Rick Kosick

Rick Kosick
Kosick at the Jackass 3D London premiere on November 2, 2010
Born (1967-05-25) May 25, 1967 (age 57)
Occupation(s)Photographer, cinematographer
Known forJackass TV series and movies
Websiterickkosickfilms.com

Rick Kosick (born May 25, 1967)[1] is an American photographer and cinematographer. He is a crew member, and supporting cast member of the Jackass TV series and the four Jackass movies.

Early career

Kosick started out as a freelance photographer for Poweredge and Slap skateboarding magazines and built up fame as a skateboard photographer. His photography also caught the attention of the rock band Deftones who contracted Kosick to shoot the cover art to their album Around the Fur. This cover was voted by Revolver magazine as one of the greatest metal covers ever.[2] Kosick was later approached by the editor of Big Brother to become a photographer and later head photo editor. His work at Big Brother inspired other skate photographers. He also had involvement in the creation of the Big Brother video series. Kosick's likeness was featured on a skateboard for Birdhouse Skateboards on an Andrew Reynolds board.[3]

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. He usually didn't tolerate many of the pranks played against him.

Current projects

Kosick currently works as a freelance photographer and camera operator. He worked on Wildboyz, Nitro Circus and Rob and Big on MTV and MTV2. Kosick produced, directed, and edited 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, Smut Peddlers, Lil Wyte with Three Six Mafia, House of Broken Promises and Scream for Me.

Kosick was a prominent member of the staff at Jackassworld.com as a content producer, and had 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 was supposed to go live on Wednesdays at 4:20 pm PST, but was 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.

Kosick also worked behind the camera on Raab Himself's Bathroom Break podcast on YouTube.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1996 shit Creator
Direct-to-video
1998 Number Two: Big Brother Creator
Direct-to-video
1999 boob Himself Director of photography
Direct-to-video
2001 crap Himself Director
Cinematographer
Direct-to-video
2001 Don't Try This at Home: The Steve-O Video Additional editor
Direct-to-video
2002 Jackass: The Movie Himself Camera operator
2006 Ultimate Predator Director
Producer
Editor
Direct-to-video
2006 Jackass Number Two Himself Camera operator
2007 The Man Who Souled the World Himself Documentary
2007 Jackass 2.5 Himself Camera operator
2008 Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel Himself Co-producer
Camera operator
Direct-to-video
2009 Jackass: The Lost Tapes Himself Archive footage
Camera operator
Direct-to-video
2010 Jackass 3D Himself Writer
Camera operator
2011 Jackass 3.5 Himself Writer
Camera operator
2013 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Himself (outtakes) Camera operator
2014 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 Himself Camera operator
2017 Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine Himself Documentary
Additional camera
Associate producer
2020 Steve-O: Gnarly Himself Cameo
Camera operator
Direct-to-video
2021 Bad Trip Behind-the-scenes camera operator
2022 Jackass Forever Himself Writer
Camera operator
Associate producer
2022 Jackass 4.5 Himself Writer
Camera operator
Associate producer

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2000-2001 Jackass Himself (18 episodes) Camera operator
2002 Jackass Backyard BBQ Himself TV special
Camera operator
2003-2006 Wildboyz Himself (1 episode) Camera operator
2008 Jackassworld.com: 24 Hour Takeover Himself TV special
Camera operator
2009 Nitro Circus Himself (1 episode) Additional camera (3 episodes)
2011 A Tribute to Ryan Dunn Himself TV documentary
Director of photography
2012 Punk'd Camera operator (3 episodes)
2012-2013 Loiter Squad Camera operator (3 episodes)
Additional camera (2 episodes)
2013-2016 Ridiculousness Photographer (44 episodes)
2015 Swerved Camera operator (9 episodes)
2016-2018 King of the Road Camera operator (27 episodes)
2017 Party Legends Camera operator (1 episode)
2022 Jackass Shark Week 2.0[4] TV special
Camera operator[5]

Web series

Year Title Role Notes
2018-2019 Bathroom Break Podcast Himself (1 episode) Camera operator (29 episodes)
2019-2021 Jeremiah Wonders... Himself Podcast
2 episodes
2019-2021 The Nine Club Himself Podcast
2 episodes
2023 The Pontius Show Himself Podcast
1 episode

Music videos

Year Artist Track Role Notes
2001 Smut Peddlers "Let's Get Fucked Up" Director
2002 Andrew W.K. "We Want Fun" Camera operator
2003 Roger Alan Wade "If You're Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough" Director
2006 Wolfmother "Joker & the Thief" Himself Camera operator
2006 Chris Pontius "Karazy" Camera operator
2010 Weezer "Memories" Himself Camera operator

References

  1. ^ a b "Rick Kosick Zerocool trading card". Archived from the original on May 26, 2022.
  2. ^ Bennet, J.Revolver. September 2007. Pg. 122
  3. ^ The End; video by Birdhouse; 2003
  4. ^ Tremaine, Jeff (July 11, 2022). "Guess who's back on #SharkWeek!!! Dive into @SharkWeek on Sunday, July 24 at 9p ET on @Discovery and streaming on @discoveryplus. Jackass Shark Week 2.0". Instagram. Retrieved July 11, 2022.
  5. ^ Holmes, Zach; Imperati, Vinny (June 30, 2022). "Paying dues and bad tattoos - Ep 22 - What the Fudge Podcast W/ Street Bike Tommy and Rick Kosick". YouTube. Retrieved July 2, 2022.