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I come from a background in photography and the art's. I have done voice-over work, movie part's and even filmed a few movies. Also a tv host, on air host, stunt extra.

The photography I do and have produced is quite varied from applique to sublimation to platinum and many other forms. I have made cameras for shows. I have also participated in almost 50 group shows and self produced 4 solo shows. I produced and curated 6 group shows. I also worked and studied with some masters in an assistant capacity as well as working with other renowned professionals in the field.

Snowboarder:
I am a CASI Level II certified Snowboard Instructor who has been living and working in Whistler for 25 years. I was the instructor of the year for the 01/02 season!

Move over Piero, it’s Arne’s turn!

littlex11.jpgHello World!!!  Yup, finally happened, a t.v station wants to interview me in regards to the poofont!  Yup, I am sure they will do nothing but ask me shitty quesions over and over again!  Yippeee!  The show is called Urban Rush and it is on Shaw Cable.  The show will be aired on thursday at 5pm, 7pm, 9pm and 11pm.  The show will also air on Friday at 12 noon.  There really cool people so please check it out as this is part of my 15 minutes of fame!  You can also check it out on their youtube channel,     cheers and thanks for you patience!!!!!

I cant say road trip, but water trip, yup.

The other day good friend and Captain, Simon, took me out for a larf and some prawning in Howe Sound. Woo-wee! That was fantastic to be so close to the water in his inflatable boat, racing tug boats and barges.  What a day and the lunch at Hallket Bay was awesome! Thank you again Simon and Congratulations to you and Sophie on your little Francesca.The bad mill

Another great shot of our lovely hotel in Aberdeen, not Scotland.

p1180153.JPGYeah, this is another misconceiving photo of our not so wonderful hotel. sorry, looks can be deceiving.

Pooday, not Tuesday, hahaha.

dsc_3341.JPGHello again, I dont mean to be rude, I just cant help myself sometimes.  It seems in a world so wrote with rudeness that it is pretty easy to catch oneself being the same thing that they dont wanna represent, then, theres those that just dont give a shit.  Those are the ones that just make it difficult for everyone else.  Case in point, a recent very shitty hotel that we stayed in.  They obviously dont care about anything but the money, ohh well.  Because they dont care, I dont care and will tell you there name, it is the Trave-Lure, gotta hate the name right away.  They are in Aberdeen, Washington.  It was the second worst motel ever, eclipsing the first place winner with not only its dirty-ness, but the wild antics of its live in residences.  jeez. I have stayed in one hotel/motel worse but, it was not as wild as the Trave-lures people.  There you go.

Cool wall in a small town.

Aberdeen, WashingtonThe wife and little one had recently decided to take a little road trip down south, Washington and Oregon.  We had our first stop in Aberdeen, Washington were we walked around in the grey and ate some great mexi food for breakfast!!!! Yeah fish tacos for breakfast!! Neat town, wish I could have stayed longer to shoot, ohh wel, thats usually my story. enjoy more shots coming. cheers.  The shot was done with my great little Lens Baby, its soooo great.

The world is going crazy and people are buying a font made of Poo! thank you.

q1b.jpgHi everybody, its Mr.Brown, aka me, haha, just kidding.  But I like the alias.  I ask everyone that reads this blog to write our local mayor and council on what you think of pay parking for lots 4 and 5.  Everyone should do it. I did. Gonna write them a special letter with my poofont. serious. do it people.  You should buy it too, its a great font to have!

Another great show!

m5.jpgWell well, if the boy’s (BMP) didn’t pull off another great show!  Randy’s place was hoping.  Yan Zombie had a great set, playing to an anxious  crowd.  Once the crowds left it was dance time.  Everyone revelled  to the tunes in the awesome  space filled with great local art.  As usual there was great diversity within the art, Dan Poison’s new works had some surprising new/old twist, go Dan go!  Arin Sieber was there, with Jose in tow.  Great to see them both.  Overall it was a success with some great art and good times!  Thanks BMP! Look forward to the next one!  This photo is one of my entries, it is Mal and Pepe!  In case you didn’t now, the name of the show was called, La Violenta tormento de art.

Well, shit has finally hit the fan and I have decided to share my font with you all!

lucky7.jpgO.k, so I have put much thought in to the release of the poofont, so, now I have decided to share it with all my web friends!  If your not familiar with the poofont, well.  The site is www.poofont.com,  thats were the majority of info and history is.  I hoped to share it with you all before, alias, everything was not up to snuff.Poo history a la Arne.  About 20 years ago when going to the lew I noticed something odd.  When I looked in the white altar I saw a letter that was formed from my poo!  I was surprised as much as anyone.  So, I took a picture.  Well, it wasn’t long after that that I got another one.  20 years later I have compiled all the letters, numbers and most punctuation. Serious!  I then with the help of my designer Richard Meyers and my Vector-Man, Chris MacLeay have created the first ever human based, somewhat organic font.  The poofont!Just to reasure people that I am not obessed with scat and the outcome was brought on by suprise,  as I wasn’t expecting a letter when I first looked in the toilet that fateful day.  Being a photographer and a bit of a documentarist, well, I couldn’t not photograph my first fateful poo!  By the way, it was the M.Since that day I have created a book, stickers, t-shirts, with much more on the drawing board.  I hope to have these items available in the near future.  Right now only the font is available, for only $4.99, so, if you have any requests please contact me personally.Thank you so much for your understanding regarding this topic as it is a little weird.cheers and happy pooing.

Wow! Theres a big show brewing on the horizon! And yall best come see it!

Hi yall.  Big news in tiny town.  I am curating a show with 30 Whistler artists, of all types and giving them handmade paper to do what they will with it?.   The papers were either made with raw fibers done the traditional ways or post consumer material in a western style.  The show will be on March 12th at the Beaumont Studios in Vancouver.  On 5th just east of Cambie by one block, cool.  I will also facilitate a paper making workshop there the night before.  That is called S.O.T.  Every friday night they have an eclectic art appreciation night that is awesome, so stoked to work with Jude and Charmaine.  All the paper was made by me in my house by my little hands.  Hope you can join us either night, though the Saturday night show will be kickin!  Hopefully, Vinyl Ritchie will be spinnin a set, me too of course.paper1.jpg

More Polaroids!

                                                 ipo36.jpg                                                                          Please guess when this was taken?