The preview was great Ze. You haven't lost that rhythm. great job.
Ze, when it comes to critics:
1. You are not here to win them over, you are here to converse with us.
2. As someone once told me, "Eat the meat and spit out the bones"
Loved the backers-only preview, thank you for that. I'd give more specific praise but you're clearly itching to go in new directions, and I wouldn't want even positive remarks to feel like a constraint or an expectation. Whatever I want will come from your commitment and sincerity, regardless of what you try. I'm looking forward to it.
March 17, 2006... 6 years ago today: There was awesome. I wait patiently for more awesome. In the mean time, I honor awesome by watching back episodes of awesome.
dying. that's hyperbole. But anxious? checking daily 2/3x to see if there is news of the date in 'end of march' near the anniversary of the first The Show to see if there's a date yet? Putting off life-sustaining activities like work to do the same. Uh . Ya. That's me.
ahem...I mean...not that you weren't doing anything else in the meantime Ze...loved the TED talk...and the TIME pieces...heh timepieces...and the links and commentary on soo many cool, fun, interesting things along the way....I just meant "What is Ze Frank up to now (that is of the breadth and scale of The Show")...no disrespect..:)
Ze I'm making a website called www.gofuckingdosomething.com It's bucket list that curses at you to fucking to do something with your life. if you did one or two of the actions it would be awesome. Let the site decide what you do. It'll be live in the coming weeks
Wow Ze. There's so much depressing material out there and today's news is the poop flavoured icing on an already generously smelly sewage cake. Maybe ignoring the news and having 52 happy weeks is the thing to do? I'd like that.
Well, we have consensus - 98 votes Street Chickens Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies takes it over 96 votes Elements+Duckies: Flaming Hookbills (Fire), High Tide Mallards (Water), Dusty Pintails (Earth), Gale Force Goldeneyes (Air).
For the raw data, http://tinyurl.com/Gabble-Workspace. There is also frantic work going on for the Hankos, check it out.
Ze: Augmented Reality App. I love when reality gets blurred with magic. Your perspective on so many things during "The Show" (like Break the Habit) saw the world in a magical way. I think thus, we should have an Android and iOS app that did some cool Augmented Reality stuff. It could be as simple as adding duckies to the landscape, or locating nearby signed-up sportsracers, but I think collaboratively we can come up with some awesome ideas.
Ok, Backers, we are REALLY working hard to find consensus here. When the votes were all tallied, and the duplicate IP's deleted, we ended up with a 63/62 vote; THEME - Element Synonym+Duckie / Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies
A group of us met in the Googledocs that's been linked here, and hashed it out. Our consensus was that is just too close to call. But we still have to make the 12aPST deadline Ze set, and he's asked that we include Hanko draft concepts as well. So. We're opening the polls one last time, from 2p - 12a EST.
A crew of folks is busily working on hanko drafts to submit with a final slate of 4 Element+Duckies: Flaming Dutch Hookbills, High Tide Mallards, Dusty Pintails and Gale Force Goldeneyes
VS
Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies.
If you want to join in the Hanko design concepts for either option, Scott Moore is heading up team Street Chickens and Georgiana is heading up team Element+Duckies. See their thoughts on the Hanko tab and join in the chat section of this. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc…
All 4 Hanko final concepts for each option need to be combined into 1 jpg image and ready to go by 1:45p EST so the polls can open at 2EST
Voter Update, polls closing in 45 minutes (11aEST)
Preliminary results: After deleting duplicate IP Addresses, we have 162 votes.
18 for Rapscallion, Scalawag, Knave, and Jackanape
30 for Irony, Pathos, Hyperbole, and Phil
56 for Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies
58 for THEME - Element Synonym+Duckie; e.g. Flaming Dutch Hookbills, High Tide Mallards, Gale Force Goldeneyes, Dusty Pintails, Smoking Buffleheads, Avalanche Eiders
FINAL Poll open here http://www.tinyurl.com/Gabble-Name-Poll
Good morning!
Take a look at update 6 & 4 for more info on what we're voting on, but we need your input. FINAL Poll open now here http://booroo.com/app/showpoll.asp… .
After we removed votes from duplicate IP Addresses, we had 3 sets of 4 names and 1 THEME as the leaders. So, please now vote for your favorite ONE set of 4 names. We have limited the poll to 1 vote per IP address. Polls close at 11a EST, so please, help keep this message current in the COMMENTS. Thanks all! = )
Just backed then. Looking forward to the Moby Dick poem :)
Just an idea but any thoughts regarding creating an app (both iOS and Android) for the new show? A way for us to keep up to date and stream episodes on the go :) Just a thought, feel free to shoot it down.
The master is returning. You may be responsible for the YouTube style of vlogging but nobody knows how to utilize the benefits of this medium like you do sir. Promise to never fall into the habit of just making videos directed towards us? Personally I'd rather dress up my vacuum cleaner or make an ugly obsolete MySpace page than write a comment or make a video response where all I do is say whether or not I like the original video.
Ze - My then-boyfriend Carl and I totally bonded over watching The Show together back in '06. Now we are married and have a 2 1/2 week old son and we are SO EXCITED for The Show's return! Looking forward to all of the fun!
OK. FINAL Poll open now here http://booroo.com/app/showpoll.asp…
.
After we removed votes from duplicate IP Addresses, we had 3 sets of 4 names and 1 THEME as the leaders. So, please now vote for your favorite ONE set of 4 names. We have limited the poll to 1 vote per IP address. I'll be afk most of the night, so please, help keep this message current in the COMMENTS. Thanks all! = )
if you get enough money, can you buy some paint to put on the invisible children so we can see them. i dont like thinking they are going around coughing and sneezing on things and we dont know where.
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Alias Cummins on November 27, 2013
Still waiting to see my face subliminally in an episode... please get in touch!
Michael Klouda on March 16, 2013
I never received my reward either, sent an email but have not heard a response.
Noah Ullmann on July 29, 2012
I was also wondering who to talk to about the pledge reward.
Tony Dew on May 1, 2012
Just realized I never received my baby! Who do I contact to find out what happened?
Barry (wuz "Catman") (deleted) on April 19, 2012
Oh nooooo! Episode 5!
Where was I???
(I musta fergot).
catman
Liza LS on April 9, 2012
Anyone transcribe the invocation yet? I'd be happy to make an attempt, but I'd much rather credit someone's good work if it's already been done. :)
Tony Gambee on April 9, 2012
The preview was great Ze. You haven't lost that rhythm. great job.
Ze, when it comes to critics:
1. You are not here to win them over, you are here to converse with us.
2. As someone once told me, "Eat the meat and spit out the bones"
Dan Sanderson on April 8, 2012
Loved the backers-only preview, thank you for that. I'd give more specific praise but you're clearly itching to go in new directions, and I wouldn't want even positive remarks to feel like a constraint or an expectation. Whatever I want will come from your commitment and sincerity, regardless of what you try. I'm looking forward to it.
Tricia Larese on March 17, 2012
Oh. Yeah. This: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/03/031706.html
Tricia Larese on March 17, 2012
March 17, 2006... 6 years ago today: There was awesome. I wait patiently for more awesome. In the mean time, I honor awesome by watching back episodes of awesome.
Samma on March 16, 2012
dying. that's hyperbole. But anxious? checking daily 2/3x to see if there is news of the date in 'end of march' near the anniversary of the first The Show to see if there's a date yet? Putting off life-sustaining activities like work to do the same. Uh . Ya. That's me.
Okun on March 14, 2012
anyone else dying to see what happens now?
Moonis Family on March 12, 2012
ahem...I mean...not that you weren't doing anything else in the meantime Ze...loved the TED talk...and the TIME pieces...heh timepieces...and the links and commentary on soo many cool, fun, interesting things along the way....I just meant "What is Ze Frank up to now (that is of the breadth and scale of The Show")...no disrespect..:)
Moonis Family on March 12, 2012
So glad that the 73rd random impulse to Google "What's Ze Frank up to now?" has finally yielded fruit...really looking forward to this...
Allan Dixon on March 12, 2012
Ze I'm making a website called www.gofuckingdosomething.com It's bucket list that curses at you to fucking to do something with your life. if you did one or two of the actions it would be awesome. Let the site decide what you do. It'll be live in the coming weeks
Ben Capper on March 11, 2012
Wow Ze. There's so much depressing material out there and today's news is the poop flavoured icing on an already generously smelly sewage cake. Maybe ignoring the news and having 52 happy weeks is the thing to do? I'd like that.
Frankie Day on March 11, 2012
I missed you, Ze.
Kay Sindre Skogseth on March 10, 2012
http://www.ted.com/talks/ze_frank_s_nerdcore_comedy.html
Kay Sindre Skogseth on March 10, 2012
HUzzah! Ever since I saw your TED presentation I have longed for more.
Michael Agard on March 9, 2012
Hearty congratulations, Ze! This is a great project to be a part of.
Alex Honnet on March 9, 2012
I'm so excited to be a part of this project! HOORAY!
Cathy Frank on March 9, 2012
Congratulations Ze! what an outpourring of love and support! You must be so proud and happy! And so am I.
Okun on March 9, 2012
146752 dollars raised from 3900 backers is an average of over 37 dollars a person. that's awesome!
Amelia Lacey on March 9, 2012
well done, it is a shame it didnt get to the 150000 for you to visit three people thing
Kehnin Dyer on March 9, 2012
darn... i was hoping to be the last backer...
Brian Wu
Superbacker
on March 9, 2012
So, I'm curious, who has gone out of their way to use the word "megagaltastic" in their writing in the past few years?
mike mcgrath on March 9, 2012
I am NOT a hard charger. Nonetheless, this dog will hunt. Perhaps fly.
Happy to give it a small push along the media road.
Samma on March 9, 2012
Well, we have consensus - 98 votes Street Chickens Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies takes it over 96 votes Elements+Duckies: Flaming Hookbills (Fire), High Tide Mallards (Water), Dusty Pintails (Earth), Gale Force Goldeneyes (Air).
For the raw data, http://tinyurl.com/Gabble-Workspace. There is also frantic work going on for the Hankos, check it out.
Okun on March 8, 2012
3 hours to break 150... it's not impossible...
Dean and Julie on March 8, 2012
Update #9 Nicely Done!
Katebits on March 8, 2012
I feel like running face first into a wall with excitement! Yaaaaaaay!
Emma Branch on March 8, 2012
My first time backing a kickstarter campaign feel so right when it's for you, Ze!
Tobias Beer on March 8, 2012
Go on...
jcymail on March 8, 2012
Duckies! Yee!
Samma on March 8, 2012
New Poll Open! For backers only, look to Update 6 for the new link!
Ron T Blechner on March 8, 2012
Ze: Augmented Reality App. I love when reality gets blurred with magic. Your perspective on so many things during "The Show" (like Break the Habit) saw the world in a magical way. I think thus, we should have an Android and iOS app that did some cool Augmented Reality stuff. It could be as simple as adding duckies to the landscape, or locating nearby signed-up sportsracers, but I think collaboratively we can come up with some awesome ideas.
-Ron
Samma on March 8, 2012
Ok, Backers, we are REALLY working hard to find consensus here. When the votes were all tallied, and the duplicate IP's deleted, we ended up with a 63/62 vote; THEME - Element Synonym+Duckie / Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies
A group of us met in the Googledocs that's been linked here, and hashed it out. Our consensus was that is just too close to call. But we still have to make the 12aPST deadline Ze set, and he's asked that we include Hanko draft concepts as well. So. We're opening the polls one last time, from 2p - 12a EST.
A crew of folks is busily working on hanko drafts to submit with a final slate of 4 Element+Duckies: Flaming Dutch Hookbills, High Tide Mallards, Dusty Pintails and Gale Force Goldeneyes
VS
Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies.
If you want to join in the Hanko design concepts for either option, Scott Moore is heading up team Street Chickens and Georgiana is heading up team Element+Duckies. See their thoughts on the Hanko tab and join in the chat section of this. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc…
All 4 Hanko final concepts for each option need to be combined into 1 jpg image and ready to go by 1:45p EST so the polls can open at 2EST
Scott von Berg - scottobear on March 8, 2012
Can't wait for the Show to return! Much love to all supporters.
Samma on March 8, 2012
Voter Update, polls closing in 45 minutes (11aEST)
Preliminary results: After deleting duplicate IP Addresses, we have 162 votes.
18 for Rapscallion, Scalawag, Knave, and Jackanape
30 for Irony, Pathos, Hyperbole, and Phil
56 for Street Chickens, Fire Eagles, Li'l Duckies, Giant Babies
58 for THEME - Element Synonym+Duckie; e.g. Flaming Dutch Hookbills, High Tide Mallards, Gale Force Goldeneyes, Dusty Pintails, Smoking Buffleheads, Avalanche Eiders
FINAL Poll open here http://www.tinyurl.com/Gabble-Name-Poll
Samma on March 8, 2012
Grrrr! this link. http://www.tinyurl.com/Gabble-Name-Poll
Samma on March 8, 2012
Good morning!
Take a look at update 6 & 4 for more info on what we're voting on, but we need your input. FINAL Poll open now here http://booroo.com/app/showpoll.asp…
.
After we removed votes from duplicate IP Addresses, we had 3 sets of 4 names and 1 THEME as the leaders. So, please now vote for your favorite ONE set of 4 names. We have limited the poll to 1 vote per IP address. Polls close at 11a EST, so please, help keep this message current in the COMMENTS. Thanks all! = )
Roy Hampton on March 8, 2012
Just backed then. Looking forward to the Moby Dick poem :)
Just an idea but any thoughts regarding creating an app (both iOS and Android) for the new show? A way for us to keep up to date and stream episodes on the go :) Just a thought, feel free to shoot it down.
Michael Abreo on March 8, 2012
The master is returning. You may be responsible for the YouTube style of vlogging but nobody knows how to utilize the benefits of this medium like you do sir. Promise to never fall into the habit of just making videos directed towards us? Personally I'd rather dress up my vacuum cleaner or make an ugly obsolete MySpace page than write a comment or make a video response where all I do is say whether or not I like the original video.
Aubrey S on March 7, 2012
Ze - My then-boyfriend Carl and I totally bonded over watching The Show together back in '06. Now we are married and have a 2 1/2 week old son and we are SO EXCITED for The Show's return! Looking forward to all of the fun!
Samma on March 7, 2012
OK. FINAL Poll open now here http://booroo.com/app/showpoll.asp…
.
After we removed votes from duplicate IP Addresses, we had 3 sets of 4 names and 1 THEME as the leaders. So, please now vote for your favorite ONE set of 4 names. We have limited the poll to 1 vote per IP address. I'll be afk most of the night, so please, help keep this message current in the COMMENTS. Thanks all! = )
andros on March 7, 2012
if you get enough money, can you buy some paint to put on the invisible children so we can see them. i dont like thinking they are going around coughing and sneezing on things and we dont know where.
Exogenous Variable on March 7, 2012
I am really happy about this. I still go back and listen to the 12/4 episode (especially the Rumsfeld song) about twice a year.
Gene Wise on March 6, 2012
Ze just want to say Im so glad the Show is coming back and just thanks for being out there man. G,
Samma on March 6, 2012
Darn free technology!
Ze Frank Creator on March 6, 2012
don't think it is getting randomized - i refreshed a few times.