Sunday, September 18, 2005

PostSecret

■ PostSecret: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

■ The content of PostSecret:
PostSecret is a blog where people can share and see their secrets anonymously by mail-in(not by email) a 4-by-6-inch homemade postcard with their secrets on one side of it. There is only one secret on each card.
PostSecret offers three tips for somone who want to make their own cards: “Be brief”, “Be legible” and “Be creative”.
What kind of secrets shoud be written on those postcards ? The following are quoted from PostSecret: “You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.”
Although there is no online archive, PostSecret Project has a traveling exhibit that shows the actual postcards seen here on PostSecret at museums and art galleries, and new exhibition locations and times will be posted. Now the PostSecret book is available as an Amazon pre-order.
People who wants to see more PostSecret Images can find them in several alternative weeklies and other newspapers (some of these publications share the images online), and at the Defunktion Gallery.

PostSecret can exercise all copyright and publicity rights with all submitted information.
About ten new Secrets are posted every Sunday.To enjoy these postcards, please click on any og them to get an enlargrd one.

■ Reasons why I am recommending PostSecret:
PostSecret the blog provides people a place to reveal their secrets or to see others’ secrets. To some extent, I believe that people have desires for peeking and being peeked, and PostSecret satisfies both. It is really interesting to see others’ secrets and those homemade postcards. Some secrets are not so serious that you can just enjoy them; some of them make you feel sad. Some make you laugh; some make you think of yourself. When reding those postcards, I read myself as well. That’s why I like PostSecret and want to ercommend it. This blog is so special.