Firstly, apologies for the increasingly tenuous and odd Pech-app Cake-cha blog titles. If it's any consolation, I'm more disappointed in them as an author than you as a suffering reader will ever be.

Now, onto the topic at hand: the latest round of Pecha Kucha presentations held over cake, tea and the like brought with them a combination of art, film and technology. For those of who who haven't immediately popped out to the bakery, here's a rundown of what went on at Cogapp's Pecha Kucha 3.0: In his own unique style, Colin kicked off proceedings with his long anticipated 'Sketcha Kucha' (again, really sorry about the dire puns). Having, over the last two weeks, asked us all at varying points to do quick self portraits, Colin displayed these to us with a few musings about his first love: pencils. Re-igniting in us a passion for the importance of designing with our hands rather than mice, Colin displayed the incredible results achieved by using age-old tools over modern techo-easels.

Following Colin was Niki with her 6 minute 40 second delight entitled 'Hitchcock and Me'. During her studies in Newcastle Niki earned her keep by working at the Tyneside Cinema, where she became engrossed by the work of Alfred Hitchcock. She shared with us her fascination and introduced us to a few insights into Hitchcock's mind and work; aside from delving into the depths of his psyche to discover the root of his passion for crime thrillers and explaining to us the reason for his infamous cameos, she also elaborated on his extensive legacy and the many pastiches and homages that have been paid to him over the years.

Sam came next with his presentation, 'I'll wave you', all about Google's new Wave technology. With it's nomenclature rooted in sci-fi, Google's new creation is being created with the principles that real-time is useful, rich media is powerful, open-sourcing is invaluable and that ambitious beginnings will create potent results. Still in its alpha phase, Wave is looking to be that rarest of beasts: a subtle and yet at the same time radical evolution in online communication. We're waiting eagerly to see how it pans out.

Rachael gave the penultimate presentation of the day, but I'm afraid that as it was closely related to a project we're working on, I'll have to let its topic remain a mystery for now. All I can tell you is that it was met with equal amounts of delight, intrigue, awe and cake-scoffing. Last, but by no means least, came Eleanor with her talk, 'Hands (& other things)'. To draw things to a close, Eleanor spoke of her love of getting hands-on with projects and having a tactile involvement with them. She told us about recent designers who are rediscovering their love of physical engagement with their work. By getting up close and personal with projects, Eleanor revealed how the visible human involvement really adds to the final product rather than detracts from it, and how sometimes a day of screen printing can be just as fun as five minutes on Photoshop.

So, just as we ended the presentations there, so I'll end the blog post here, and leave you looking forward to the summary of our next Pecha Kucha sessions (and dreading the inevitable dire blog title, 'Pecha Kucha Episode 4: A New Cake' anyone?)