Ze Frank’s Show — STC Speaker in Minneapolis Conference

February 15th, 2007 | Posted in blog 3 Comments »

You probably saw the brief descriptions of the two keynote speakers at the STC Conference in March, but did you know one is a podcaster. Or a videocaster, or a new media artist. The show with zefrank is an interesting new video art form. He does some creative, theatrical commentary while looking at your straight in the eye.

Click the image above to see Ze Frank talk about Google and Valentine’s day and “Googe.” The show is a satire on Google’s omission of an L in their Valentine’s day mock up, but there’s no overwhelming point to it other than artistic expression. He’s like a humor columnist on video. You can watch more Ze Frank Shows here—click the popular shows link.

I haven’t watched too many of these because I don’t have a video iPod, but they are pretty funny. Not quite as good as Ask a Ninja, though. Even my kids like Ask a Ninja. Do you listen to any videocasts like these?

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Marcus says:

March 9, 2007 at 7:39 pm

Not quite as good as Ask a Ninja?

I like ask a ninja.. but Ze Frank grows on you, watch about 20-30 episodes and read the Wiki and you’ll understand theres a whole underbelly to everything.. it takes about 10-20 episodes before you catch some of the references he makes..

Check more of him out, you’ll enjoy it trust me..

–Marcus from Minneapolis, who now lives in San Francisco..

Tom says:

March 12, 2007 at 7:07 am

Thanks Marcus. I watched another Ze Frank show yesterday and will see if won’t grow on me more. He is certainly unique. I’ll also check out the wiki.

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