Living Proof Magazine - "Can't Kill Yourself"

Living Proof has released a book of previously unpublished photographs from the making of CKY; documenting the early days of what would eventually become Jackass.

CKY was a crew of skateboarders and artists centered around Bam Margera. Their videos introduced an unprecedented style of reckless chaos as entertainment. This format became the foundation for what later became Jackass; significantly influencing the tone of early 2000s media and skateboarding with early tapes depicting the crew getting into fights with strangers, destroying property, skating and getting injured for fun.

When MTV commissioned Jackass in 2000, the resulting program functioned as a synthesis of the CKY crew from Pennsylvania, and the Big Brother staff from the West Coast. Although Jackass rose in popularity, the original CKY videos remained the foundation from which the entire movement grew.

This project was made possible through the work of Joe Frantz, whose documentation of the crew helped shape the spirit that defined CKY from the beginning.