

In 2006, his YouTube channel "zefrank1" was created, which hosts the popular True Facts series. 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."įrank won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Website (People's Voice) and in 2005, he was featured in Time Magazine's "50 Coolest Websites." Frank debuted onstage at Mark Hurst's first annual Gel conference in 2003. Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Frank's personal website. In 2001, Frank created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. įrank was listed as second author on a paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, which was featured briefly in episode 21 of a show on May 25, 2012, called My Pupils, explaining that his study of neuroscience of vision was motivated by his harmless anisocoria condition. At the end of 2008, Frank and his wife moved from Brooklyn Heights, in New York City, to Westwood, in Los Angeles. In 2003 he married his longtime girlfriend Jody Brandt whom he met at Brown University. At the university, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/ jam band called Dowdy Smack, along with Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla, until its dissolution in 1998. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1995. įrank was educated at a Montessori school, known for its constructivist teaching methods, and graduated with a B.S.
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He has a sister, who is a painter, as was indicated in his series the show with zefrank. Personal life įrank was born to German-American parents (his father is Chemistry Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank) and raised in a suburb of Albany, New York. Hosea Jan " Ze" Frank ( / ˈ z eɪ/ born March 31, 1972) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles.
