Flash Venom is a bleeding-edge multimedia consultation firm that specializes in assembling teams of California's top technical and artistic talent. The company dates back to 1996 when Nathan Smith and Gary Birch sat on the board of the Orange County Multimedia Association, then OCMMUG. Nathan was only 14. Before e-mail, Toy Story, and Adobe Flash, a little company called stat media began creating 3d effects and multimedia websites which had never before been seen. Together, they created the first “internet-enabled” CD-ROM, one of the first “business-card CDs” and a ground breaking world-first interactive music video for Prince. Nathan Smith has also appeared on NBC and the front page of the Orange County Register for his “interactive resume CD-ROM.” Together, they created websites and training CDs for Transamerica, Toshiba, and Mercury-Oldmobile, just to name a few. Nathan Smith moved on to create Flash Venom, a bleeding-edge multimedia consulting firm with reach into a pool of Southern California’s most talented artists. He has taught at the Laguna College of Art and Design, UCI Extension, Cal-poly Pomona, and currently acts as the Art Director of a top 4% website, myhero.com, which receives over 2.5 million hits a month. Our