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Taiwan's National Academy of Marine Research said Wednesday that its research team found a Hippocampus bargibanti, a type of pygmy #seahorse, in waters near the Penghu Islands in August, the first ever in that area.
https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202109220016
#Congratulations! Director Hsin-Chien Huang's latest VR works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach, were nominated for the 78th Venice International Film Festival!
The 78th Venice International Film Festival (VIFF) announced the shortlisted nominees for the category of VR Film. Taiwanese new media artist, Distinguished Professor of NTNU, Hsin-Chien Huang, winner of the BEST VR Experience in 2017 with his work La Camera Insabbiata, will again contest for the Leone d’oro this year with two of his latest, sci-fi inspired works, Samsara and The Starry Sand Beach. While the Taiwanese athletes are striving for the Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics as we speak, director Hsin-Chien Huang dazzles the jury of VIFF with his visually-stunning and thought-provoking works — bringing cutting-edge Taiwanese VR films onto the international stage and letting world-wide audience sees Taiwan!
Before being selected for the 78th Venice International Film Festival, Samsara episode 1. has already grabbed the Jury Award at SXSW and Best VR Story at the Cannes XR Competition. This futuristic VR experience teleports the audience onto a journey that spans millions of years. Samsara is a Sanskrit word meaning “ the world ”. In Buddhism, it means what we perceive as the world is actually an endless cycle of karma (cause and effect), a cycle of life, death and rebirth in the six realms of existence. In this fascinating VR work, the audience is reincarnated into the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing the universe in their new bodies and in search for the ultimate spiritual transcendence.
Samsara depicts an apocalyptical story in the near future where human greed has depleted the earth’s resource. Catastrophic wars to fight for resource resulted in global destruction. Finally, the remaining humans had to leave the Earth and go on a search in space for a new place to live.
Nevertheless, their desperate, long quest for a new homeland… could it be just a loop in space and time? The cycle of greedy domination and total destruction that then necessitates the search for a new home…. may have hopelessly repeated itself over and over again? The constant evolutionary process and so-called progress, without transformation in consciousness and spiritual advancement, is nothing more than a Möbius strip that leads nowhere, perhaps…?
Samsara is an experiment based on the theory of Embodied Cognition. Through interactivity and VR, the audience gets to live inside the bodies of different persons and creatures, experiencing their feelings from within. Perhaps It is when we can perceive the world in different bodies that we may truly appreciate the thoughts of others and empathize with them. An experience that will also help us better comprehend our own existence and learn to live in harmony with all.
Samsara explores a complex of deeply interconnected issues of ecology, technology, natural resource and war, etc. It's a story about a journey humans are forced to take on, after having destroyed the earth with nuclear disasters. The survivors seek a new planet, in the boundless, interstellar space, to carry on their lives. Gradually they evolve into a new life form artificially. Yet, many years passed and they’ve come to realize that they would never make it to the new planet they’ve been dreaming of. In fact, they have simply been returning to the Earth, in different life forms, time after time.
Director Huang applies the concepts of embodied cognition, offering a unique way to contemplate about the nature of life. As the audience are transported into different bodies each time, they gain a brand new perspective to experience the world views presented in Samsara.
Samsara was produced under the guidance of Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and Kaohsiung Film Archive VR(VR FILM LAB), it’s a sate-of-the-art VR production made 100% in Taiwan. In the VR experience, viewers are transformed into various kinds of animals to interact with the scenes, including species unique and indigenous to Taiwan, such as Taiwan Blue Magpie and Formosan Black Bear.
Samsara Ep.1 features the latest somatosensory technology, including 4D views shooting techniques by the Industrial Technology Research Institute and TAICCA. A digital shooting system comprised of a high-sensitivity 4 million-pixel, full-color CCD sensor and 48 4DV-EX-Z cameras made it possible for Samsara Ep.1 to be taken from an omnidirectional view and shot without any blind spots, creating the ultimate immersive experience.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH, directed by Hsin-Chien Huang and produced in cooperation with Lucid Reality (France) and Oready 瑞意創科 Oready Innovation Lab (Taiwan), is a scientific fairy tale about a unique ecological wonder in Taiwan and Japan, the shiny starry sand beaches. Foraminifera, from the Latin word “foramen” meaning hole, is a single-celled organism that builds a shell with multiple chambers which intercommunicate with one another through holes. On the Qimei Island, Taiwan and the Yaeyama Islands, Japan, beaches have been formed by a specific species of foraminifera with star-shaped shells made of calcium carbonate. Like the real stars in the legends, grains of the starry sand have also been preserving the earth’s memories for millions of years.
THE STARRY SAND BEACH is a real-time 3D interactive VR adventure into the natural and mythological landscape of the starry sand beaches on Qimei Island in Penghu Archipelago, Xing Sha Wan in Kenting National Park and Taketomi Island in the far south of Japan. The experience is full of aesthetically-amazing elements and enriched with cultural and religious significance like Shintoism in Japan. A beautiful, haunting legend tells the story of the starry sand…
The final winners will be presented at the award ceremony held on Sep11. With great anticipation and hopes, Hsin-Chien Huang is expected to bring home again the grand prize for Taiwan!
https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/selection-complete-works-venice-vr-expanded-0
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A Chinese fishing vessel and its crew were detained by Taiwanese authorities Monday after it was found poaching in waters near the Taiwan-held Penghu Islands, according to the Coast Guard Administration (CGA).
https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202106280025
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Here's a video with more information about the restaurants we went to and the places we visited during a three-day trip! One of the best trips I've even went on :) Missing everyone x
Meichu Vlog link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIUE3j9l9dA
Cinematic Penghu Vlog link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLfm3JgNeds
Time stamps
00:09 Day 1
01:12 Central old street 中央老街
01:31 Brown sugar cactus ice 黑糖仙人掌冰
01:36 Longmen beach 龍門沙灣
01:55 Moses' shop 摩西小舖
02:04 Moses parts the sea 摩西分海
02:46 intertidal experience 夜探龍宮 潮間帶體驗
04:34 Night view at Sanxian Pagoda 三仙塔夜景
04:53 Day 2
05:04 Dongyuping Island snorkeling 東嶼坪浮潛 南方四島國家公園薰衣草森林珊瑚礁
05:42 Blue Hole 藍洞
05:53 Dongji Island 東吉島
06:49 Aimen Beach barbecue 隘門沙灘燒烤
06:53 Firework festival 澎湖花火節
07:12 Day 3
07:23 Xingren diving center 澎湖興仁潛水訓練中心
07:38 Daguoye Columnar Basalt 大菓葉柱狀玄武岩
07:48 Erkan Historic Village 二崁陳家古厝
07:53 Whale Rock 鯨魚洞
Penghu is an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait and is known as the pearl of Taiwan. Firework shows are hosted in the spring and summer. Snorkeling, scuba diving, and canoeing are all common activities found throughout the islands. It is easily accessible as you can arrive by boat or plane. Visit Penghu for its diverse marine ecology and its scenic beauty :))
澎湖是在台灣海峽由90個島嶼和小島組成的群島，被稱為台灣明珠。 每年春季和夏季會有花火表演。 浮潛，潛水和劃獨木舟都是島嶼上常見的活動。澎湖旅遊散散心可以看見多樣化的海洋生態和美麗的風景～
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This video was filmed on May 5th.
這個影片是在5月5日拍攝的。防疫不出門，一起在家安心。
打開CC有中文字幕 // Come explore Penghu, Taiwan with me!! This is day 2 of our 4 day adventure. Stay tuned to the end for the budget breakdown & conversation rates.
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I went to Penghu over the past weekend with some friends from Tsinghua Weikong college :) Watch to explore Penghu with us!!
Time stamps:
00:11 intertidal experience 夜探龍宮 潮間帶體驗
00:27 cactus ice cream 掌上明珠 仙人掌冰
00:35 night view at Sanxian Pagoda
00:43 Dongyuping Island snorkeling 東嶼坪浮潛 南方四島國家公園薰衣草森林珊瑚礁
1:07 Blue Hole 藍洞
1:15 Dongji Island 東吉島
2:09 Aimen Beach barbecue 隘門沙灘燒烤
2:35 Firework festival 澎湖花火節
2:43 Sunrise at Moses parts the sea 摩西分海
4:00 Chingluo Wetlands 青螺沙嘴
4:16 Zhongji clay oven rolls 鐘記燒餅
4:19 Chingshin seafood 清心飲食店
4:30 Xingren diving center 澎湖興仁潛水訓練中心
4:50 Daguoye Columnar Basalt 大菓葉柱狀玄武岩
4:56 Erkan Historic Village 二崁陳家古厝
5:14 Whale Rock 鯨魚洞
5:29 Tongliang Great Banyan 通樑古榕
5:38 Houliao Heaven Road 後寮天堂路
Penghu is an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait and is known as the pearl of Taiwan. Firework shows are hosted in the spring and summer. Snorkeling, scuba diving, and canoeing are all common activities found throughout the islands. It is easily accessible as you can arrive by boat or plane. Visit Penghu for its diverse marine ecology and its scenic beauty :))
澎湖是在台灣海峽由90個島嶼和小島組成的群島，被稱為台灣明珠。 每年春季和夏季會有花火表演。 浮潛，潛水和劃獨木舟都是島嶼上常見的活動。澎湖旅遊散散心可以看見多樣化的海洋生態和美麗的風景～
#澎湖 #澎湖旅遊
