The Shirt

by eric

This is the story of how the airbrushed t-shirt that Brett wore during our show last night came to be.

It all started with a Michael Pizza rehearsal over a year ago. Brett and I played a scene in which we were two airbrush artists who owned a small store on a boardwalk and were contemplating getting out of airbrushing altogether.

In the scene my character tried to convince Brett's character to not give up our dream. In order to show my appreciation for him my character showed him the airbrush shirt that I made him, "It's us riding dolphins that are jumping over a rainbow and it says 'wishes'."

I knew that day that I had to create that shirt and vowed to get it for Brett as a gift. As luck would have it I was in a Evanston mall months later that had an airbrush art stand.

I approached the "artist" and told him my idea. He sketched it out and then said, "So the guy and girl are riding on the dolphins?" I told him yes, but it actually would be a guy and a guy riding the dolphins. There was a brief silence met with a "Oh, hey that's cool man, whatever." I proceeded to tell him a little of the story of why I was making the shirt and that seemed to put him at ease.

So about an hour later there it was, the first ever made up prop from an improv scene brought to life.

Brett said he would wear it to a show but had yet to do follow through so I knew that my birthday would be the best excuse to introduce the shirt to the world. So world, you're welcome.