave them, but I received a HUGE blessing watching his enjoyment. Such is Corporate worship, sometimes.

[earlbarker]

@TSOwca bible thumper

[TSOwca]

@earlbarker ??

Are you saying I'm a bible thumper? If by basing my foundations on scripture I am a bible thuymper, then I stand justly accused :)

If you're saying that in the video or conversations below, that I'm smacking folks on the head with the word, then I apologize for the impression I may be giving. Certainly not my intent.

[earlbarker]

@TSOwca you're way too nice to be mean to. im sorry

[TSOwca]

@earlbarker

No worries, Dude, it's all good!

Thanks for the reply though - yours was a first!

Peace

[pinesongwoman]

most beautiful, i enjoyed this very much, new to (watching) sand artistry and i am amazed, beginning to see the artists as varying styles etc. thank you for sharing.

[pinesongwoman]

this was beautiful, totally beyond most of our abilities to do, but thanks to this contributor we can enjoy them visually, negative remarks are just rude on here, can't believe it. i guess people will create hostility just to draw attention, when they don't have much else going for them.. just discovered sand artistry and i am amazed. thank you poster and artist. i appreciate you sharing beauty with us..

[9md89pnn]

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[mattokc]

Oh, God, people--just knock it off and enjoy the art.

[JSC1401]

Oh dear!

Read the Bible: it's so much more powerful.

I think you're treating us like elementary school children in this "performance".

[TSOwca]

Sorry...

By your logic, we should forego ALL art, all aesthetic efforts to represent our faith, and just read the bible. While reading and acting on God's word is at the top of our priorities, God gave each of us gifts to use. God is a creative God! He is the AUTHOR of creativity! And...we are made in his image. To not exercise our creativity would not be obedient to his call to discipleship.

The point is not the simplistic images, but the creative use of a unique medium to share our faith.

[JSC1401]

Don't be sorry :)

Everyone can have a point of view, although you are reading more into my comment than was there.

I totally agree with your remarks about art in worship and using our talents

But if I spend my time thinking about the artistic quality rather than what it is supposed to express, then I'm not sure that  gives us a wonderful image about your choices of what the share.

[TSOwca]

@JSC1401 Still not tracking with you...

Are you saying it's great to use our artistic talents in worship, but make sure to keep it non-descript and mediocre so we are not somehow distracted by said talent?

I understand the idea of distraction, but I'm thinking there is a subjective line between distracting and inspiring. I've always maintained that what is effective and acceptable with one church body MAY not be so with another. God allows for different forms of worship between believers.

[1401JSC]

@TSOwca

"nondescript and mediocre" are your words, not mine!

Such judgements are of course subjective; we're not all professional art critics.

A television programme is also distracting, but rarely inspirational, I'd say.

"God allows for different forms of worship between believers."

Where does the Bible say that?

Certainly not in the 10 commandments given to Moses, or their reinterpretation for his contemporaries by Jesus.

[TSOwca]

"Where does the Bible say that?"

Throughout the whole of it, at least in my bible, though "expressions of worship" may be a more accurate phrase.

*Jesus, paul, Silas, disciples, etc. sang - Matthew 26:30, Acts 16:25 .

* Through bowing or kneeling - Philippians 2:10–11

* Through clapping - Palm 47:1; Psalm 98:8; Isaiah 55:12

* Through the lifting of hands -1 Timothy 2:8

* Through Dancing - Psalm 149:3

Etc.

I do agree that there are forms of worship which may be displeasing to God.

[TSOwca]

JSC,

In reading your posts, I can now say (without malice!) that this offering in worship was not intended for you, or probably your church. For those for whom it was intended (our church), and for those who can appreciate a creative re-telling of God's marvelous act of creation as well as the amazing talents and gifts he gives his children, this act of worship-focused art was a real blessing.

I fear you represent a person such as spoken of in Proverbs 26:21, and am ending my responses :)

[TSOwca]

See what this does??

I've been dragged into being Earlbarkers accusation - a Bible Thumper! :)

Blessings to All!

[1401JSC]

@TSOwca

Love one another with a pure heart, fervently" allows men, not God, to tolerate strange religious practices.

[dimsummusubi]

im not much of a religious person but this is pretty awesome

[haiderson1]

how i can try this

[fightdare88]

1st God crate World ,sun, planet, then animal...

after that  human..finaly...He bring his son come to the earth..make a salvation to us...

Amen..GBU all

[mkdarpas123]

so beautiful...

[MaxAgond]

the musicians should have been heard and not seen.

[Edward7Isabella]

@MaxAgond Not true as a musician I get angry at what you just said. You basically said: "You should hear the awesome music but, the musicians aren't worth seeing."

[MaxAgond]

@Edward7Isabella I don't even remember why I said that.

[Edward7Isabella]

@MaxAgond Haha nice I don't know why that made me so mad.

[jazzlook]

@Edward7Isabella I fully agree with you.

Music, musicians and every kind of art should be always visible in the same level.

I guess that someone that doesn't want to see the musicians in a performance like this one should stay at home, listening only the music.

[jsharp1701]

@jazzlook Perhaps MaxAgond shouldn't have stated it so bluntly. But I believe the point they were trying to make is that intercutting the musician images during the middle of this piece probably wasn't the best choice. The most important element of these type of sand art presentations is the transition from one image to the next. The "What could he possibly make from that?" aspect drives the whole thing. In this video, the musician images are OVER some of the transitions. It does detract from it

[jsharp1701]

@jazzlook Having said that, it is a MINOR point and not something to start a flame war over. I saw Mark do a variation on this presentation at Willow Arts Conference that same summer and it was even more brilliant and (more importantly) an incredible celebration of God the creator, Christ our redeemer, and a succinct and beautiful telling of the gospel story without words. And the music was devastatingly beautiful as well. Peace.

[lex2928]

nice....i love the last part

[vertigo9393]

its ok......but i have seen better.....

[TSOwca]

Thank you very much for your comments.  You're effusive praise has lifted the spirits of everyone involved!

God Bless!

[bookworm13130]

same.... the shapes for the most part were to simple

[reidcore]

i saw someone do this live at my church retreat.

the transitions were what made it amazing.

they kept you guessing.

[romina335]

hermoso

[maninwhitedress]

excellent

[iFlyHlGH]

This was a wonderful sand art, however it was absolutely bothersome because of the fact that every time you showed the band it would absolutely ruin the picture that was being created through the sand art which I believed ruined the whole video for me

[TSOwca]

Thanks -

Umm...what band?

All I see is a classical guitarist and a cellist :~)

If you'll notice, the musicians are only carefully faded in between artistic ideas being performed on the sand, or when he's either wiping the slate clean or adding sand.

As this was being broadcast, the challenge was to show ALL of the performance, not just the sand art. I realize that to today's generation, recorded music (ie. lipsyncing) is as good as live, but we wanted to showcase REAL musicians as well :~)

[AntaresInScorpius]

very cool!!

[l21ennnok]

Yes,its so fine!!!

[TSOwca]

Sorry, Joely, I had to delete your last text response, as well as the other persons rather rude response.

[JoelyB2290]

OMG... i like

[era007ed]

such soothing music

[aguyyaknow]

I have not to long ago made my own art/music-video and It contains a lot of art by me as well as the song "getting away with murder" by the brilliant artist papa roach. You may find it interresting, as it has noticably high ratings. thanks for your time. :)

[BereinigtenWelt]

Very nice video!

[Nemesais]

....what makes beuty beutifull?

[Z4thura]

Accurate spelling perhaps?

[jjknz]

haha lol, tru dat

[delcorazon77]

LOL Be indulgent, maybe he is a foreigner :)

still that was funny :))

"L'art ne veut pas (forcément)la représentation d'une chose belle mais (surtout)la belle représentation d'une chose" - Kant

So,"What makes beauty, beautiful?" maybe simply the fact that our soul is touched when it sees another soul express itself from the depth of its core, going beyond all the daily BS, and reaching deep inside to bring that inner goodness we all have back to the surface, back to the light, back to life.

[delcorazon77]

@ Z4thura & Nemesais

previous post was meant as a reply to

Z4thura who had replied to Nemesais... For some reason it didn't appear underneath as it should have... How come? Youtube programmers, do you know what's up??? Oh well, hope it is still understandable...

Sand Art & music = very nice & impressive work :)

[JSC1401]

I wonder what the wca preaches about souls.

If we look to philosophers for help, many of them would not dissociate minde, bodu and soul.

[engin419]

ART

[hondvspoes]

woaW!!! this is so nice! I never heard about Sand Art but its so Beautiful! great, 5/5!

[cavemanzinho]

I found that very intresting, its a very good way to tell a story. How did you make the light box? is it plastic or glass?

[Wranglerbutts]

We saw this at church this past Easter, AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TSOwca]

Great! Was it our church? If so, who in our church has the login

"Wranglerbutts"??

:~) :~) :~)

[passionatehearts]

AMAZING ~ How touching that our God did all that!!! He IS Good!!!

[lmellish05]

I LOVE THE CELLO! Its such an awesome instrument (thats why I play it)!!

[lasff69]

if they show the orchesta at the mean time, we lose half of the sand art.

One thing or another.

[TSOwca]

Actually, when the two players are being shown, there is really nothing being done with the sand except clearing a previous drawing. Since this is the ONLY sand art on YouTube done to live music, we thought it good to show both.

[snowwhite2511]

Wonderful message about the saviour!

[Emilyrhunt]

I'm not sure what these other people are watching, but the music and the fading in and out and THE SAND ART are amazinga ALL TOGETHER!! What a feeling it gives....I LOVED ALL OF IT!!! WOW

[jmarlisav]

There are much better performances than this one

[TSOwca]

jmarlisav, thanks for your comment, I guess... :)

One of the aspects of this piece that I really like is the use of live music, specifically composed for this performance. ON most sand art pieces I see, the music is recorded. The live music aspect was a challenge to pull off, and I credit the composers with doing a great job! The two musicians playing are members of our worship ministry and have their own website, touchthestrings dot com

Blessings!

[jmarlisav]

I was not speaking on the music, it's fine. I ment the actual sand art performance, I wasn't particulary impressed by it.

[vicfde]

this is very beautiful

[Frink14]

3/5 because showing the people playing just makes the whole experience of the sand art, crap. I would take out the stupid fading in and out of the people playing and just stick with the sand art.

[TSOwca]

Frink14, thanks for the comment. Actually, when it cuts to the musicians, the artist is simply refilling the lightbox with sand. Live, the art was on the IMAG screens the entire time, with musicians center stage watching a monitor. This was hard to represent in a stand-alone video!

[Frink14]

That's what I thought. I actually like watching the artist transition from one image to the other when he/she is re-filling the sand. I actually think that is pretty neat when you go from one image to the next. Sorry my comments sounded rude. I would post both videos, one with and one without the musicians.