TPM Episode 217: Bo Bridges, Photographer
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Bo Bridges' amazing photography career started with the "new-school" movement in skiing. Back then, Bo was just out of college, moved to Vail, and did whatever he could to break into the world of photography…. his drive, combined with his all-important hustle and business savvy created the path to being one of, if not the most, successful action sports photographer of our time. On the podcast we talk about photography, Seth Morrison, Tom Cruise, Dr. Dre, Freeze Magazine, and a whole lot more. Another do not miss episode.
Bo Bridges Show Notes:
3:00: Is he a gnarly mountain dude, shooting in the elements, and scary situations
7:00: Air Force Brat, Switzerland, and snowboarding
13:30: Finding photography, college rugby and aerial photography
20:30: Stanley: Get 30% off site wide with the code drinkfast
Glade Optics: Get 10% off with the code TPM10
10 Barrel Brewery: Buy their beers, they support action sports more than anyone
23:00: 1 month in Vail, losing the dream job at the Vail Daily and cutting his teeth processing film
34:00: Realizing how to make money in photography, athlete relationships, teaching skiers how to surf, and getting his images into mainstream media
40:15: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports
Elan skis: Making the best ski 75 years
41:30: Cary Hart Backflip at Gravity Games, moving to California, and Hard Rock Rehab shoots
49:00: Pussycat Dolls, Jimmy Iovine, the Easter of a lifetime, and Dr. Dre
54:00: Tom Cruise, and stunts
64:00: Weedmaps.com Weed question and ad
66:00: Inappropriate Questions with Freeze Magazine. You can buy their hoodies and T's at Freezemerch.com and proceeds go to The Shane McConkey Foundation and Alpine Initiatives.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sit back and relax, have some brandy, have a cigarette, you're listening to the fucking Powell movement. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome to the Powell movement. I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week it hit me. |
| 0:19.9 | Ski season is almost over. |
| 0:22.3 | For me, there will be about a month left and then it's gone. |
| 0:26.1 | I mean, it's still there if I really want to get after it. |
| 0:29.6 | But I'm not really a guy who climbs uphill very often. |
| 0:32.8 | So most likely, I will be bored for a few weeks at home, |
| 0:36.1 | hopefully setting up my new Trager grill, which |
| 0:38.3 | should arrive any day now. And if you don't have a Trager grill and you listen to this podcast, |
| 0:43.2 | you are totally blowing it, as smoking meat is the only way to go in my house these days. And |
| 0:48.6 | a Trager is the best way to smoke meat this side of weed maps. And if I'm not smoking on my |
| 0:53.8 | Trigger, I just use it like a regular |
| 0:55.9 | grill and it works perfectly. But other than smoking meat and drinking 10 barrel during this |
| 1:01.1 | fourth wave that is to come, I'm going to be bored. Sure, I'll peloton. And I know that there are |
| 1:07.1 | plenty of people who are like, dude, you are so lame, get a road bike. But I have |
| 1:11.7 | plenty of reasons not to do that. My top three are, one, I don't like being hit by cars. Two, I burn |
| 1:18.8 | more calories on my Peloton bike because I never have to stop or slow down for anything. And three, |
| 1:24.5 | no one has to see me in my biker shorts when I'm on my peloton, so my self-esteem still |
| 1:29.0 | runs high, even though I'm doing something that's perceived is not that cool. There are so many more |
| 1:34.0 | reasons for me not to ride a road bike, but those are my top three. So what am I going to do? That's the |
| 1:40.3 | question. And the answer is complicated. My family is still being very cautious about |
| 1:45.5 | this disease until we get vaccinated. We are laying low and doing our thing. But we also know |
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