Monday, January 11, 2010

PostSecret


Have you heard of the intriguing PostSecret project? To quote from the site: "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard." The results are funny, sad, thoughtful, poignant, hilarious, dark, cranky and/or a complex mix of emotions — and a little window into the souls of strangers. Have a look here. Note: some of the postcards are NSFW or suitable for the kiddies.

Thanks so much to lovely BPS member Olga for sending me the link!


(shown above is a submission to PostSecret)

7 comments:

~L~ said...

You should check out the books. They're so fun.

Christina @ My Sparrow said...

I flipped through the book once and it was really interesting almost sad though that people had such dark secrets!

Casey said...

I LOVE PostSecret! I want to send in a postcard this year

katrina and the king said...

I was hearing on NPR the other day how the mail is becoming obsolete and down 15% or something like that but the USA refuses to hike up postal prices. Anyways...I was thinking maybe you could notify NPR of this project...it would be a great thing for them to feature ;)

benevolent Postcard Society said...

Thanks for the NPR idea, Katrina — so sweet of you to suggest it!

Lori
:-)

Anonymous said...

There are more of them here. They don't show the archive on the Blogger site: http://postsecret.tumblr.com

I've posted one to them but it never showed up.... I wanted someone to know, even if I couldn't ever tell someone.

Benevolent Postcard Society said...

Thanks so much for the link, Anonymous — really kind of you to share that. And I hope that you're okay and in a good place, too.

Take care,
Lori