Back in March of this year, a great period in web history came to pass. After months of having my plate piled as high as a Vegas buffet, I wanted to circle back and take a moment to reflect. At the time this started, I had a weekly radio show. We were one of the first radio stations regularly podcasting our shows. I never thought much of it: over the air waves, streaming across the web and now internet archives. I had a tape recorder, yes a tape recorder, as in compact cassette recorder, no big deal right? But then zefrank came on the scene with the show.
Example of the ever changing starting screen for the show
For those of you who aren’t familiar with zefrank, I highly encourage you to set aside a few minutes and indulge. “the show with zefrank” was a short video program produced Monday through Friday for exactly one year. It quickly became synonymous amongst Sports Racers, with Podcasting technology. You can catch all the greatness by visiting the archives.
more than a designer (maybe)
My first exposer to Ze, was through a short film he made called Red Alert.
still from zefrank’s Red Alert
It was all down hill from there. If I ever refer to anti-design when I write, Ze is a perfect embodiment of what I mean. I don’t mean the common Web 2.0 treatments that so often earn this label elsewhere on the web. True anti-design is much more akin to conceptual art, than traditional design. The show will be missed, as well as the other projects of awesomeness that followed, like the earth sandwich and hundreds of vacuum cleaners.
