Tony Hawk holding his daughter Kadence,
next to his wife Lhotse Merriam at the 2009
Stand Up For Skateparks benefit event, in Beverly Hills, CA.
(Photo by Luiz Calado ©2009)
The Tony Hawk Foundation (THF, for short) fundraising event Stand Up for Skateparks went down this past Sunday, October 11.
I was definitely looking forward to cover it for the first time. After seeing pictures of Tony doing doubles and triples on the ramp with other skaters in previous years, and knowing that Bucky Lasek, Pierre Luc Gagnon, Andy Macdonald and Kevin Staab were going be there as well, I was super pumped to shoot some mind-blowing skateboarding action.
Boy, I was in for a surprise.
As soon as I got to political and investment tycoon Ron Burkle’s Green Acres Estate in Beverly Hills, I was promptly advised by the staff that I would have no access whatsoever to the actual event. Even having been issued a proper press credential in the weeks prior, all I was allowed to do was to photograph arriving guests on the red carpet.
I was absolutely disheartened...
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