Gun Arvidssen
Gun Arvidssen is an Australian writer and musician with polymathic tendencies extending to device manufacture, project management, cinematography and other fields. He is also a keen aerobatic pilot. Arvidssen is the author of Purgatory (2009, NAEPALM Industries publishing division) and the manufacturer of the cybernetically integrated lighting system (CILS).
Arvidssen acts as the supervisor and coordinator of NAEPALM Industries, a collective of like-minded professionals working in a variety of fields, GeneRally available on a quasi-mercenary basis in mission-critical situations. Arvidssen is also responsible for most of the web content of NAEPALM Industries and had a co-directorial role on the webzine GuitarHead.net alongside Stu Marshall. Other collaborative efforts with Marshall include his work on the Empires of Eden project, for which he was responsible for text and narration of 'Black Endings/Echoes of Oblivion'.
In 2004, aged 27, he was appointed editor of Guitarist Australia magazine, a role he relinquished after three issues. During his tenure, manufacturers such as Mesa Boogie considered his reviews (with photography by Ciri Arvidssen) sufficiently representative to include them on their websites. Similarly, various musicians whose work Arvidssen has reviewed have reprinted his reviews extensively.
Arvidssen is notorious for developing and manufacturing purpose-specific devices including echo-eliminating enclosures and CILS. Disillusioned with the contemporary disregard for honouring legal patents, he invoked a virtual patent on YouTube for the CILS device.
He sports a range of unusual tattoos, which led to him being interviewed for Show Us Ya Tatts, a documentary by Mair Underwood, PhD., along with a diverse range of tattooed individuals including a bishop and a man who is selling half his face as advertising space.