Career
He is also known for DIY video podcasts for MAKE, and for the History Hacker pilot on the History Channel. He is one of the founders of the Brooklyn-based hacker space New York City Resistor. Besides being a television host and Video Podcast producer, he"s created new media for Etsy.com, hosted Make: Magazine"s Weekend Projects podcast, and has been a schoolteacher, artist, and puppeteer.
He was the artist-in-residence of art group monochrom at Museumsquartier Vienna in 2007.
Pettis was featured prominently in the documentary film Print the Legend. Pettis was raised in Ithaca, New New York
At the age of 13 he moved to the Seattle area, where he later graduated from Bellevue High School. Pettis is a 1995 graduate of The Evergreen State College, where he studied psychology, mythology and performing arts
After college, Pettis worked as floor runner and camera assistant on feature films in Prague and as an assistant at Jim Henson"s Creature Shop in London.
He then attended Pacific Oaks College and graduated with a teaching certificate.