#expo 98

[spoonyliger]

Inside joke for my fellow Portuguese millennials.

[blocodeespantamentos]

também eu, se voltasse atrás no tempo e visse tudo aquilo pela primeira vez, entrava na maquineta espantado e punha-me a dar voltas sem parar por cima duma Lisboa a estrear. Afinal, o bilhete não era barato e o teleférico dava para usar sem limites. E era bem mais giro do que estar duas horas numa bicha à porta do Oceanário.

Dos bebés da Expo ao homem do teleférico (*)

[64thyume]

Vash the Stampede: A Nature Documentary

YouTube randomly recommended this to me a couple months back, and I was recently reminded of it. If you've been in the Trigun fandom for a while or went to cons at a certain period of time, this probably will strike a cord with you...

[itsfantasticac]

Tokimeki Poster Collection was an A1 poster-dispensing prize machine, shown at AOU Expo in '98. As a joint venture between Konami and Banpresto, it would make use of the licenses in the "Banpresto Character Poster" line, including Tokimeki Memorial. It was never widely released.

Konami Look '98 Spring Edition, pg. 7

[jarchaeology]

Hi! I've just come across this : https://x.com/deanthebestboy/status/1900608470002638916?s=09

Do you know where this is from and do you have the full video by any chance?

that’s from jensen’s appearance on the leeza show during the soap expo 98. itwas a one-hour special titled “leeza las vegas” made to promote the event. the special was filmed in LA before the soap expo, but i haven’t figured out exactly what day yet. the soap expo itself was june 12-14, i believe. i say i believe because i’m pretty sure they had to move that date at least once before, and i don’t have time to check my notes.

anyway, here’s the video! i also have it saved in the 1998 section for videos on the drive.

[iamprchung]

If You Want to Believe...

(Am I really posting this? Yes, I am...)

I was digging in a box for a folder and... found some photos... Oh no.

I have a strange tale to tell. A story for the ages. A story so strangely steeped in the X-Files it might be a little hard to believe. I have images that document the strange tale.

April 29th, 1997 I was posting on what could be considered an ancient messaging board. I was looking for people who wanted to discuss the oh so sexy and surly Walter Skinner... and his most recent episodic strip down to his tidy whities...

I got a response back on the message boards. From the user name "FBI Skinner"... thanking me for the compliments... Then it got interesting...

He was on the east coast. I was in Texas. And just a little more than year later we were married, with a little FBI agent on the way.

Just after we found out we were expecting... randomly, we won VIP tickets to one of first X-Files Expos traveling the country in '98. Meeting Mitch Pileggi, who happened to also have a baby on the way. Our daughters are 5 months apart. (No comment on those pants I chose to wear.)

Mitch was incredibly gracious-- especially when taking photos with my husband, saying, "Let's cause some glare with these bald heads!" (Please keep in mind... this was 1998!)

As if it couldn't get odder, I was pregnant with my son right along with Scully's pregnancy with William.

28 years later... we're still watching X-Files. And I got back into writing fan fiction that he inadvertently helps with dialogue for (lol) , and we've got two amazing awesome kids... that wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the freakin' X-Files!

We, me and my husband, watched 'Shocker' the other night, the movie Mitch was in that was supposed to be, at the time in '89, the new Freddie Kruger... it tanked for apparent reasons-- and thankfully, because if that movie had succeeded, and Mitch had become a new horror character in a franchise of movies... there would have never been a Walter Skinner to strip down after doing some shady shit for the Smoking Man... And I wouldn't have two awesome kids.

That's crazy.

Oh... yeah... might be the reason I still write Skinner/Scully fiction. LOL.

So there you go. A weird little bit of history for anyone who might be interested in some origin X-Files from back in the day...

[numinousmysteries]

why don't you (x-phile edition)

inspired by the late, great diana vreeland, but zhuzhed up with a certain paranormal bouquet:

why don't you....

re-watch grotesque and join mulder on a terrifying descent into full-fledged profiler mode?

write a fic with that unpopular pairing you can't get out of your mind (mulder/melissa? scully/skinner?) and get surprised by how many others were thinking the same thing?

take a master class in the art of the perfect, hypnotic sentence and read (or re-read) Black Hole Season by Penumbra/ @mashnotesofthemythopoeic ?

sprinkle a few of your favorite lines into everyday conversation in a way that no one else would notice but that delights you? [can you get away with saying "lots and lots of files" at work?]

leave a comment on that comfort fic you've read and re-read dozens of times but haven't let the author know yet? (if you don't have one, may I suggest A Boy and His Fox by @sixhours?)

go to your local thrift store and see if you can find a former phile's discarded VHS tapes or X-Files '98 expo t-shirt?

start a podcast devoted to re-watching the series through a super-specific lens (scully's hairstyles, mulder's ties, decoding the decor of the basement office)? [i will listen.]

go for a walk around your neighborhood with Walking After You on repeat in your headphones?

re-watch i want to believe and not just the scratchy beard scene? [jk, no one should have to do that]

add your own ideas to the tags?

[mariabeatrizmalta]

Madredeus "Não muito distante" - Live Expo 98

[rachelroams]

🫣 Want the honest truth?

… I’m not much of an aquarium (or frankly, even a zoo) person. 🤷‍♀️

It’s not that they’re not interesting — it’s that I’d rather be IN the natural environment, diving or snorkeling or roaming amidst the wildlife; experiencing the wonders of our world in that immersive way. 🌍

For that reason, I can honestly say that the @oceanariodelisboa blew my mind. One of Europe’s largest aquariums, this world-class attraction centers around a massive central tank that’s designed to represent the global ocean. 🦑 Visitors can make a circuit around the multi-story tank—and its adjacent open-air habitats—observing 400+ species from various ecosystems that range from the Antarctic to the tropical Pacific.

🚡 From there, visitors can explore the surrounding Parque das Nações, a modern waterfront neighborhood that was transformed from an old industrial area into a modern complex for the Expo 98 World Fair. Visitors may stroll along the Tagus River, rent a kayak from the marina, or take to the sky for a cable car ride with panoramic views. ���

All in all, this is one aquarium that’s VERY well worth the visit! 🙌

Are you an aquarium fan? 🤔

[grusik]

Erró‘s giant mural ftrc.blog/parque-das-nacoes/ Lisbon's eastern edge was once a landscape of factories and industry. But that all changed when the vibrant Parque das Nações burst onto the scene! This formerly industrial area was completely transformed for the 1998 World Fair – also known as Expo '98, and some locals still call it by that name. Today, it's a spectacular district of elegant, stylish architecture – a nod to the past with nods to the future. I was there for a few days in May 2022 for a design conference and decided to use my free time to explore everything Parque das Nações offers. Here, I will share some tips so you can enjoy this part of Lisbon as much as I did. by ftrc

[tonguetyd]

Okay we don't really have mascots and such like you guys do, but we have this little guy. Meet Gil 🩵

He's a water drop 🥹💧

(Was the mascot for our internal expo in '98 - ocean themed - and up until somewhat recently, the mascot for our oceanarium. He's been replaced for a real-boy mascot character thingy, but his big-ass statues are still spread on this park. I used to say hi to him every morning while taking my driver's license 🥹💧)

I would fuckin die for Gil

HES JUST A LIL WATER DROP. A WET LIL GUY (we really are not beating the sad wet cat man lover allegations)

Thank you thank you thank you thank you for introducing us, I’m going to cry over his lil wave hair flip

[slasheru]

Heyyyyy Slasher Nation! 🖤 First of all - HOLY CRAP THANK YOU!! Even though the Kickstarter didn't hit the goal, the fact that 98 of y'all (!!) got us a SIGNIFICANT part of the way there (almost $3,000!!) is MINDBLOWING!! <3333 I can't thank you enough 😭

So What Now / Wait you had a Plan B the whole time?!

Yeah, man, you thought I was just gonna leave you guys hanging? ;) We're gonna try this again with a WAY smaller goal on Crowdfundr! (I'll talk more about this below!) Short pitch is: $1,125 goal (which we nailed in 48 hours here), keeps SU running, launches September 7th, Crowfundr is being hella cool and sponsoring it for SPX Spotlight, follow along HERE! [https://crowdfundr.com/slasheruact2]

But ALSO, holy crap, you guys are AMAZING:

I can hardly call this thing a wash, though, because the amount of love, attention, and SOLD COPIES OF SLASHER U: ACT 1 have been ABSOLUTELY FUCKING WILD. I just wanted to shout out to:

More than 600 new Slasher U: Act 1 players downloaded the game since the Kickstarter launched

Slasher U: Act 1: Alpha Edition maintains a whopping 4.9 out of 5 Stars average rating on itch (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I sold enough copies of Slasher U: Act 1 to cover MORE THAN HALF MY RENT THIS MONTH!! If this Kickstarter stopped right here, you guys would've been able to cover 4 MORE months of rent & production time! Which is HOG WILD.

We got shoutouts from:

Beautiful Glitch, the team behind Monster Prom, Monster Camp, & Monster Roadtrip!! Beautiful Glitch are one of my most inspirational/aspirational heroes of game dev, and the Monster franchise was a HUGE inspiration for SU, so I can't BELIEVE this happened!!!! Thank you guys SO MUCH!!! <333

WWAC (Women Write About Comics), where journalist Alenka Figa wrote SO MUCH NICE STUFF about my storytelling I'm gonna fuckin cry!!

Corinne Halbert of ACID NUN - she and I are actually gonna do an Acid Nun x Slasher U collab where you'll be able to unlock an Acid Nun player skin!! Shhhh!!

The crew at Lewdgamer who wrote an awesome writeup of the KS campaign!

Indiepocalypse - we made it into Issue #42 and Alex had us on his podcast, which was SO MUCH FUN!! According to Alex, Slasher U had one of the highest audience participation/engagements he's seen on Indiepocalypse Radio, and it was MEGA FUN watching him parse some of your saucy Sawyer questions, LMFAO.

And here's some Slasher U & SUKS stats for you:

More than 2/3rds of you ended up dating either Sawyer or Tate. >:)

In total, 94 of you backed the game here on KS!!! YOU ALL KICK SERIOUS ASS

Almost 1,000 new copies of Slasher U: Act 1 (both Regular and Premium) were downloaded during the campaign!

During the campaign, at least 3 people personally thanked me for Slasher U completely changing their life by discovering something about themselves or making them feel seen and heard, which is going to make me FUCKING CRY and is the ENTIRE REASON WHY I MAKE THIS GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE. I love you all so, so so sosososoososososos much, Student Disembody. :'))))))

So this "Plan B", eh?

Some of you know I'm a cartoonist by trade (I drew for the official FNAF franchise and more!). This year, I ended up talking to some sponsors for this upcoming SPX (Small Press Expo), which is like SDCC for indie comics, including Crowdfundr - one thing led to another, and now I'm partnering up with Crowdfundr and SPX to bring you a WAY SMALLER but also WAY MORE PERSONAL campaign to keep the lights on here at SU, as part of Crowfundr's SPX Spotlight event! For the non-comics folks here, Crowdfundr is basically the indie comics Kickstarter - I've been buddies with this crowd (pun vageuly intended) for a while and I'm psyched to be doing this with people I've been meaning to collab with!!

The new goal will cover the absolute bare minimum of making SU - $1,125, which includes font licenses, the Mac port, and taxes. Then, any EXTRA will go to more production time on Slasher U! Basically, I'm swinging the campaign around so the minimum amount is the goal, and the goal-goal's the reach goal. The GOOD NEWS is we apparently smashed this $1k goal within 48 hours of THIS Kickstarter, so I'm VERY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT ROUND 2 OVER HERE.

(You'll ALSO still be able to snag one of those custom player skins I'm drawing - there's gonna be only 5 slots this time!) Aaaaand you can click to follow when the Crowdfundr launches in a month, here:

P.S: estimating the first Early Access build with *just* Laila's Act 2 content, plus some core extras, in the next month or month and a half >:)))

xoxoxooxoxoxoxo, love you guys SO FUCKIN MUCH, and, as we like to say on campus:

STAY HORNY!! xxoxooxox Professor Plutonium

[morbidsmenagerie]

How do you know when Asian forest scorpions are mature or not? I bought one at an expo the other day and thought it was not an adult yet, but honestly I'm not sure how to tell.

Depends on what species it is for one, 98% of all Asian Forest Scorpions in the hobby are Heterometrus silenus, though I have seen a few other types around.

These are Heterometrus silenus, the important thing to note is the matte black body, black telson (stinger), the relatively smooth claws with few bumps on the top margin, and the granulation on the cheeks.

Heterometrus silenus get smaller as adults, this is a relatively large adult male. Scorpions are measured from the mouth to the tip of the tail. Heterometrus silenus get 3-4" long as adults, and this male is about 3.5". It's unlikely he is going to grow anymore, so I would say he is adult at this size. It can get a little iffy if your scorpion is 3" long, because it could either be a small adult or a subadult that's going to get big. At younger instars, the telson can look lighter or look greyish, but in my experience it turns black fairly early.

These are all Heterometrus spinifer. Heterometrus longimanus look similar but I don't have any photos of them. Right away you can see they are a lot shinier (the green is a bit misleading he was in a strong light, in neutral light they look black), the granulation on the face is more extensive, they have red telsons, and more prominent spiny granules on the top margin of their claws. When they are immature, the telson looks white, and it will gradually change color until it turns red at subadult to adulthood.

They're much bigger than Heterometrus silenus, and get to be about 4-6" long. My male here was about 5", his size and red telson indicates he was an adult, but again if you have one on the smaller end there could be another molt coming.

So basically, first figure out which species you have, then you can make an educated guess based on size. Unfortunately there isn't a hard rule or change that happens when they mature, so usually it's just based on experience and an educated guess.

Hope this helps!

[atelierexpo-svito]

ça se passe à saint chamond france noel a petit prix: nouveaux !!! 2024 toutes les Œuvres contemporaines de l'artiste s.vito a (–) 98% a (–) 50% a (–) 1% du 5/12/2024 au 28/12/2024 L’atelier-Expo s.vito.. 2 rue ventefol 42400 saint chamond france le jeudi,vendredi, samedi, de 14h00 à 19h00 L’atelier-Expo s.vito sur emule et Shareaza

[tsasocial]

ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibition in Singapore almost fully sold for next year

ITMA ASIA + CITME, Singapore 2025 has attracted strong response from technology providers keen to support the modernisation efforts of textile and garment manufacturers from the growing textile hubs in South and Southeast Asia.

Billed as The Leading Textile Technology Exhibition Driving Regional Growth, the exhibition will be held at the Singapore Expo from 28 to 31 October 2025. By the application deadline of 12 November, 98 per cent of the gross exhibition space of 60,000 square metres reserved at the Singapore Expo has been booked by 731 applicants from 32 countries.

An established manufacturer and exhibitor at ITMA and ITMA ASIA + CITME exhibitions, Mr Lieven Beke, Marketing and Product Manager, Picanol n.v. said, “If you look at the exhibitions that are taking place in Asia, ITMA ASIA + CITME is by far the most important exhibition. Therefore, the decision to participate was made very quickly. The exhibition is an ideal platform for us to promote new innovations and technologies specifically tailored for the Asian market.”

The combined exhibition is owned by CEMATEX (the European Committee of Textile Machinery Manufacturers), China Textile Machinery Association (CTMA) and the Sub-Council of Textile Industry, CCPIT (CCPIT TEX).

Mr Alex Zucchi, president of CEMATEX, said: “The response for the 2025 exhibition has exceeded our expectations. Amid a dynamic global business landscape, the region around Singapore is home to a thriving textile and garment industry that is modernizing rapidly and embracing automation and sustainable technologies to enhance its competitiveness.”

Mr Gu Ping, president of CTMA, agreed: “ITMA ASIA + CITME Singapore 2025 will provide more opportunities to manufacturers in South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.”

The exhibition has also attracted members of leading textile machinery manufacturers from key associations in North Asia, namely Japan Textile Machinery Association (JTMA) – a special partner of the combined exhibition, Korea Textile Machinery Association (KOTMA) and Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI).

Sector wise, finishing is the biggest sector in terms of number of applicants. It is followed by spinning and knitting. Finishing continues to be an important industry sector as sustainability is high on the agenda for textile and garment manufacturers.

Mr John Wu, Marketing Director, Texpro Precision Technology (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. enthused, "We are excited to present our comprehensive range of digital dyeing and finishing solutions, designed to assist the textile industry to upgrade toward intelligent and sustainable manufacturing. We believe ITMA ASIA + CITME, Singapore 2025 will serve as an excellent platform to connect with the increasing demand from manufacturers in leading textile hubs.”

Limited space is available for application on a first-come-first-served basis. To apply for space, please visit www.itmaasiasingapore.com/exhibitor-centre.