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Ze Frank
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podcast, comedy, funny, ze, video
Ze Frank (born Hosea Frank on March 31, 1972, first name IPA: [‘ze], rhymes with “say”) is an online performance artist, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York.
Born to German-American parents, Ze was raised in Upstate New York and later graduated from Brown University in 1995 with a degree in neuroscience. Beginning at Brown and until their dissolution in 1998, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called dowdy smack.
In 2001, Ze created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Ze’s personal Web site zefrank.com. The site grew to include interactive group projects, short films, animations, and video games, many Flash-based, including children’s educational videos featuring handy tips such as “Don’t vacuum your face”.
Ze won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Website and was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites” in 2005. He was a featured speaker at the TED Conference in 2004 and 2005.
On March 17, 2006, Ze began a daily webcast-style program called “the show”, combining humor and news commentary in a fast-paced, tightly-edited format, and his group of “Sports Racers” make him arguably one of the foremost artists in the budding videoblog era. On June 9, 2006, Ze Frank aired a show created entirely by viewers using the Fabuloso Friday Wiki, letting everyone see just what happens when you allow users to generate collaborative web content.
Born to German-American parents, Ze was raised in Upstate New York and later graduated from Brown University in 1995 with a degree in neuroscience. Beginning at Brown and until their dissolution in 1998, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called dowdy smack.
In 2001, Ze created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Ze’s personal Web site zefrank.com. The site grew to include interactive group projects, short films, animations, and video games, many Flash-based, including children’s educational videos featuring handy tips such as “Don’t vacuum your face”.
Ze won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Website and was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites” in 2005. He was a featured speaker at the TED Conference in 2004 and 2005.
On March 17, 2006, Ze began a daily webcast-style program called “the show”, combining humor and news commentary in a fast-paced, tightly-edited format, and his group of “Sports Racers” make him arguably one of the foremost artists in the budding videoblog era. On June 9, 2006, Ze Frank aired a show created entirely by viewers using the Fabuloso Friday Wiki, letting everyone see just what happens when you allow users to generate collaborative web content.
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marieofcourse wrote:
lol@ fahad500, because all of the ze lovers i know in person ARE girls. including me! lol.
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fahad500 wrote:
i need to meet a girl that shares my love for zefrank
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CameronBurke wrote:
Ride the Fire Eagle Danger DAY! Why did he ever stop. :(
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mont1ff wrote:
God damnit ! Of course I discover this dude AFTER he retires..
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jasjustowned wrote:
Duckies!
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maciekalbin wrote:
Me too, I always stayed up late just to listen to his show.
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rockitscience wrote:
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Vudell wrote:
i miss ze
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welded wrote:
*21 gun salute*
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clearthought wrote:
no please ze please dont stop best 3 mins of my day haha
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il3 wrote:
Holy. Crap. The show is over tomorrow. I'll miss you, Ze.
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andreas23 wrote:
damn fucking iscrobbler why upload ze frank to this. now it will ruin my stats :S ze rules though!!!
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clearthought wrote:
ze rules.
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nDroae wrote:
He looks like Hannibal Lecter in this picture....
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axbesm_starr wrote:
Everyone remember to participate in the Myspace Adoption today <3
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fightingforlife wrote:
Tee hee. The display picture. Hehehehehe.
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simon_read wrote:
I need the wide-neck bottle. Ooh yeah
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XorpheusX wrote:
Oh, you meant the songs. Yes is the answer there.
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XorpheusX wrote:
He's got an RSS feed now, so you can subscribe to it as a podcast.
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slidefacekill wrote:
Where do you guys get his tracks? Do you just rip them from his vidblog?
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