Boyle marks WWI milestone

Filmmaker Danny Boyle is urging thousands of people to gather on British beaches and make silhouettes in the sand on Nov. 11 to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War. Sand artists will also create giant portraits of people killed in the war, which will be washed away by the incoming tide, Boyle announced Friday. The beachside commemoration caps four years of British cultural activities marking the centenary of the 1914-18 conflict, in which 20 million people died. Boyle said beaches “are truly public spaces, where nobody rules other than the tide.”