For more secrets and behind the scenes stories, follow postsecret on twitter. Frank warren is the founder and curator of the postsecret project. Some would have been included if the book had been extra long. Confessions on life, death, and god world of dreamy girls a book. Some upset, some inspire, some make us think, some make us happy.
Each card bears an intimate and powerful secretat turns inspirational, shocking, hilarious, and poeticthat is told through original illustrations, photographs, collages, and other creative means. This year, i overcame my fear of sleeping with the closet open. Confessions on life, death, and godborn from warrens collaboration with the american visionary art museums all faiths beautiful exhibitionis another provocative collection of. Frank warren started postsecret as a community art project where he invited total strangers to anonymously mail in their secrets on a homemade postcard.
Others were very disturbing in that they revealed, longheld secrets of various abuses by and toward others, and the resulting expressions of anger, regret, guilt and sadness appeared all too often throughout the book. If we could just remember this, i think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world. This is an excellent coffee table book that would provide a lot of discussion. Confessions on life, death, and godborn from warrens collaboration with the american visionary art museums all faiths beautiful exhibitionis another provocative collection of neverbefore seen. Heres how the bookwhich has been compiled from the postsecret websiteworks. A fascinating, addictively compelling look at peoples deepest secrets, told through.
Postsecret is the largest advertisementfree blog in the world. Jan 07, 2018 for the participants, these anonymous postcard confessions are part community art project, and part therapy. Warren is still receiving more postcards, and i imagine he always will. Confessions on life, death, and godborn from warrens collaboration with the american visionary art museums all faiths beautiful exhibitionis another provocative collection of neverbefore seen, artistically created postcards from around the world revealing the shocking, soulful or laughoutloud funny thoughts and. Since november 2004, warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, with secrets that run from sexual taboos and criminal activity to confessions of. Since november 2004, warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, with secrets that run from sexual taboos and criminal activity to confessions of hidden acts. Warren started postsecret as an art installation in 2004, handing out selfaddressed postcards inviting people to share their secrets with him anonymously. Up to 20 books are listed, in descending order of popularity.
Postsecret is the brainchild of frank warren who receives anonymous postcards from people confessing secrets theyve told nobody about. Theres 276 pages of art, humor and an interesting insight into so many lives. A lifetime of secrets lays bare our private fears, hopes, regrets, and desires, from people as young as eight and as old as eighty. About the author frank warren started postsecret as a community art project where he invited total strangers to anonymously mail in their secrets on a homemade postcard. Sep 02, 20 warren started postsecret as an art installation in 2004, handing out selfaddressed postcards inviting people to share their secrets with him anonymously. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives, it quickly becomes apparent that secrets are one of the things that unite uswe all have them. A postsecret book the secret lives of men and women. Some of these postcards are funny, shocking, littered with confessions, sexual desires. Anonymously read and post sex confessions and secrets on the internets best confession site. The postsecret book series by frank warren includes books postsecret.
Founded by frank warren in 2004, postsecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of an artistically decorated postcard. Although you would not have seen the secret with the elephants. Confessions on life, death, and god minecraft secrets. Frank warren left 3000 postcards in library books, coffee houses, and other random. Theres a sequel to this book, i believe, filled with an equal number of postcard secrets. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives 2005 my secret. The postcards in this book are not organized in any particular way, but the secrets that they reveal include betrayal, love, fear, courage, despair, hope, lonliness, and people send warren a 3 by 5 postcard that reveals a secret that they have never told anyone. Postsecret is an ongoing community mail art project, created by frank warren in 2005, in which people mail their secrets anonymously on a homemade postcard. Since 2004, hundreds of thousands of anonymous contributors with something to get off their chest have sent postcards to the website postsecret. Anonymous people mail in postcards that share a secret. Harry potter and the chamber of secrets enchanted postcard book. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives, it quickly becomes apparent that secrets are one of the things that unite uswe all have them heres how the bookwhich has been compiled from the postsecret websiteworks.
Frank has received over 500,000 postcards since november 2004. Postsecret on nbc today 41820 posted by frank at 10. Offers illustrated postcards from the postsecret website sent in by people who anonymously reveal secrets from their past which they have never told to anyone, presenting a full range of emotions. Having a secret can often make a person feel very alone. And written on each postcard is a strangers secret a confession of sorts, sent to warren anonymously. Stretched over a full lifespan, the secrets expose the meaningful ways.
Postsecret book johnson county library bibliocommons. Selected secrets are then posted on the postsecret website, or used for postsecrets books or museum exhibits. I think this book, reading these secrets, seeing them on paper, helps a lot of people admit their own secrets. Postsecret extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives book. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives, a lifetime of secrets. A postsecret book by frank warren 2007, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay.
Raw and revealing, these secrets express the hopes, fears and wildest confessions of young people everywhere. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. It feels wonderful to know that im not alone, and that maybe one day ill send a postcard in, and feel the secrets weight lifting away from me. In 2004 frank warren started a community art project where he asked people to anonymously mail him a postcard with one of their secrets on it. For the participants, these anonymous postcard confessions are part community art project, and part therapy. He requested that the secrets submitted be truthful and not something that the person has ever told anyone before. May 24, 2016 frank warren is the founder of, where he publishes some of the secrets strangers have mailed to him on postcards. For the project, which was started in october 2004, warren asked people to write a secret they had never told anyone on a handmade postcard and mail it to him. Anonymous confessions on a postcard with frank warren mantalks. It is impossible to quote the postcards without making the book justice, because many of the items submitted are incredible visual works, yet these three postcards may help you understand the type of material this book is about.
For my secret, a collectible, paperoverboard book that includes a page of vibrant, decorative stickers, warren has personally selected neverbeforeseen anonymous postcards created by teens and college students from across the country. Confessions on life, death, and godborn from warrens collaboration with the american visionary art museums all faiths beautiful exhibitionis another provocative collection of neverbefore seen, artistically created postcards from around the world revealing the shocking, soulful or laughoutloud funny thoughts and feelings we all share about lifes most profound questions. Anonymous confessions on a postcard with frank warren. They reveal not only personal secrets, but shared feelings of grief and immense guilt that nearly all of us have experienced at one point or another. Postcard confessions every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives hardcover november 29, 2005. The second postsecret book, my secret, focuses on the compelling and personal messages that have been sent in by college students from around the world. For a lifetime of secrets, the fourth postsecret book, ive selected postcards that show how secrets can reveal a momentary impulse or haunt us for decades and arranged them by age to follow the common journey we all take through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, maturity. We partnered with frank warren at postsecret to see how strangers react to other peoples secrets that may just hit. Shockingly, over a million people from around the world did. I didnt realize i wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as i really am. The postsecret phenomenon began when frank warren invited strangers to anonymously mail him a secret on a postcard. Sold by belmont street books and ships from amazon fulfillment.
Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives by frank. What happens when strangers read your deepest secrets. The range of efforts meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous will astound you. For the book warren has personally selected about 300 postcards that powerfully reflect the unique essence of this remarkable project. A lifetime of secrets lays bare our private fears, hopes, regrets, and. To date, more than one million postcards offering highly personal secrets have been mailed to warren from around the world. Aug 21, 2007 in 2004 frank warren started a community art project where he asked people to anonymously mail him a postcard with one of their secrets on it. Frank warren is the founder of, where he publishes some of the secrets strangers have mailed to him on postcards. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives my secret. I read select postcard secrets out loud to a group of friends. All of the postcards in this set were considered for the new book. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives the world of postsecret postsecret. Frank has received over 1 million secrets in his mailbox with more arriving every day but sunday. Others were kept out by the publisher, for example, the simpsons image and disney image would have been nearly impossible to gain the rights to reproduce.
Nov 29, 2005 for the book warren has personally selected about 300 postcards that powerfully reflect the unique essence of this remarkable project. A fascinating, addictively compelling look at peoples deepest secrets, told through anonymously submitted postcards. Frank warren is the creator of the postsecret project, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world, displaying the soulful secrets we never voice. A fascinating public airing of private thoughtssome dark, others funny, endearing or disturbingwritten on homemade postcards. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives by frank warren. Frank warren is the creator and founder of this project that has taken the world by storm. Now, in his most extraordinary book yet, warren again delves into our collective confessions, presenting a neverbeforeseen selection of provocative and moving postsecrets. See more ideas about post secret, the secret and frank warren. Jan 23, 2015 since november 2004, warren has received more than 500,000 postcards, with secrets that run from sexual taboos and criminal activity to confessions of hidden acts of kindness, shocking habits and.
A compelling book of the confessions and secrets from the postsecret website the project that captured a nations imagination. You may have seen some of these postcards in the first postsecret book. Working late into the night on the floor of a manhattan hotel, the founder of the hugely popular online secretsharing project assembled dozens of new secrets for. The world of postsecret is the sixth book from frank warren. Today, there are six bestselling postsecret books, multiple museum exhibitions, and frank warrens immersive multimedia postsecret live. May 29, 2011 postsecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. A postsecret book 2006 the secret lives of men and women.
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