from CHOKE newsletter 1.1, May 2007
Interview by Nick Sapiro aka Freitas
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Freitas and I have been seeing this bikerider on an old smokey RD400 wearing a life size horse helmet for the past month or so, needing an explanation of sorts we set out to find this guy or animal or whatever it was causing us not to sleep at night. We followed him down some dark alley which supposedly houses his cave? Anyway, we tranquilized him, stuffed him into a laundry sac and brought him back to choke headquarters for questioning.
Freitas: We want answers man, start talking.
Beau: OK, geeze you guys are nuts. My name is Beau Buck I'm from Santa Barbara and I turn normal motorcycle helmets into realistic animal heads.
What?
I was driving in the desert one time, I was on a road trip through the desert one time, and I saw this Harley guy pass by with his leathers flapping in the wind and I thought 'well if you gotta wear a helmet why can't it transform you into an animal', something where you can't see the person anymore. I pictured a family being on a road trip and a little kid in the back seat staring out the window and his parents chatting up front and to see something ride past you, you don't know what to make of it because you haven't seen anything like that and its mythological, but its real.
So what do the cops think?
Most of the time when it happens, the cop will roll up and say 'what in the hell are you guys doing?', and we'll say 'they're motorycle helmets'. They don't know what to make of it and say 'well what if you fall and get hurt', I say 'well I'll fall and get hurt like everybody else but I'll have a bit more padding for the impact'. Then they're confused and tell us to split, they are amazed at what they are looking at and have never seen it before and therefore don't know it's wrong, I don't think there is a citation that exists for such an offense.
Do you have any special outfits that go with the helmets?
Yeah, for the crow and old black leather jacket and shredded heans, gutter. The buffalo is Americana so he is blue jeans and a white wife beater, that's funny though cuz I'm pretty skinny and the head is gigantic on me. But the bull would have to be on a massive in all leather, I mean that bull is a bull fighting bull, a matador with embroidered roses going down his pants.
I was on your site and saw some clips of a film.
There's a super eight place in Burbank called Pro8, one of the last places that develops that kind of film and they were having a contest where you get a cartridge that's about three minutes lond and make a movie with no outside editing all start and stop, in-camera edits. So we went to Lancaster in the high high desert and filmed a story of the buffalo and Indian Princess as a Bonnie and Clyde duo chasing this car shootin' arrows at it and finally they pull it over and the buffalo dude reaches into the back seat and pulls out this little baby who's wearing a baby buffalo helmet, but with a feather head-dress..
-At this point during the interview a 12V battery that was on a charger explodes and sends battery acid spraying everywhere. The smell is tremendous so we evacuate to the backyard for the final questions.
Wow, sorry about that Beau, are you alright?
Yeah.
So what happened next?
Well it was really cold there, like 30 degrees and as me and her were in a car warming up my friends were doing this shot where the camera guy is strapped in the back of my truck standing up so he could hold his camera and were on the wrong side of the road shooting the other car that we blocked all the windows out with cardboard and the CHP rolls up and the guy was like 'look, you guys are breaking so many laws right now, filming without a permit, standing up int the back of a moving vehicle, you're driving on the wrong side of the road, you've got a car with all the windows blocked out and nobody is wearing seatbelts, if I wrote you a ticket it would be in the 7000 to 8000 dollar range'. He let us go and we filmed the rest on some dirt roads there.
Was there a sex scene with the Princess?
No because it was only three minutes long.
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Interview by Nick Sapiro aka Freitas
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Freitas and I have been seeing this bikerider on an old smokey RD400 wearing a life size horse helmet for the past month or so, needing an explanation of sorts we set out to find this guy or animal or whatever it was causing us not to sleep at night. We followed him down some dark alley which supposedly houses his cave? Anyway, we tranquilized him, stuffed him into a laundry sac and brought him back to choke headquarters for questioning.
Freitas: We want answers man, start talking.
Beau: OK, geeze you guys are nuts. My name is Beau Buck I'm from Santa Barbara and I turn normal motorcycle helmets into realistic animal heads.
What?
I was driving in the desert one time, I was on a road trip through the desert one time, and I saw this Harley guy pass by with his leathers flapping in the wind and I thought 'well if you gotta wear a helmet why can't it transform you into an animal', something where you can't see the person anymore. I pictured a family being on a road trip and a little kid in the back seat staring out the window and his parents chatting up front and to see something ride past you, you don't know what to make of it because you haven't seen anything like that and its mythological, but its real.
So what do the cops think?
Most of the time when it happens, the cop will roll up and say 'what in the hell are you guys doing?', and we'll say 'they're motorycle helmets'. They don't know what to make of it and say 'well what if you fall and get hurt', I say 'well I'll fall and get hurt like everybody else but I'll have a bit more padding for the impact'. Then they're confused and tell us to split, they are amazed at what they are looking at and have never seen it before and therefore don't know it's wrong, I don't think there is a citation that exists for such an offense.
Do you have any special outfits that go with the helmets?
Yeah, for the crow and old black leather jacket and shredded heans, gutter. The buffalo is Americana so he is blue jeans and a white wife beater, that's funny though cuz I'm pretty skinny and the head is gigantic on me. But the bull would have to be on a massive in all leather, I mean that bull is a bull fighting bull, a matador with embroidered roses going down his pants.
I was on your site and saw some clips of a film.
There's a super eight place in Burbank called Pro8, one of the last places that develops that kind of film and they were having a contest where you get a cartridge that's about three minutes lond and make a movie with no outside editing all start and stop, in-camera edits. So we went to Lancaster in the high high desert and filmed a story of the buffalo and Indian Princess as a Bonnie and Clyde duo chasing this car shootin' arrows at it and finally they pull it over and the buffalo dude reaches into the back seat and pulls out this little baby who's wearing a baby buffalo helmet, but with a feather head-dress..
-At this point during the interview a 12V battery that was on a charger explodes and sends battery acid spraying everywhere. The smell is tremendous so we evacuate to the backyard for the final questions.
Wow, sorry about that Beau, are you alright?
Yeah.
So what happened next?
Well it was really cold there, like 30 degrees and as me and her were in a car warming up my friends were doing this shot where the camera guy is strapped in the back of my truck standing up so he could hold his camera and were on the wrong side of the road shooting the other car that we blocked all the windows out with cardboard and the CHP rolls up and the guy was like 'look, you guys are breaking so many laws right now, filming without a permit, standing up int the back of a moving vehicle, you're driving on the wrong side of the road, you've got a car with all the windows blocked out and nobody is wearing seatbelts, if I wrote you a ticket it would be in the 7000 to 8000 dollar range'. He let us go and we filmed the rest on some dirt roads there.
Was there a sex scene with the Princess?
No because it was only three minutes long.
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