If you've ever wanted to be in a flash mob this is your chance! Clarendon Day is a huge event in Arlington. We would like to get a large group of people to meet up a few times to rehearse and then show up at Clarendon Day with our fantastic FLASH MOB experience.

Pax Christi : Meetings, Fun Support Activities, & Peaceful Protests of Social Injustices like Drones through: Speakers Concerts Tweet offs Dance Flash Mob Meditation Flash Mob Petitions Thunderclap postings on internet Meetings with Politicians and Special Interest Groups Controlling Political Issues through Budgetary Means with letters from area congregations to Whitehouse/ Senate/Congress.

WELCOME WELCOME WELCOME! DSLR and Point & Shoot photographers, Photography is all around us. This group is about learning and becoming better at photography including the post processing of one's work through Lightroom.  Whether you're a beginner or pro, the workshops offered are for all levels. For certain this group will bring abundant opportunities to attend photography outings, classes and workshops on: Beginners and advanced photography Flash photography & studio lighting Establishing a p …

Calling all lovers of live events, music, flash mobs, and light shows!! LightsUp, a game changing new mobile app, is looking for passionate individuals to gather and partake in the first LightsUp enabled flashmob! Our technology and mobile app controls the colors of all the screens of all the Apple and Android smartphones in a crowd to turn the crowd into a dynamic light show! Imagine a sea of lights, flashing, changing, and shimmering to music! We are excited to see you at the next event!!

All things web technology from web design using CSS and js (JQuery, YUI, etc.) to backend development with PHP, Flash/Flex, Dev practices, IDEs. Come join us! There is food, too! Follow Twitter discussions with the hashtag #fredwebtech and follow us at http://twitter.com/fredwebtech.

This group focus exclusively on photographic lighting techniques. Mostly with off-camera flashes using snoots, gobos, gels, diffusers, reflectors, kookaloris (cookies) and lots of creativity. The goal is to learn from each other, practice what we learn and have fun! You should join if any of these apply: - you have a passion for photography - you are an enthusiastic photographer that wants to explore lighting - you read the "Strobist" blog and want to explore the lighting techniques learned …

Meet others interested in all aspects of web technology. Gather to discuss development, standards, networks, new web technologies, graphic design, databases, and tools of the trade such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Premiere and Soundbooth. Open to anyone interested in learning more about web technology!

The loss of Michael Jackson's genius of music and dance was a devastating blow to so many around the globe who have literally grown up enjoying his incredible talents. Whether it was his music or his dancing, Michael Jackson has always been light years ahead of the pack. I for one was planning to attend as many of his eventual touring concerts in the US that were physically possible when I picked up a voice mail message from Channel 9 News wanting to know if I'd come to a local rally and teach t …

Join Bash Nation and grow your business in style. At Bash Nation, business and pleasure go hand in hand. It is after all, The Social Life For Your Business™. We don’t do board rooms and office spaces we only do awesome. The movement has begun.... Nation Building: Networking Events: B2B Bash & Flash Bash Bash University: Webinars & Lectures Flash Bash: It’s fun, it’s free and it’s great for your business! The Flash Bash is open to everyone. We encourage you to invite other business pro …

Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group meets (at a minimum) once per month. Our aim is to provide opportunities for ColdFusion and Actionscript developers to meet and network with one another as well as opportunities to engage in presentations and learning to help sharpen your ColdFusion development skills. We are an active group and we always welcome new members. If you live or work (or can otherwise get to) Fairfax, VA then we'd love to have you come out. Speakers interested in attending our …

This is a group for people interesting in (and interested in doing) film animation. This can include visual artists, musicians interested in scoring films, writers and those who simply love to talk about animated films. We'll share the work we are doing in stop action animation, cel frame animation and more. Box Of Light Digital Arts Studio, host of the Meetup, will have computers and cameras available for who want to play with the concepts shared in each Meetup. The objective of this Meetup is …

NEWS FLASH: Beltway Atheists, Inc. is now officially a 501(c)(3). All donations made to Beltway Atheists, Inc. are tax deductible. This Meetup group is the public face of Beltway Atheists, Inc., which was incorporated in 2008 for purpose of becoming a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. In addition to charitable, educational, and advocacy activities for atheism and secularism, this organization will be used for fundraising and special event registration. Beltway Atheists, Inc. group an …

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Photo Therapy is a monthly photography workshop focused on understanding the basics of general purpose studio/location lighting and photography with an emphasis on portraits. It is organized by Alex DiFiori and Co-Directed by Matthew J. Rhein. The goal with these workshops is to provide a casual, social, and personal learning experience for amateurs, pros, hobbyists, and even people that have never used a camera before. They are hands on, honest, free form workshops without homework, textbooks, …

We are the oxymoron to the geek and nerd stereotype - the "social" nerds and the "chic" geeks. Sure, we love Battlestar Galactica, but that doesn't mean we can't hold our own at a high class social function. Yes, we can debate the finer points of whether Han shot first, but we can also jump into the fray and talk about the latest in pop culture. Although we can explain the relation between a "Hobbit" and a "Halfling" to someone, it doesn't mean that we locked ourselves away from society and stud …

We are a group of photographers who use social gatherings for networking and informal education. Happy hours, photo walks and GTGs at some of the more hip gathering places in the area is what we have planned. Also, we're going to throw in some lecture/education GTGs by some of the top working photographers around. Only the sharpest... only the brightest... only the cutting edge for us. Make sure to follow us on Facebook too!

Meet other local people interested in the technology, opportunities, marketing, scalability, advertising, and social impacts of social platforms including: * Bebo (OpenSocial, f8) * Facebook (f8) and Facebook Connect * Hi5 * Imeem * Kickapps * Linkedin * Lycos * MySpace * Ning * Orkut * Plaxo * Salesforce / Exchange And also stuff like Friend Connect, MySpace Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and clouds: AppEngine, Amazon Web Services/EC2/S3. And timeless marvels such as Softwa …

This group is for those interested in Electronic Dance Music in the DC area.  Whether you are a DJ, producer, partier, or just like lots of flashing lights in a dark room this group is for you!  Everyone can suggest meetups, so if you know of a show and want to let other people know about it feel free to add it to the list.  If you are a dj and/or producer you can use this site to connect with other people in the scene. Join our FB page at http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/142146885879042/

*** NEWS FLASH*** *Will NOT be adding membership fee. Please read new discussion on the topic for more information* It is our intent to reconstruct this group into a place where you will see postings for every sort of event that falls into the ALC spectrum. Now the events we intend to provide as the ALC group are going to be social parties,workshops and educational events.  A place where people from around the spectrum can come together in a safe nonjudgmental environment. There will be a membe …

Picasso created timeless masterpieces with nothing more than a stub of charcoal. Contemporary masters of photography continue to create spectacular images with nothing but a pinhole for a lens. It isn't about how much you spend on equipment. PhotoQuest101 Meetups help you master your machine in a fun social environment and shows you how to leap from the realm of 'snapshots' to magazine and museum quality photographs. We shoot in public spaces and we'll occasionally venture into off-limits locati …

Meet with a wide variety of new media artists, designers, , programmers, social media consultants, writers, audio/video engineers and theorists. Gather and discuss the the latest on the information revolution!

The purpose of this group is to share, in a practical way, basic, intermediate and advance lighting technique for photography. Both Natural and artificial light. Studio lighting or portable flash lighting. Everyone (photographers and models) is welcome no matter what your level of expertise may be. Come in  and learn or share what you know!

There are a number of really cool, informative graphic design, web design and technology driven groups out there and we wanted to bring the technology together. At the end of the day, a well designed graphic or website is useless without a powerful, stable, secure back-end and the most secure website is boring without a cool design and look. Let's bring the teams together and see how we could work together to create better designers and coders! This group is based on industry standards; new tech …

SET A RECORD for the Most Guitarists Playing a Funk Song! Music enthusiasts…join this group to participate in a massive, soulful rendition of the Funk classic, Maggot Brain. Feel the spirit of the late great Eddie Hazel, legendary Funk guitarist.

Refresh Rockville is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in Rockville, Maryland and the surrounding area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards. We have a special relationship with Montgomery College, who hosts the event, which gives us a regular meeting place and connection with upcoming design and developing professionals.

Master the art of photography and lighting by learning the correct way to use natural lighting, hot lights, and studio flash when shooting the human form, at our photography studio that's located inside our huge factory building. We are also planning on holding a variety of different group shoots and workshops (both studio and outdoors), in many different styles, such as: fashion, editorial, casual, glamour, gothic, & artistic. We're open to all levels of experience, from professional to amate …

The purpose of the group is to showcase local area talent and cover the graphic design, illustration, responsive web design, typography, advertising, self promotional, interactive and photography scene.   We want to also share ideas, discover opportunities, collaborate, meet potential clients, tap expertise, and establish partnerships. Meet the organizers, each one of them seasoned professionals in the creative and web design disciplines. How will we do this? Presentations on Photoshop, Illust …

This is a support group for women in Peri menopause / menopause. We get together to discuss, share, educate our new and challenging life change IE: hot flashes/ nite sweats, mood swings, depression, low libido, memory loss, weight gain etc. Feel like menopause has knocked the sexy out of you, feel alone dealing with the new you, who you didn't invite. Lets help and inform one another how to embrace this new phase into women hood. Your not alone and your not losing it. Diva's in menopause are her …