Ze Frank ( ; born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972) is a high-performing artist, composer, humorist and public speaker in the United States based in Los Angeles. He is currently the head of research and development for BuzzFeed.
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Personal life
Frank was born to German-American parents (his father is Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank) and grew up in the suburbs of Albany, New York. He has a sister, who is a painter, as shown in the show .
He was educated at the Montessori school, known for his constructivist teaching methods, and graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1995. At university, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called Dowdy Smack, along with Blues Traveler Tad Kinchla bassist, until his dissolution in 1998. In 2003 he married his long. Jody Brandt whom he met at Brown University. Brandt is a licensed psychologist. At the end of 2008, Frank and his wife moved from Brooklyn Heights, NYC, to Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.
He is listed as the second author on a paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, which is featured briefly on episode 21 of the show on May 25, 2012 called My Pupils, explaining that his research on neuroscience of vision is motivated by an innocuous anisocorous condition.
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Careers
In 2001, Frank made an online birthday invitation and sent it to his nearest seventeen friends. Flown wild, the invitation immediately generated millions of clicks and more than 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Frank's personal Web site. The site evolves to include interactive group projects, short films, animations, and video games, many Flash-based, including children's educational videos featuring practical tips like "Do not suck your face".
Frank won the 2002 Webby Award for the Best Personal Website (Voice of the People) and in 2005, it was featured in "Time Magazine's Top 50" Time Magazine. Frank debuted on stage at the Gel conference in 2003. In 2006, his YouTube channel "zefrank1" was created, which hosted the popular series True Facts. He has spoken for years at the TED Conference, with presentations in 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, and 2014.
Frank has served as professor at ITP/NYU, Parsons School of Design, and SUNY Purchase.
Discussing his work in digital media, and the potential of new platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, Frank said, "For me, experiments are not about technology.In the ever-changing technological landscape, where platforms today are not tomorrow's platform, the key seems to be that one of these spaces can use doses of humanity and art and culture. "
Frank is a former president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, and in January 2018 is head of research and development for BuzzFeed.
show
On March 17, 2006, Frank launched a daily video show show with zefrank . This program format combines comments on media and current events with contributions and audience activity. Each tightly-edited three-to-five-minute episode combines the Daily Show -the commentary on world events with occasional songs, observations and games or challenges for viewers to participate. Thousands of photos, videos and music files were donated by the audience, including over 1,000 photos in a 20-hour period. The show appeared every working day until its final episode on March 17, 2007, exactly one year after its inception. Following the success of the show, Frank signed a contract with United Talent Agency of Beverly Hills, Calif. For representation. The style of The Show has influenced many popular video bloggers today, such as Vlogbrothers.
In October 2013, Frank posted an entire episode of the event library to YouTube, after deleting it a few weeks earlier from blip.tv. The entire catalog is also available for purchase from its webstore at zefrank.com.
show
On February 27, 2012, Ze Frank announces that he will perform three times a week, which will be "the same but different" from The Show . Similar to other projects, Frank's new venture will be a collaboration between him and his audience. The new show, titled "show" is funded by a Kickstarter campaign that collects $ 146,752 in eleven days. It debuted on April 9, 2012 with an episode titled "An Invocation for Beginnings". Animated dreams (short animations built around audio submitted by viewers 'a show') are regular weekly features. Eight months later, with the release of the "Body Karaoke" episode on November 30, 2012, the "show" and associated collaborative efforts, including "projects" and "missions" went unannounced. There is no official announcement of "show" status or whether series production will continue.
On January 12 and 13, 2013, Frank hosted a public exhibition event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California, entitled "Ze Frank Weekend", featuring workshops and live events, exhibits related to "a show" and the collaborative "project" and "mission" outcomes developed between April and November of the previous year.
Events continue running on the "zefrankenfriends" YouTube channel until November 2013.
True Facts
In December 2012, Ze Frank released a video entitled "True Facts About Baby Echidnas" featuring footage of echidnas and dubbing by Frank including facts and reactions to videotapes, which have been viewed over 9 million times. Frank then released another video in an animal-focused series including "True Facts About the Octopus" which has been viewed over 9 million times, and a video focusing on Morgan Freeman's "True Facts About Morgan Freeman" actor that has been watched. 11 million times.
Other media appearances
- In February 2004, Frank appeared at the TED Conference with a lecture entitled "What's so funny about the Web?"
- On May 18, 2007, Frank spoke at the Ruby on Rails conference in Portland, Oregon.
- Frank is a replacement host on the July 23, 2007, issue of the public radio show of PRI Fair Game with Faith Salie .
- Frank speaks at Rochester Institute of Technology as part of the monthly Caroline Werner Gannett Lecture Series on October 3, 2007.
- In March 2008, Frank commented on the Graphex Gala Event Awards in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [2]
- Frank was the featured guest at The Sound of Young America on July 17, 2008.
- On October 6, 2008, Ze was the keynote speaker at the Kalido User Conference.
- Frank was presented at the 3rd Webstock conference in Wellington, New Zealand, on February 19, 2009.
- Frank is shown in the weekly webseries for Time Magazine Online.
- Frank was invited back to the TED Conference in February 2010 to provide comedy coverage in the conference.
- Frank appeared in VidCon on July 9, 2010.
- Frank speaks at the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford (UK) on July 16, 2010.
- On April 11, 2011, Frank hosted an online streaming benefit concert with Imogen Heap to raise funds and tell viewers about the fate of the Japanese after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Frank conducted interviews with experts such as James Kondo, advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan, and architect Mark Dytham, as well as various musicians including Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, Jamie Cullum, Imogen Heap, and KT Tunstall. The event is called Live 4 Sendai (part of the Live 4 X series) and raise funds for UNICEF, the Red Cross and Oxfam to continue their recovery efforts in the region.
- In 2012, Frank once again attends VidCon, performing briefly on stage.
- Frank voiced popular videos of Sweetie Kitten Friskies.
References
External links
- Wiki page on the site
- Ze Frank on IMDb
- Video interview with Ze Frank by Warren St. John, The New York Times , June 18, 2006
- "Interview: Ze Frank, performing artist", by Mark Hurst of goodexperience.com on December 4, 2002
- "Ze Frank, YouTube, and Make Money" by Heather Green, BusinessWeek , July 28, 2006
- Ze Frank at TED
- "Nerdcore comedy" (TED2004)
- Ze Frank 2007 talks about creativity, at about-creativity.com March 29, 2007
- Post Zefrank on Buzzfeed.com
- Animated dreams of 'show'
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