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It’s hard to believe once upon a time, Macromedia Flash<\/em> (or what is now known as Adobe Flash<\/em>) held promise of changing the face of the internet forever. While it did succeed to some extent in this ambitious endeavor, let’s face it, Flash<\/em> has seen better days. On some level, I am sad to see its slow decline (despite its stubborn persistence in the online mini-games arena), in part because it was a tool primarily\u00a0geared towards artists and designers, while also offering the necessary foundation for programmers. My Flash<\/em>\u00a0journey began as explorations in animated sketches, like the one I designed for my alma mater and the\u00a0(CCM)2 studios’ splash page (archived version can be accessed\u00a0here<\/a>), or the second iteration of my own homepage from 2000 whose Flash<\/em>-based\u00a0menu can be accessed here<\/a>\u00a0as a bit of a nostalgic memento, if you like, with all its misspellings and inadequacies.<\/p>\n Over the years, I used Flash<\/em> for various other purposes, some of which involved paid jobs, as is the case with Synaesthesia<\/a><\/em> (2003), an early self-evolving soundtrack concept, commissioned by the now defunct Gaslight Studios Inc. This journey eventually\u00a0led to\u00a0a 3-minute audio-visual piece I composed in 2003, whose visuals were realized entirely in\u00a0Flash<\/em>.<\/p>\n Out of Doors Suite Part 2 <\/em>is an apparently random title with the [not so] subliminal references to Bela Bartok’s legacy, in a desperate authors attempt to [quite blatantly] cash in on such an association, as well as in part due to utter sleep deprivation which had eventually resulted in a flu with benefits, Part 2 therefore stands as an unauthorized [and arguably abysmally botched] sequel [as usually all commercial sequels and prequels are] to its forerunner. Dubiously, through interference of the [sparse] gray matter of its deranged parent [no, not Bartok, the other guy] the idea inexplicably grew into a buoyant play on words and stereotypes of our times.<\/p>\n