how tshirts are born (or ’more old tour footage’)

an informative and entirely factual look at the inner workings of the 'no more kings' merchandise sweat-shop.

please to enjoy:

NMK podcast 09 - how tshirts are born from pete mitchell on Vimeo.

-pete

two things i found online or "why i love the internet’

okay, one of my favorite indie animators is a guy named pat smith. i was reading his blog today and i found links to two other great sites.

when i first learned flash, i wanted to make all these cool experimental interactive animated playthings. i never really followed through, because i am a dorkface, but thank goodness this guy did: http://www.vectorpark.com/head/

(that site ate up most of my evening!)

aaand, last time i visited my parents, my dad told me he thought that i was too critical on my blog movie reviews. of course, defensive, i said, 'no i'm not! it's important to be critical of things!' or something equally whiny. anyway, i've been thinking about that a lot lately. in fact, i haven't posted any movie reviews since.

so when i found this: http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-character-arcs-in-raiders-makes.html i smiled. i was reminded at how important it is to critically analyse art and storytelling. (that post is a long read, but worth the investment)

i hope you all are having a happy monday. i might go see 'burn after reading' tonight. maybe i'll tell you how i liked it =)



-pete

old nmk live footage

hello,
i was cleaning out my hardrive yesterday and i found some old nmk tour footage.
i'll post some more as i get a chance to comb through it.

nmk podcast 08 from pete mitchell on Vimeo.

-pete

art for sale?

hello again,
i'm going to be working with topher at the label over the next week or so to try and get some of my paintings online in the astonish store. i'm really excited to see how that goes.

in the meantime, i set up a little shop at etsy.com to sell smaller stuff: block prints and small works on paper. if you get a chance, i'd love it if you dropped by and checked it out.


http://www.daspetey.etsy.com

thanks!

-pete

thank you linton!

we just got back from playing the linton music festival in indiana. woohoo, it was awesome!
we played there last year and had such a blast. we couldn't wait to play it again this year.
we got a chance to unveil two new songs, from our new album (coming out early next year).

we met some absolutely fantastic fans. i got a supercool gift from karl and meg:



thanks guys! and thanks all of linton. we're already excited about LMF 09.
-pete

woody harellson

go here. now.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ib06feef71f62cc174740970bb2b5e90d

-pete

block printing zombies

hello friends.
i went to the art store the other day, which is becoming an addiction for me lately. i can't really afford to be spending any money right now, and what do i do? i go to the art store twice a week. yikes
anyway, i bought some linoleum blocks and some carving tools and started making block prints! i haven't done that since high school. it's so fun! i love being able to take a single image and make multiple iterations of it, altering each slightly.





i started printing on anything i could find:






i think i'm going to start selling these so i can afford to buy more linoleum blocks!
this may or may not be a severe obsession.

-pete

golfday

hello,
one of my roommates, jacob, and i invented a new day: golfday
which involved us going to a driving range to hit golf balls, playing wii golf, watching a golf movie, and finishing the night with a blazing round of minigolf.



-pete

dead anyway

hello,
i started working on a couple of new projects recently. one of them is an animated short film, about zombies (of course), tentatively titled 'dead anyway'. one night, when i couldn't fall asleep for a few hours, i played out the whole story in my mind. when i woke up the next day, i tried to write down as much of it as i could remember.

then about a week ago, i went to my cousin's wedding. i bought myself the crappiest flights ever, so i had a LOT of time sitting in the airport. in an uncharacteristic spurt of productivity, i used that time to map out all the steps needed to finish the animation. i even made little deadlines for myself for each phase, marking them in iCal.

so, while i was hanging out at the house today, i glanced at my calendar and noticed, according to my plan, storyboards were due today. yikes! i hadn't even started them! sooo i ran to 'fido', a little cafe here in nashville, and drew storyboards for 2 and a half hours.

the short will probably be around 5 or 6 minutes long, which came to 166 separate storyboard panels. very rough drawings of course. some of the major moments i might redraw, cleaner. i just spent the rest of my night importing the drawings into flash and arranging them in order.

next, i must make an animatic, which is sort of a roughly animated storyboard. my iCal tells me that's due friday. =)

here are two pages of my rough storyboards:





goodnight all!
-pete

amoebas on threadless

hello my little multi-celled organisms,
i just finished a teeshirt design, and i submitted it to 'threadless.com'.



if you get a chance, it would be a huge help to me if yall voted for it over at threadless.com

thanks!
-pete