Urso Chappell’s ExpoMuseum Blog: November 2009

30 November 2009

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27 November 2009

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26 November 2009

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25 November 2009

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  • 12:43 Forbes has an excellent commentary about Shanghai's Expo 2010: "The Biggest Event You Never Hear Of -- But Should": tr.im/FHeH #
  • 12:44 RT @shanghaidaily: 40+ free baby centers will be set up in World Expo park to help mothers nurse and change their babies.xpo.sh/k #
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24 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 11:03 RT @thinklondon World Expo in Shanghai, 2010: UK launches Pavilion Website: www.ukshanghaiexpo.com #
  • 14:43 Visiting #IAAPA, two folks joked about end of the world in 2012 when talking about Yeosu's Expo 2012. Technically, Expo 2012 ends first. #
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23 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 01:32 22 November 2009: 160 days until Shanghai's Expo 2010 opens... 81 years since the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) was founded #
  • 17:14 RT @jeremymburton Palace of Fine Arts flook.it/c/2GT6d3 Built for the World's Fair in the 1910s. Rebuilt in the 1960s when it fell... #
  • 17:19 Norway at Shanghai's Expo 2010: www.expo2010.no/ #expo2010 #
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18 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 00:23 I can never get enough of Expo 67's Ontario Pavilion presentation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3hDqKoHUqU (video) #
  • 08:59 RT @nycparks Parks Breaks Ground On Restoration Of 1939 World's Fair Relic bit.ly/Cm8Rd #
  • 09:01 RT @shanghaidaily Hillary Clinton visited construction site of the USA Pavilion, pledged her support for world's fair. is.gd/4WK8F #
  • 12:21 RT @greendiary BIO(da)TA: Sustainable thematic pavilion for Yeosu Expo 2012 ib.im/dxdnb #
  • 16:16 More informa tion about plans for Expo 2010's virtual world's fair: tr.im/Fbjhl Oddly, it doesn't include the link: www.expo.cn #
  • 16:16 RT @JRibakove twitpic.com/px2ek - I can't tell whether abandoned World's Fair structures look ominous or depressing. #
  • 19:52 RT @halloweely The more I read about 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the madder I am that time machines haven't been invented yet. TO THE MIDWAY! #
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17 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 08:29 RT @judauzz Mayo Football cards include a hamburger card as part of the World's Fair Attractions set. bit.ly/7CRuk #
  • 08:30 RT @AskWildChina President Obama mentioned his willingness to attend The Shanghai World Expo next year. (From May 01 to Oct.31, 2010) #
  • 08:35 RT @teafordaydreams Hillary Clinton tours USA Shanghai Expo 2010 pavilion site/ sponsors? bit.ly/3yCI3U #
  • 08:37 RT @TheGumGuy: Danish Design School Kolding and Tongji University in Shanghai work on green bike designs for Expo 2010 j.mp/39K0X4 #
  • 18:40 @ jenniferdavis They still go on. We haven't had one in North America since 1986. Edmonton might get 2017, though. www.ExpoMuseum.com/ #
  • 18:45 RT @theseasonpass Daily Reminder: www.podcastawards.com Season Pass for Best Travel. ;) Thanks! #
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16 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 10:52 The new www.expo.cn/ website is really addictive even if it isn't in English yet. It will grow into a virtual #expo2010 site. #
  • 16:57 @WDFMuseum has some great items from the 1964-'65 New York World's Fair as well as references to other world's fairs during Disney's life. #
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14 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 08:04 @writeallthetime Actually the 1900 World's Fair CLOSED on 12 November 1900: www.ExpoMuseum.com/1900/ #
  • 08:08 The US Pavilion at Shanghai's #expo2010 is now hiring: www.usapavilion2010.com/jobs #
  • 08:15 ExpoMuseum's @ursochappell is interviewed in today's World Expo Blog post: bit.ly/1oM0zW #
  • 09:22 RT @edmontonstories A "deep green" vision for @UnivOfAlberta south campus. Potential showcase for Expo 2017 bit.ly/3H8GVB #yeg #
  • 12:30 RT @archdaily: Finland Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010 bit.ly/3fQQ42 #
  • 15:03 The technology in the Australia Pavilion show at #expo2010 will be similar to that of Epcot's American Adventure, but in the round! #
  • 15:27 Aerial tramway could take guests across Milan to Expo 2015: bit.ly/2l3kJY #
  • 21:25 RT @BigOzone In 1939 NBC begins regular television broadcasts in New York, with opening of World's Fair. #
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13 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 10:33 @jralstin I believe you meant that the 1900 World's Fair CLOSED on 12 November 1900: www.ExpoMuseum.com/1900/ #
  • 10:37 RT @petemosley Competition to design/make the official gifts from the UK at ... Expo 2010 open to craft makers in Britain. ow.ly/B9sU #
  • 10:48 12 November 2009: 170 days until Shanghai's #expo2010 opens #
  • 11:41 Video about the "upcoming" 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville: bit.ly/2RuHr5 #
  • 13:43 Obama's schedule for Shanghai revealed: tr.im/EQq6 In his one day, he won't be visiting #expo2010 construction site. #
  • 18:55 Shanghai Expo Online is now online in Chinese: www.expo.cn/ English is expected later. It's very Flash/audio intensive! #
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12 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 10:48 RT @TXArchitect "Sun Valleys" to light up the 2010 World Expo and manipulate the space time continuum! tinyurl.com/yk6vs9l #
  • 11:30 The last world's fair in the US closed 25 years ago today: The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition: www.ExpoMusuem.com/1984/ #
  • 11:32 Video: Kool and the Gang perform "Get Down On It" at the 1984 New Orleans World's Fair, which closed 25 years ago today: tr.im/ELi0 #
  • 11:46 The last world's fair in the US closed 25 years ago today: The 1984 Louisiana World Exposition: www.ExpoMuseum.com/1984 #
  • 13:35 New Orleans' 1984 World's Fair featured the first official mascot: tr.im/ELMk Every world's fair since has had one except 1992 Genoa. #
  • 14:48 @PRCNO Yep... the PRC and the *other* PRC was there, too... who host the next world's fair in Shanghai. It was P. R. China's 2nd pavilion. #
  • 21:11 Seattle's 1962 World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) gets the MST3K treatment: bit.ly/4w3f63 #
  • 21:32 RT @stavestudio #Yeosu Expo 2012 Immersion, Emergence and Environmental Integration, images from the AIA Seattle...: bit.ly/ 2DyGCM #
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11 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 17:24 RT @ju_mp Thailand will bid for World Expo 2020 bit.ly/2ebd48 #
  • 17:27 More information about a possible Expo 2020 bid by Thailand: bit.ly/3dlO13 #
  • 20:01 Expo 2010 United States Pavilion design unveiled: bit.ly/344UYJ #expo2010 #
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10 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 00:16 It looks like Expo 2012 has changed mascots. I'll have to do some research. www.expo2012.or.kr/eng/expo2012/symbol.asp #
  • 13:56 Talking with some of the press, esp. younger folks: they have a hard time explaining the "expo" concept... that they're world's fairs. #
  • 15:20 RT @NYPLmssarchives The NY World's Fair 1939-40 records are held by the MSS & Archives Division @nypl Contact: www.nypl.org/mssref #
  • 15:21 RT @CyG_photos New York World's Fair 1964-65, BW, New York, NY, US bit.ly/3YHq0J #
  • 15:25 RT @SpaceHospital twitpic.com/ovvs7 - Why taking a boring elevator when you can take - The Bubbleator! (from 1962 Seattle WF) #
  • 15:29 @SpaceHospital The Bubbleator is now a greenhouse: bit.ly/3EW2dM #
  • 15:32 RT @CenterdinCHI Upcoming event: 1933 WORLD'S FAIR HOMES - 11/14/2009 bit.ly/Rp4sE #chicago #
  • 21:03 RT @worldexpoblog World Fairs historian and author Guillermo García Tirado writes for World Expo Blog ping.fm/yYfno #
  • 21:06 @stephenjoyce @JEBworks Switzerland's pinball machine toured after Expo 86. I saw it again at Lenox Square Mall in Atlanta in 1987. #
  • 21:10 The Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) has updated their web site: www.bie-paris.org/ #
  • 21:20 RT @worldexpo2010 Thailand unveils its presentation in Expo 2010 tinyurl.com/ycbuefy #expo2010 #
  • 21:23 Video: Armenian jazz group The Time Report performing at Japan's Expo 2005: bit.ly/1x85XN #
  • 21:28 Hannover, Germany's Expo 2000 morphing logo and jingle were bo th groundbreaking: bit.ly/iBRt7 (video) #
  • 23:05 Video: Expo 93's Fantastic Odyssey lives on at Lotte World in Seoul: bit.ly/2lL614 #
  • 23:26 RT @contempstandard Bollettino: IMPRESSIONS OF EXPO 67 (cli.gs/zPT9v) #
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08 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 01:58 Updated the design of the home page. More changes will likely happen in the coming weeks as I try to make the site easier to use. #
  • 13:44 UCF is creating a virtual 1964-'65 New York World's Fair. Fox News thinks the cost is outrage: tr.im/EthW It's not: tr.im/Etin #
  • 14:20 @jgp_ppb The era of world's fairs lasts from 1851 to at least 2015... www.ExpoMuseum.com/ #
  • 16:37 Hippie minibus from Spokane's Expo 74 recovered... in Los Angeles... in a shipping container... tr.im/EtW9 #
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07 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 11:02 RT @jgerencser Hey, New Yorkers! Anyone know where I can find the primary archives (if such exists) of the 1939 World's Fair? #
  • 11:03 RT @nycre World's Fair Pavilion Gets A Hand: After an engineering study revealed that... After an engineering study... bit.ly/3wkkyV #
  • 11:04 RT @SenMitchell Just saw Mayor Mandel in Ottawa airport. he was in Ottawa working on Edmonton's 2017 world's fair bid. Good luck Edmonton. #
  • 13:25 First version of virtual Expo 2010 to be launched on 12 November: english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6806464.html #
  • 13:27 Some 1964-'65 World's Fair exhibits ended up at Disneyland. I wonder if some of Expo 2010's exhibits will end up at Disneyland Shanghai. #
  • 16:26 More info about '64-'65 NYWF New York State Pavilion preservation: tr.im/EnZN tr.im/Eo0h Perhaps we can go in some day. #
  • 16:32 Haibao breakdances in this new Expo 2010 promotional video: bit.ly/4ixfAR #
  • 16:37 Lots of new national pavilions added to this updated Expo 2010 video: bit.ly/3VT53s Spectacular renderings! #
  • 16:42 Video: great ove rview of world's fairs in general and Expo 2010 plans: bit.ly/4FwNwF #
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05 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 00:55 RT @HHShkMohd: Dubai 2020 working grp discssed & examind latest ideas 2 support & strengthen Dubai's bid for 2020 World Expo & Olympic Games #
  • 10:56 RT @SeriWallender twitpic.com/o69k2 - friend's family photo of Poseiden & The Mermaid from 1984 World's Fair- memories #
  • 11:09 1915 San Francisco fans: The @Exploratorium is free today and their 40th Anniversary celebrations start tomorrow! bit.ly/2wXIH3 #
  • 11:10 RT @AdamMinter: twitpic.com/o7op9 - New image of under-construction US Expo 2010 pavilion. Kind of looks like an outlet mall ... #
  • 16:53 @nadiasoul The world's fair next year in Shanghai will have an online option: bit.ly/IlqnN #
  • 16:53 Expo 2010's Australia Pavilion looking really close to finished: en.expo2010.cn/a/20091103/000004.htm #expo2010 #
  • 23:11 Open question: It's been 25 years since the US held a world's fair. When we hold the next one, where should it be? #
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01 November 2009

Yesterday's ExpoMuseum Twitter Posts

  • 14:38 @drgonzolives Yes. There certainly all still world's fairs, but we haven't one in the US since 1984: www.ExpoMuseum.com/ #
  • 14:44 RT @tingc Shanghai and Yeosu Expo organizers collaborate: Organizers of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the 2012... bit.ly/1VKIIl #
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