A little video I made for the Chalk Is Free 2011 Pool T-shirt Designs. I created it in Adobe After Effects, a really great program for compositing graphics. You may have heard of Adobes other popular programs Photoshop and Illustrator (which were used to create the t-shirt designs).

I used the youtube audio swap feature to add in the soundtrack to avoid and copyright issues. I would have liked to use the Foo Fighters song “Walk”.

Pool has always been a passion of mine and now I can combine it with another love mine, graphic design.  I don’t see selling pool t-shirts as a way of making it rich, but just a way to provide a different view on billiard t-shirts. There are a lot of great 8 ball pool t-shirts out there i hope you like mine.

And I refused to be a fool dancing on the strings held by all of those big shots. That’s my life, I don’t apologize for that. But I always thought that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the strings. – Don Vito Corleone

The Puppet shirt is inspired by the first two Godfather Movies.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him. – Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee was the consummate Warrior-Poet. He trained both his mind and body to the highest levels!  Lee is the inspiration for this Pool-T-shirt, as all pool players should look to his teachings as a way to improve their game.

He believed that one should master all forms of martial arts, as many of the best pool players are masters of more than one type of pool/billiards game.

Bruce Lee believed that the mind must be open and formless. It must adapt to all situations. Another great lesson for pool players.