Aaron Young

Aaron Young

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text by BILL POWERS
photography by KAI REGAN

 

It looked like a movie set leftover from Thunderdome. A Thunderdome produced by Tom Ford and starring Aaron Young as Mad Max, that is. A dozen or so Japanese motorcycles spun out on a plywood rectangle the size of a small football field, scraping off its jet-black surface with their screeching back tires. The room filled with the fumes and echoes of revving motorcycle engines frustrated by locked brakes. The din at the height of the throttling sounded like 750ccs screaming out for their mommy. A cloud composed of motorcycle exhaust and smoke from burnt rubber wafted up toward the spectators in the mezzanine, some of whom wore gas masks. When the smoke cleared, a jumble of squiggles and circles — layers of fluorescent yellow, orange, pink and red paint — was…