Ze Frank is a prolific creative force who has provided tons of cool stuff over the internet since some time in 2001. He started a year-long video blog last March 17, which he finished yesterday. It was consistently good, often great, just by itself. The cool thing about Ze is that it doesn’t stop with what he does: he’s hugely interested in community. Most episodes of The Show opened with introductions provided by Sports Racers (the community). There’s a social networking site for Sports Racers, and lots of other goodness. Ze will apparently be working with Dreamworks now (the penultimate episode of the show featured a cameo by Jack Black — what that means I don’t know, but hey, he’s famous) and I can’t wait to see what he does from here.
Ze spoke at the TED conference back in 2004. He didn’t have very long to talk, but it gives some fun insight into his performance quality and what about the internet interests him. Check it out. His performance reminds me of vintage Steve Martin at times.