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I’ve been play­ing with my new DSLR this month (thank you Santa), and have been think­ing about some of the cool pho­to­graphic effects used in cam­paigns over the last cou­ple of years.

Get­ting the LED out in London

What do you get if you take a cam­era with a long expo­sure, some LED lights, some Lon­don scenery and some Kraftwerk-esque music?

This: Licht­fak­tor for Sky Movies. A bunch of guys hack­ing about with lights, cam­eras and action. Throw in some Star Trek and Star Wars noises and this is a great exam­ple of where cre­ativ­ity meets tech­nol­ogy. Waste some time this after­noon with a browse through the Licht­fak­tor Vimeo Chan­nel.

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Girl Genius. Source: Wired, 5 Tips for Rais­ing Your Girl Geek, 06/08/09 (Online)

I have often won­dered why I seem to be so alone in the world as a girl geek.

No mat­ter how hard I try, I never seem to meet other equally geeky girls. For exam­ple, if I try and engage my girl-friends, in a con­ver­sa­tion about hand­bags or shoes, fine; but if I bring up the ben­e­fits of hav­ing an Android smart­phone ver­sus an iPhone, they look at me like I am from Mars.

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We’re really excited about an upcom­ing event we’re co-hosting with a bunch of like-minded part­ners. On Novem­ber 4th we’re launch­ing the Euro­pean Demand Gen­er­a­tion Sum­mit in part­ner­ship with Google, Elo­qua, BrightTALK and Mar­ke­tOne. It’s going to be held in Lon­don at Alti­tude, which is on the very top floor of Mill­bank tower with views across Lon­don. Speak­ers include Amanda Job­bins, Omniture’s Neil Mor­gan, Jeremy Bevan from Nov­ell and Justin Gale, a senior online mar­keter from HP.

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