Arno Drost

Infobox Celebrity
name = Arno Drost


caption = Arno Drost, photo by Manja Lindeman
birth_date = birth date and age|1981|04|22
birth_place = Huizen, Noord-Holland, NL
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = CEO, Brothers in art
website = [http://www.brothersinart.com]
footnotes =

Arno Drost, born on April 22, 1981, in Huizen, The Netherlands, is the CEO and co-founder of new media company Brothers in Art. He is also co-founder of the Digital Artist Community GFXartist.com that he started together with high school friends Martin Kool and Martijn van Zal in early 2000.

Life and career

Arno Drost entered the world of new media by attending the Utrecht School of the Arts, studying Digital Media Design from 1999 to 2003. In 2001 he has been nominated for a Multimedia Award for an interactive production called Crepusculo 6 at the film festival of Poitiers, France. cite news | url=http://www.rihl.org/d.php?o=260&f=24 | title=24 eme Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois | author=RIHL | date=2006-12-05 | accessdate=2006-12-05]

After graduation at the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2003, he successfully completed the Master course for Digital Media Design at the Open University in London, United Kingdom

In 2003, after his studies he started the company Brothers in art together with Martin Kool and Marvin Ronk. The company that already made name with Digital artist community GFXartist.com was asked in 2004 to create a community website for the American hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas. The websitecite news | url=http://www.blackeyedpeas.com/about/credits | title=Black Eyed Peas credits | author=blackeyedpeas.com | date=2006-12-05 | accessdate=2006-12-05] which launched simultaneous with the Black Eyed Peas album release of Monkey Business on June 7, 2005, welcomed over 100,000 fans during the first month.

In December 2005 Drost produced an online campaign for the Black Eyed Peas which allowed them to record videos on their mobile phone which were directly available on their website. The Black Eyed Peas were supposedly the first band in the world to use a 3G UMTS video connection to stay connected with their fans throughout their 2005 European tour.cite news | url=http://www.icemobile.com/news.html#peas | title=Black Eyed Peas broadcast online using 3G mobile videophones | author=Ralph Cohen | date=2006-12-05 | accessdate=2006-12-05] cite news | url=http://www.unitedformusic.com/new/15.html | title=BEP Videodiary during European tour | author=united4music| date=2006-12-05 | accessdate=2006-12-05]

in February 2008 Brothers in art and Arno Drost have been linked cite news | url=http://mashable.com/2008/02/20/hope-act-change/ | title=HopeActChange: will.i.am Strikes Again | author=Mark Hopkins | date=2008-02-20 | accessdate=2008-03-07] to the development of will.i.am's latest project Dipdive.com, his upcoming digital distribution project for artists wanting to skip the major label route. Dipdive was also the launch platform for the Barack Obama support video called "Yes We Can" by will.i.am

References

External links

* [http://www.brothersinart.com Brothers in art]
* [http://www.blackeyedpeas.com Black Eyed Peas Community]
* [http://www.gfxartist.com GFXartist Digital Art Community]
* [http://www.dipdive.com Dipdive]