This site amazes me. It appeals to my gossip-monger, and artistic side, all at once. At PostSecret, people anonymously send in their secrets on a homemade postcard, which are posted on the site. I don’t know if they’re all true, but I hope they are. It’s be sad to send in a fake secret, just to get a reaction from somebody. New secrets replace old ones, so there isn’t an archive. Of course, it made me think of what MY secret would be. What about yours?
"It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places — asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously.
The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art — carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional." [Barnes & Noble]
These are from today:
March 15th, 2006 at March 15, 2006 - 6:43 am
I’ve seen a music video that show the same thing throughout the video. forgot the name of the band and song.
March 15th, 2006 at March 15, 2006 - 9:55 am
i think u’re talking about “dirty little secrets” by all american rejects…
frank warren, IMO, is a genius for coming up with this project..now he’s world famous and he doesn’t even have to do anything. in addition, he still gets over 100-200 postcards a day..probably more now. i wanna see them…
March 15th, 2006 at March 15, 2006 - 10:12 pm
I just read an article on USA Today about PostSecret.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-03-14-postsecrets_x.htm
This is what I found amazing:
“Yet just a year after its launch, PostSecret is a smash hit. It’s the third-most-popular blog in the blogosphere of nearly 30 million blogs, based on the number of other blogs that link to it, according to Technorati, the leading blog-tracking service. Nielsen BuzzMetrics says PostSecret always is in the top 20 at blog-watching BlogPulse.com every Monday morning. It also gets 2.3 million unique visitors a month and 3 million page loads a month, according to another Web-measuring service, StatCounter.com.”
Nanamjaya: The video you mentioned was All-American Rejects’ music video for their hit Dirty Little Secret.