- Rick Kosick
Rick Kosick is a photographer and crew member and supporting cast member of the "Jackass TV series" and the two "" movies.
Early career
Kosick started out as a freelance photographer for "Poweredge" and "Slap" skateboarding magazines and built up fame as a skateboard photographer. Kosick's photography also caught the attention of the rock band
The Deftones who contracted Kosick to shoot the cover art to their Gold-selling album "Around the Fur ", voted by Revolver Magazine as one of the greatest metal covers ever.Bennet, J."Revolver". September 2007. Pg. 122] Kosick was later approached by the editor of "Big Brother" to become a photographer and later head photo editor. Kosick's work at Big Brother inspired later skate photographers, such as Jerome Loughran. [ [http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/skate/features/3269 Jerome Loughran's Triple Shot - Features - Skate Zine - Caught in the Crossfire ] ] Kosick also had involvement in the creation of the "Big Brother" video series.Jackass and follow-on projects
Following the end of "Big Brother" Kosick worked as a freelance photographer until former "Big Brother" editor
Jeff Tremaine approached him for a role in Tremaine's upcoming TV series "Jackass". Kosick is often filmed being picked on by other "Jackass" crew members under the auspices of a legitimate stunt, usually only a ruse set up to tease Kosick.www.rickkosick.com]Current projects
Kosick currently works as a freelance photographer and cameraman. He worked on "
Wildboyz " onMTV andMTV2 and currently works on "Rob and Big " on the same channels. Kosick produced Manny Puig's straight-to-dvd title, "Ultimate Predator".Kosick recently directed an electronic presskit video for the Los Angeles Band HDR and other music videos for Roger Alan Wade, Smutt peddlers, Lil Wyte with Three Six Mafia, House Of Broken Promises and Scream For Me.
Rick is currently a promenent member of the staff at Jackassworld.com as a content producer and has his own online show 'jackass world live' (formerly known as the 4.20 show with rick kosick) which also commonly features other staff members including Sean Cliver and Greg Wolf amongst others. The show is supposed to go live on Wednesdays at 4.20pm PST, but is known for regularly being late (picking up the name 4.20ish show from community members) and, amongst other reasons, was why the show was renamed.
References
External links
*imdb name|id=1030622|name=Rick Kosick
* [http://www.rickkosick.com/ Official website of Rick Kosick]
* [http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=17433293 Rick Kosick's Myspace]
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