Ze Frank
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Hosea Jan "Ze" Frank (* 31 March 1972 ) is an American Online - performance artist , composer , humorist and public speaker from Los Angeles ( California ).
Life
Ze Frank is the son of German-American parents and grew up in a suburb of Albany . He graduated from Brown University with a degree in Neuroscience in 1995 . Information from Frank's Show the show with zefrank indicates that he went to a Montessori education school and has a sister who is a painter.
During his early days at Brown University, Frank played guitar and sang in a funk / jam band called Dowdy Smack , including with Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla. Frank was in the band until it split up in 1998.
Frank married longtime girlfriend Jody Brandt in 2003. They met at Brown University and were together for five years before they got married. Jody is a state-approved psychologist . She also married Frank's bandmate Tad Kinchla in 2009.
Career
In 2001, Frank created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Soon afterwards, the invitation generated millions of page views and over 100 gigabytes of daily Internet traffic to Frank's website through forwarding. The site grew, adding interactive group projects, short films, animations, video games.
Frank won the Best Personal Website award at the 2002 Webby Awards and in 2005 was named Time Magazine's “50 Coolest Websites” list . Frank made his first appearance at the 2003 Gel Conference and spoke at the TED Conference in 2004 and 2005 .
Frank worked as an adjunct professor at Tisch School of the Arts / New York University , Parsons The New School for Design and the State University of New York at Purchase .
Regarding his work in the digital space and the potential of new platforms like Facebook , YouTube and Twitter , Frank said:
“For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. "
“For me, experimentation has nothing to do with technology. In an ever-changing technological landscape where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that each of these areas can use a dose of humanity and art and culture ”
| the show with ze frank | |
|---|---|
| Moderator | Ze Frank |
| Url | www.zefrank.com/theshow |
| Publication rhythm | Weekdays |
| Beginning | March 17, 2006 |
| The End | March 17, 2007 |
| genre | Comedy, Current Events |
the show
On March 17, 2006, Frank started the daily video program the show with zefrank . The format of the program combined commentary on media and current events with contributions and activity from viewers. Each of the three to five minute episodes combined commentary on world events in the style of The Daily Show with songs, observations, and the occasional game or challenge viewers could participate in. Thousands of photos, videos and music files were contributed by the audience, including 1,000 images over a period of 20 hours. The show appeared every weekday until the last episode on March 17, 2007, exactly one year after it began. As a result of the show's success, Frank was signed to the United Talent Agency of Beverly Hills, California . The style of the show influenced many popular video bloggers, including Philip DeFranco , and John Green
| a show with ze frank | |
|---|---|
| Moderator | Ze Frank |
| Url | ashow.zefrank.com/ |
| Publication rhythm | three times per week |
| Beginning | April 9, 2012 |
| genre | Comedy, Current Events |
a show
On February 27, 2012, Ze Frank announced a show that would appear three times a week and would be "same same but different" as The Show would be. Similar to his other projects, A Show is a collaboration between Frank and the audience. To finance Frank took advantage of Kickstarter and took 146,752 US dollars , where the ultimate goal of the fundraising was only $ 50,000. A Show with Ze Frank made his debut on April 9, 2012, a series called "An Invocation for Beginnings" ( A call for the beginnings ).
Web links
- Ze Frank's website
- zefrank.com wiki
- Ze Frank at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Warren St. John interviewed Ze Frank (June 18, 2006) for The New York Times (video)
- Mark Hurst: Interview: Ze Frank, performance artist , from December 4, 2002
- Heather Green, Ze Frank, YouTube, and Making Money , BusinessWeek , July 28, 2006
- TED Talks: Ze Frank's nerdcore comedy on TED (2004)
- Zefrank's posts at Buzzfeed.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Warren St. John: And You're So Funny? Write My Script. The New York Times , June 18, 2006, accessed June 17, 2012 .
- ^ Ze Frank: "Unity". In: The Show With Ze Frank. Ze Frank, accessed June 12, 2012 .
- ↑ Frank's birthday invitation: How to dance properly , accessed June 17, 2012
- ↑ Anna Marie Kukec: Web designer's email invite forwarded millions of times , In Daily Herald , April 23, 2001
- ↑ Marryanne Murray Buechner: 50 Coolest Websites of 2005. Time , June 20, 2005 accessed 17 June 2012 Google .
- ^ Scott Kirsner: Fans, Friends & Followers: Building an Audience and a Creative Career in the Digital Age . CinemaTech Books, Boston 2009, ISBN 1-4421-0074-5 , pp. 51 .
- ↑ Spencer Morgan: "First Take Ze Hollywood" , New York Observer , January 21, 2007 Retrieved on June 17, 2012
- ↑ John Biggs: Is Philip DeFranco The Heir To The ZeFrank Crown? Techcrunch, October 6, 2007, accessed June 17, 2012 .
- ↑ John Green: On cuties and cooties ( Memento of 12 March 2012 at the Internet Archive ), dated 28 February 2012 Retrieved on June 17, 2012
- ↑ Kickstarter: A Show with Ze Frank , accessed June 17, 2012
- ^ Ze Frank: An Invocation for Beginnings , April 9, 2012, accessed June 17, 2012
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Frank, Ze |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frank, Hosea Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American online performance artist, composer, humorist, and public speaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1972 |