Interview with Ze Frank

December 4, 2002 8:52 PM

Interview with Ze Frank - "online performance artist and humorist". A link to the first of his projects, a wildly successful party invite, "How to dance properly" was posted on metafilter in March 2001. "I sent the link to 17 friends ... By Monday it was getting over a million people a day, and I was getting over seven e-mails a minute." See the various stats pages for a funny summary of the contents of some of those e-mails.
posted by atom71 (6 comments total)

well i enjoyed the link....why do i get the feeling that people are staring at this post like it just farted in front of the pope?
posted by kev23f at 7:22 AM on December 5, 2002

I second kev23f's enjoyment, especially as I missed the original post. Do we have a quorum yet?
posted by hippugeek at 8:06 AM on December 5, 2002

It's been forever since I saw this, and I'd completely forgotten about it. Thanks for posting it, I enjoyed it as well. I don't know if we have a quorum. Doesn't that mean a majority? What would be the majority of 17,137 people?
posted by stoneegg21 at 9:59 AM on December 5, 2002

stoneegg21: No, a quorum is simply the number of members that's required by the bylaws (or other constitutive document) to be present in order for business to be transacted. In this case, I don't think a quorum has been defined on MeFi, so I propose we set it as three. All opposed?.... Motion carried, we have a quorum!
posted by languagehat at 10:36 AM on December 5, 2002

Great interview link. Ze Frank's site has always been a favorite. Well done!
posted by Joey Michaels at 10:49 AM on December 5, 2002

Good link, atom71. I'd not come across zefrank before, and there's lots of fun stuff to play with over at his site. Mucho thanks!
posted by hot soup girl at 12:29 AM on December 11, 2002