Tony Hawk in NY Times...the marketing machine

**skategeezer** · 10-24-2006 08:58 AM

**Directive0** · 10-24-2006 09:00 AM

“We only hope that through designing this board we’ve helped the youth of today get closer to the intangible utopia that is modern business.”
love it.

**L13** · 10-26-2006 12:45 PM

since all of america including corporate america is ENDLESSLY SWINGING ON TONY HAWK'S NUT SACK.........
MAYBE IT'S TIME for Tony to step the fuct up to try to tell people about alternative sources of fuel instead of gas and stuff
or how iraq is a half dead abortion.
if hawk was HAD burnquist's intellect -traits of deep thinking and thinking"outside the box" he might be actually able to change something in the world for the better, instaed of just getting richer.
dude has so much power
fer instance...
if he demanded that
"JEEP" build him an eco friendly vehicle that could run on biodisel made right here in america from plants/corn/and yes HEMP they would build it because Tony Hawk said he wanted one and would endorse them.
how can dude really beleive in his heart of hearts that at this point in his career he still needs to endore poison like McDonalds and Soft Drinks filled with sugar ####?
i am not making this #### up
2/3 of american children are out of shape and "obese"
i know my views are radical and people will always want to drive huge suv tonka toys and eat bad food but when are we going to evolve from this facade of bullshit?
hawk is true blue and worked hard to get there
####
duane peters spit in his face and he knew he would get beat silly if he did anything about it
dude is a geek's geek on a skateboard
now show us something cooler
and i know about the stuff he did in india and how he really is a nice guy and not a creep
but damm
I wish he was a lickle more hip ya know>????????????????

**king edward** · 10-26-2006 01:13 PM

that bass terd is also releasing tony hawks "downhill jam" the guy on the cover is riding downhill on a popsicle stick with a really scared/I very well may have doodied myself look on his face. Not wearing slide gloves either. I can only hope somebody somewhere looses money on that game. Maybe L13, 2/3 of american kids are out of shape because they have so many simulated physical activity alternatives to occupy their time instead of the real thing.

**EBasil** · 10-26-2006 01:32 PM

I think this kind of thing is "the future". For example, there are rumors that the next issue of Naphte mag will have the beginning of an ad-series run cooperatively by Vespa and Skurf. Savvy people, these marketing wonks.

**Directive0** · 10-26-2006 01:51 PM

keep my fake company out of your sick fantasies you hoople head!

**ocian** · 10-26-2006 02:09 PM

Originally Posted by L13

since all of america including corporate america is ENDLESSLY SWINGING ON TONY HAWK'S NUT SACK.........
MAYBE IT'S TIME for Tony to step the fuct up to try to tell people about alternative sources of fuel instead of gas and stuff
or how iraq is a half dead abortion.
if hawk was HAD burnquist's intellect -traits of deep thinking and thinking"outside the box" he might be actually able to change something in the world for the better, instaed of just getting richer.
dude has so much power
fer instance...
if he demanded that
"JEEP" build him an eco friendly vehicle that could run on biodisel made right here in america from plants/corn/and yes HEMP they would build it because Tony Hawk said he wanted one and would endorse them.
how can dude really beleive in his heart of hearts that at this point in his career he still needs to endore poison like McDonalds and Soft Drinks filled with sugar ####?
i am not making this #### up
2/3 of american children are out of shape and "obese"
i know my views are radical and people will always want to drive huge suv tonka toys and eat bad food but when are we going to evolve from this facade of bullshit?
hawk is true blue and worked hard to get there
####
duane peters spit in his face and he knew he would get beat silly if he did anything about it
dude is a geek's geek on a skateboard
now show us something cooler
and i know about the stuff he did in india and how he really is a nice guy and not a creep
but damm
I wish he was a lickle more hip ya know>????????????????

I like my choice to eat a nice juicy mcdonalds burger. I'm not mainstream America but I happen to have the sense to workout 3 times a week. Don't let everyones fatass kid ruin it for me.

**leadfoot** · 10-30-2006 01:13 AM

When your name becomes a brand, you have to keep the machinery in motion. Its like banks and big business making sure they beat last years profits,year after year using new (and mostly more forceful) marketing tactics. Its a snowball effect. Big biz and marketing are screwing us.
This is why I love longboarding. Its the small companies that are doing the good stuff. We ride without giving a toss about what shirt or shoes go with our decks. We make sliding gloves out of gardening gloves if we want. And if somebody makes their own deck its way cool.
Longboarding will be mainstream, but I wont buy a Tony Hawk longboard. I'd prefer to make my own.

**doxastic** · 10-30-2006 01:25 AM

sk8geezer? Did rollingstone pay you to post these?

**skategeezer** · 10-30-2006 07:02 AM

good question...nope...the only people who pay me are the advertisers you see in CW
the fact is that I am presenting all this information for your enjoyment/entertainment.
I scan dozens of pages and pull out what I think would be of interest

the fact is that Tony Hawk is NOT Bob Burnquist...

I feel that everything should be on the table and discussed...it's a two way street in marketing/advertising...

and depending on who you trust, what you believe, etc. etc., there are always two perhaps even three sides to every story.

it's complicated...but better this get's discussed than not discussed.

**cfav** · 10-30-2006 12:44 PM

i think the guy has more offers than anyone can realise.there is strategy in as much as who he says yes to and who he turns down,but there isnt anyone seeking out these deals,come on,his sister is his chief marketing officer.