As one can clearly see, Craig, your packaging list grossly understated the contents and their worth.  Links to a bunch of people who live in America's hat: buckshotscalabasas.tumblr.com

 www.bealekustoms.com

 shellsandleather.blogspot.com

b-a-r-n.blogspot.com

indianwars.bandcamp.com

www.theglobeandmail.com

This is my first mail from North America while in Japan.  Thanks Craig! 

http://buckshotscalabasas.tumblr.com/

Triple B

Barn, Beale and Buckshot sent us some goodies
http://www.bealekustoms.com/
http://b-a-r-n.blogspot.com/
http://buckshotscalabasas.tumblr.com/

Photographer Monique Sache

Great photo by Monique Sache. Many more amazing photos at her page:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaminmo Its of this artist I know named Craig Buckshot Pettman  as he rides his trip machine under the wide sky of Delta, British Columbia. also see The Barn

Buckshot  Pettman and Nick Resty July 2011

More Gifts from Craig

Pictures from Craig "Buckshot" Pettman.

These are personal.  I hadn't spoken to my father in two years.  This was outside my folks house in Granbury TX. Craig was their with film.  

A Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man

Canadian friend, Craig Buckshot Pettman and I are making a cross country venture from Alabama, to Oklahoma, Texas and back.  My purpose, to visit family.  His purpose, inconclusive.  He is taking portraits with his dad's 40 year old 35mm.  He is also dressing like me almost everyday making a regular gas stop in the rural Bible Belt south a whirlwind of stares and curiosities. He is also taking pictures of roadsigns as we pass places named in Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young songs. He is also reading Charles Bukowski out loud during interludes between him playing music that was made in the parts of the country we are passing through.  My gut hurts from laughing and swimming.  These pictures by Brandon.  Craig's work is here.

Billy Joe is in town. He makes ART.buckshot.carbonmade.com

Canada gave us

• Neil Young
• most of the Band
• Leonard Cohen
• the Guess Who
• This self portrait of Craig Pettman

This Canadian once gave me a place to stay when I rode to British Columbia.  One night during my stay I woke up walking down the street in Downtown Vancouver.  Sometimes I sleepwalk.  Some guy that looked like he has been imported from the early nineties Seattle, but with a fully Canadian personality (which seems to involve throwing caution to the wind while simultaneously being tremendously generous, unless they are a border crossing officer) shared his moonshine and grape gatorade with me.  According to him the public transit was free in Vancouver. Or at least I never once saw him pay for it,  but enough about his friends, Craig "Buckshot" Pettman makes  ART.  

Something to look at here:

http://buckshot.carbonmade.com/

Craig "Buckshot" Pettman also takes nice pictures.  The subject of these pictures being his car and his work.

The wildly talented Buckshot Pettman of Vancouver, B.C. has provided me with this convenient business card. The model is my photogenic riding companion Chauncey Ellis (who else) doing what stories are made of.  This should be handy when I am conducting business in Japan.  Most of the time I am working though.