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#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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#samsara #chalkroom
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#VeniceInternationalFilmFestival #VIFF
#Thestarrysandbeach
#LucidReality
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早安～今年的大勢色系來了！
來看全球色彩權威選定的 #2021代表色 💛

2021年度色彩：迎接隧道盡頭的亮光
Pantone Picks Two Colors of the Year for 2021

#今天來讀紐約時報

💠“No one color could get across the meaning of the moment,” Laurie Pressman, the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, said on a call. “We all realized we cannot do this alone. We all have a deeper understanding of how we need each other and emotional support and hope.”

「沒有一種顏色能傳達這一時刻的意義，」彩通色彩研究所副所長勞裡·普萊斯曼(Laurie Pressman)在電話採訪中說。「我們都意識到是，這一點是無法獨立實現的。對於我們如何需要彼此，需要精神支持和希望，我們都有了更為深刻的理解。」

🔮So it should be a surprise to no one that the prognosticators at Pantone — those trend forecasters who scour the globe for months noting developments in clothing, cars, kitchens, coffee (the stuff that surrounds us) and translate it into a color they claim will be the dominant shade of the coming year — have chosen, as the color of the year for 2021 … two colors!

所以彩通(Pantone)的預測師將兩種顏色選為2021年度顏色，也就不足為奇了。這些趨勢預測員會在全球搜尋好幾個月，關注服裝、汽車、廚房、咖啡（等等我們身邊的東西），將其轉化為某種據稱將是明年色彩主宰的顏色。


🔆Both Ms. Eiseman and Ms. Pressman said they did not start the process with a two-color result in mind, but they realized early on that the stakes around the choice of color for 2021 were very high and might demand a new approach. Which does not represent indecisiveness, but a metaphor. Get ready for Ultimate Gray and Illuminating. Or, in normal-speak: the light at the end of the tunnel.

艾斯曼和普萊斯曼都說，在開始選擇年度顏色時，一開始並沒有要最終選兩個顏色，但他們在初期就意識到關於2021年度顏色的選擇意義重大，可能需要一個新方式。這一決定並不意味著這些預測師舉棋不定，而是一種隱喻。準備好迎接極致灰(Ultimate Gray)和亮麗黃(Illuminating)。用直白的話說就是：隧道盡頭的亮光。


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Primaries and Disqualifications (Lee Yee)

Elsie Leung said, not disclosing all of the provisions of the National Security Law (NSL) is to prevent invoking clashes in society, and that the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) has already conducted sufficient consultations with different sectors.

Without disclosing the provisions of the NSL, what was used to consult these different sectors? This point alone discloses how absolutely absurd the so-called “sufficient consultations”, “different sectors”, and frankly, her entire statement are.

There have been commotions in the online community around the suggestion of achieving international sanctions through large-scale disqualifications, focusing mainly on the contradictions between the pro-democracy camp’s primaries and a large number of candidates. Primaries mean an aggregation of votes, to avoid an overextended list of candidates who would be dividing up the votes and possibly leading to the reduction of the number of elected seats. Most of the pro-democracy camp, including young candidates, are supportive of having primaries. The primary selection mechanism stipulates that only the winners are able stand for election. Some suggested that even the losers from the primaries should go ahead and stand for election, and were criticized for violating the principles of primaries.

These principles, however, were drafted before the NSL. It was when the legal profession and some Democrats still believed there was room for negotiation, when the retired former Chief Justice Honorable Andrew Li Kwok-nang proposed to protect the implementation details within Hong Kong under the premise of accepting the NSL. Some Democrats also suggested to bring back Article 23 in place of the implementation of the NSL by NPC, or to adopt the sunset clause. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is willing to bargain, the red line for disqualifications of candidates could be drawn at the absolute “anti-NSL”, while turning a blind eye towards the Democrats who are willing to negotiate, such that LegCo would continue to have “decorative” Democrats.

The CCP categorically rejected all bargaining, and Andrew Li accused the Hong Kong NSL as completely undermining the independent judicial power guaranteed by the Basic Law. Martin Lee stated that “the Hong Kong NSL must be resisted fully”, and “people whose attention is being diverted to the devil in the details have already fallen into the trap devised by the CCP”. Moderates who wish to main the current system, to avoid “scorching-earth”, are already at a dead end.

The complete societal rift induced by the NSL is simple: on one side, you have people who blindly support an NSL without any disclosed provisions, including the pro-Beijing camp and the voluntarily “visually-impaired”; on the other side, you have citizens who support democracy. According to a poll conducted by the Hong Kong Institute of Public Opinion at the end of last month, 96% of the “supporters of the pro-democracy camp” opposed the NSL, and only 1% supported the law; Among those who are “non supporters of the pro-democracy camp”, 62% expressed support towards having the NSL implemented by the NPC, but those who opposed still amounted to 29%.

This was a poll done a month ago. With those who were willing to negotiate being rejected at this point, the societal rift should be more apparent. The situation is clear: any participant of the pro-democracy camp’s primaries, given that they have not been too vocal about opposing the NSL, even if they do win the primaries, have are able to join the election without being disqualified, they could still end up not winning the election. If citizens are to woefully cast their votes for candidates who do not oppose the NSL, looking at the poll, there’s only a 1% chance among the “supporters of the pro-democracy camp”.

Another situation that is clear: those who have openly and clearly opposed the NSL and somehow escape the fate of disqualification of candidacy is almost impossible. Even if there were, the voters would be doubtful of the candidates’ true stance, leading to a slim chance of getting elected.

As such, for the pro-democracy candidates, it is almost impossible to either oppose the NSL or to be disqualified for opposing. This, is precisely why the original intent of an aggregation of votes through the mechanism of primaries is likely to fail.

Disregard the results of the primaries. Flood the election with a loud and clear message of anti-NSL from a whale of candidates. This is the only way out. Having all or the majority being disqualified would be an obvious deprivation of Hongkongers’ right to vote, a guaranteed way to get international attention.

How much of a shockwave will international sanctions send to the CCP? An opinion piece published in Taiwan suggested that a senior Chinese official who may be sanctioned by the US because of the Hong Kong NSL has hidden assets in the US that are worth as much as US$3.1 billion. In 2013, Snowden, a former CIA employee who is now in Russia, announced that Chinese officials’ foreign deposits amounted to US$4.8 trillion. In normal circumstances, cash holdings account for only one-third of total assets, meaning that the total assets should amount to tens of trillions of US dollars (Hong Kong’s foreign exchange reserves are only about US$440 billion). And these were figures from 7 years ago.

International sanctions are, inevitably, internationally “earth-scorching”, where the side carrying out the sanctions will also suffer immensely. Freezing the assets of sanctioned officials in foreign countries will not help the sanctioning parties at all. Senior Chinese officials could care less about the Basic Law and Hong Kong’s human rights, but to laugh off one’s own properties? This is Hong Kong’s “earth-scorching” bargaining chip.

RD350LC RZ250 4L3 RZ350 4U0 Pocket rocket　ヤマハ・RZ

In the successor model of RD, is the name of the 250cc motorcycle-only car for the domestic market have been sold from Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. in August 1980.

During the 1970s, has been enhanced to automobile exhaust gas regulations, particularly in North America, the use of two-stroke engine is strictly day become, was born from the idea of ​​making the last two-stroke sport model.

"R" of "RZ" is originally, "Z" There is a symbol which means Yamaha 350cc in-house means a water-cooled. Turned from the last character of the alphabet to the other, also put that the meaning of the last, and the ultimate.

Engine that is designed around driving performance basic original sport bike takes the layout of two parallel cylinder two-stroke water-cooled (54mm × 54mm) bore and stroke same as TZ is a racer commercial made by the company at the time, as the same class boasted the top time of 35ps. Other plastic parts are also used frequently to reduce weight, the rear suspension is mono shock, such as halogen headlights cast wheel of the cantilever type of road sports model adopted for the first (mono-cross suspension), the new design, a large, state-of-the-art at that time was equipped with the item. Or partly because of that it was (August 1980) Release of have to wait nearly a year since 1979 has been introduced for the first time in scoop of magazine motorcycle, followed by some time situation such as waiting three months to delivery from order became a blockbuster about. Surface was well received by the hands of styling and design (GK Dynamics Co., Ltd. now) GK Industrial Design Inc. Research Institute. In addition, the white model of early type also known as the Pearl paint color is a beautiful flag of the Rising Sun aka. (White is solid white and later)

There is special mention to the height of the driving performance, that performance was more than equal Watariaeru four-stroke 400cc class with higher amounts of exhaust, was also called "400 killer" and. 3.97kg/ps power-to-weight ratio and also be used as a target for the vehicle, such as driving performance, which was a four-stroke 400cc class on a par with at the time. Uncommon at the time employed in the commercial vehicles (with the expansion chamber) of the chamber type of muffler, along with the image of looks up the race, had also contributed to the performance up. Many individual single disc front brake is said, of Riadoramu is too poor for the height of the driving performance, have a double disc of 350 specification

RD350LC RZ250 4L3 RZ350 4U0 Pocket rocket　ヤマハ・RZ

In the successor model of RD, is the name of the 250cc motorcycle-only car for the domestic market have been sold from Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. in August 1980.

During the 1970s, has been enhanced to automobile exhaust gas regulations, particularly in North America, the use of two-stroke engine is strictly day become, was born from the idea of ​​making the last two-stroke sport model.

"R" of "RZ" is originally, "Z" There is a symbol which means Yamaha 350cc in-house means a water-cooled. Turned from the last character of the alphabet to the other, also put that the meaning of the last, and the ultimate.

Engine that is designed around driving performance basic original sport bike takes the layout of two parallel cylinder two-stroke water-cooled (54mm × 54mm) bore and stroke same as TZ is a racer commercial made by the company at the time, as the same class boasted the top time of 35ps. Other plastic parts are also used frequently to reduce weight, the rear suspension is mono shock, such as halogen headlights cast wheel of the cantilever type of road sports model adopted for the first (mono-cross suspension), the new design, a large, state-of-the-art at that time was equipped with the item. Or partly because of that it was (August 1980) Release of have to wait nearly a year since 1979 has been introduced for the first time in scoop of magazine motorcycle, followed by some time situation such as waiting three months to delivery from order became a blockbuster about. Surface was well received by the hands of styling and design (GK Dynamics Co., Ltd. now) GK Industrial Design Inc. Research Institute. In addition, the white model of early type also known as the Pearl paint color is a beautiful flag of the Rising Sun aka. (White is solid white and later)

There is special mention to the height of the driving performance, that performance was more than equal Watariaeru four-stroke 400cc class with higher amounts of exhaust, was also called "400 killer" and. 3.97kg/ps power-to-weight ratio and also be used as a target for the vehicle, such as driving performance, which was a four-stroke 400cc class on a par with at the time. Uncommon at the time employed in the commercial vehicles (with the expansion chamber) of the chamber type of muffler, along with the image of looks up the race, had also contributed to the performance up. Many individual single disc front brake is said, of Riadoramu is too poor for the height of the driving performance, have a double disc of 350 specification

RD350LC RZ250 4L3 RZ350 4U0 Pocket rocket　ヤマハ・RZ

In the successor model of RD, is the name of the 250cc motorcycle-only car for the domestic market have been sold from Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. in August 1980.

During the 1970s, has been enhanced to automobile exhaust gas regulations, particularly in North America, the use of two-stroke engine is strictly day become, was born from the idea of ​​making the last two-stroke sport model.

"R" of "RZ" is originally, "Z" There is a symbol which means Yamaha 350cc in-house means a water-cooled. Turned from the last character of the alphabet to the other, also put that the meaning of the last, and the ultimate.

Engine that is designed around driving performance basic original sport bike takes the layout of two parallel cylinder two-stroke water-cooled (54mm × 54mm) bore and stroke same as TZ is a racer commercial made by the company at the time, as the same class boasted the top time of 35ps. Other plastic parts are also used frequently to reduce weight, the rear suspension is mono shock, such as halogen headlights cast wheel of the cantilever type of road sports model adopted for the first (mono-cross suspension), the new design, a large, state-of-the-art at that time was equipped with the item. Or partly because of that it was (August 1980) Release of have to wait nearly a year since 1979 has been introduced for the first time in scoop of magazine motorcycle, followed by some time situation such as waiting three months to delivery from order became a blockbuster about. Surface was well received by the hands of styling and design (GK Dynamics Co., Ltd. now) GK Industrial Design Inc. Research Institute. In addition, the white model of early type also known as the Pearl paint color is a beautiful flag of the Rising Sun aka. (White is solid white and later)

There is special mention to the height of the driving performance, that performance was more than equal Watariaeru four-stroke 400cc class with higher amounts of exhaust, was also called "400 killer" and. 3.97kg/ps power-to-weight ratio and also be used as a target for the vehicle, such as driving performance, which was a four-stroke 400cc class on a par with at the time. Uncommon at the time employed in the commercial vehicles (with the expansion chamber) of the chamber type of muffler, along with the image of looks up the race, had also contributed to the performance up. Many individual single disc front brake is said, of Riadoramu is too poor for the height of the driving performance, have a double disc of 350 specification