Ze Frank
Hosea Jan " Ze " Frank ( born March 31, 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 completed his studies in 1995 of neuroscience at Brown University from. Information from Frank's show the show with zefrank indicate that he was at a montessori educational school and a sister, the painter is.
During his early days at Brown University Frank played guitar and sang in a funk / jam band called Dowdy Smack, among other things, with the Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla. Frank was in the band until the dissolution in 1998.
Frank married his longtime girlfriend Jody Brandt in 2003. They met at Brown University to know and were together for five years before they married. Jody is a nationally recognized psychologist. They also took the 2009 wedding of Frank's band mate Tad Kinchla ago.
Career
2001 Frank created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Redirects the invitation soon generated millions of page views and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to the website of Frank. The site grew, with interactive group projects, short films, animations, video games were added.
At the Webby Awards 2002 Frank won the award for the " Best Personal Website" and he was listed " 50 Coolest Websites" in Time Magazine in the list of 2005. Frank made his first appearance at the Gel conference in 2003, and said 2004 and 2005 at the TED Conference.
Frank worked as an associate professor at the 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 domain and the potential of new platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Frank said:
" For me, experimentation is not about the technology. Add to ever -changing technological landscape, where today 's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key Seems to be did any one of thesis spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. "
"For me, experimentation has nothing to do with the technology. In one, ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not the platforms of the future, the key seems to be that each of these areas could use a dose of humanity and art and culture "
The show
On 17 March 2006 Frank launched the daily video program the show with zefrank. The format of the program combined comments on media and current events with contributions and activities of viewers. Each, of three to five minutes long, episodes combined comments on world events in the style of The Daily Show with songs, observations, and occasional games or challenges in which the audience could participate. Thousands of photos, videos and music files were contributed by the spectators, including 1,000 images over a period of 20 hours. The show appeared each day up to the last episode on 17 March 2007, exactly one year after the start. As a result of the success of the show Frank was taken from the United Talent Agency of Beverly Hills, California under contract. The style of the show influenced many popular video bloggers, including Philip DeFranco, and John Green
A show
On 27 February 2012 Ze Frank announced a show that would appear three times a week, " same same but different " ( same same but different), as The show would be. Similar to his other projects is a collaboration between A show this Frank and the audience. To finance took Frank Kickstarter and took a 146 752 U.S. dollars, with the ultimate goal of fundraising only $ 50,000 were. A Show with Ze Frank debuted on April 9, 2012 with episode called "An Invocation for Beginnings" ( A call for the beginnings ).