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Post Secret
« on: November 7, 2007, 11:18:37 pm »
Stay with me, now.

Post Secret is an ongoing community art project, where people decorate their own blank postcards and write one secret on the postcard and mail it in to, you know, Post Secret Central. Here's a quote from the wiki entry.

"The simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No restrictions were (or are) made on the content of the secret; only that it must be completely truthful and must never have been spoken before. Restrictions are, however made on how the secret can be shared once they have become the property of Postsecret, there website has the following legal notice: "(long chunks of legal crap)" Entries range from admissions of sexual misconduct and criminal activity to confessions of secret desires, embarrassing habits, hopes and dreams.

I presume they don't allow you to name names, but some of the secrets are just knock you out cold stuff, and more are just very sweet.

Anyway, it's a very cool thing and you should all send in secrets, or simply marvel at everyone else's. Apparently, they don't archive stuff but people do up 'best of's on youtube. Here's one.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #1 on: November 8, 2007, 05:24:06 am »
First time I saw the site was about 2 years ago (might be more, actually) and see it pop up now and then.

I quite like the site.
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #2 on: November 8, 2007, 11:15:39 am »
:o
that spider one ...

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #3 on: November 8, 2007, 12:00:13 pm »
This is the main website address.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #4 on: November 8, 2007, 12:23:22 pm »
Great site.
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #5 on: November 8, 2007, 01:40:16 pm »
A la Amazon ... if you like that, you might also like this.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #6 on: November 8, 2007, 09:39:27 pm »
Never heard of this before but spent a very enjoyable twenty minutes or so going through some, thank you.

"Sometimes we put up walls. Not to keep people out but to see who cares enough to knock them down" suddenly hit home. I could have written that, but I've only just realised.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #7 on: November 8, 2007, 09:46:48 pm »
Looking through that website I could probably write about 20.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #8 on: November 8, 2007, 09:53:29 pm »
Looking through that website I could probably write about 20.

Remember, you have to make a bit of an effort with the design/decoration, too.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #9 on: November 8, 2007, 10:00:05 pm »
Remember, you have to make a bit of an effort with the design/decoration, too.

I probably wouldn't anyway, but I generally like a bit of design work.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2007, 11:42:22 pm »
Little bump for this week's offerings. Some good stuff in there.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2007, 11:46:49 pm »


i know it's not the idea but this one made me laugh.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2007, 11:49:08 pm »
i know it's not the idea but this one made me laugh.

Nobody said they couldn't be funny.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #13 on: November 11, 2007, 11:50:15 pm »
Nobody said they couldn't be funny.

Yes but it's hardly a comedy website, and it's probably not the intention for people to pick out the amusing ones.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #14 on: November 11, 2007, 11:51:40 pm »
Yes but it's hardly a comedy website, and it's probably not the intention for people to pick out the amusing ones.

Screw that. It's art. You get what you want out of it.

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Re: Post Secret
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2007, 08:41:27 pm »
The Guardian have one in the Saturday magazine every week.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2007, 08:42:57 pm »
Fucking love this website. Checked it every week for a good year now.
Yes but it's hardly a comedy website, and it's probably not the intention for people to pick out the amusing ones.
I think the guy behind it has said a few times he purposely picks out a few comedy ones.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2007, 08:43:33 pm »
The Guardian have one in the Saturday magazine every week.

And in the Observer mag, too.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2007, 10:03:07 pm »
The secret that stood out most for me was:

'I regret every descision I ever made except for my abortion'
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Re: Post Secret
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2007, 02:44:52 pm »
The secret that stood out most for me was:

'I regret every descision I ever made except for my abortion'
some of them definitely are drama queens.
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Re: Post Secret
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #23 on: January 5, 2008, 10:07:16 pm »
great stuff

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #24 on: January 5, 2008, 10:11:58 pm »

Let's make up a secret and make one and see if they publish it.

My husband refuses to give me oral sex, so I fart in his face whilst he's sleeping

Something like that.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #25 on: January 5, 2008, 10:15:24 pm »
Let's make up a secret and make one and see if they publish it.

My husband refuses to give me oral sex, so I fart in his face whilst he's sleeping

Something like that.



yeah


thats mature 8-)

obviously everyone can lie, but that' s not the point is it?

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #26 on: January 5, 2008, 10:27:59 pm »


I submitted a secret to postsecret about my husband not giving me oral sex so I fart in his face whilst he's sleeping, but it was a lie. In fact I was traumatised as a child when I accidently stuck my finger up my ass, and now I can't stop inventing poignant lies for art projects.




"My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Napoleon had that idea. He wanted to conquer the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in."

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #27 on: January 5, 2008, 11:34:26 pm »

I submitted a secret to postsecret about my husband not giving me oral sex so I fart in his face whilst he's sleeping, but it was a lie. In fact I was traumatised as a child when I accidently stuck my finger up my ass, and now I can't stop inventing poignant lies for art projects.

aahhh, so your a girl. Hmmmmm. with 29 posts a day and an uninterested husband, you're obviously a girl time on her hands but scared to do anything with your fingers !
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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #28 on: January 6, 2008, 12:23:36 am »
aahhh, so your a girl. Hmmmmm. with 29 posts a day and an uninterested husband, you're obviously a girl time on her hands but scared to do anything with your fingers !

hahaha you're dead funny

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #29 on: January 6, 2008, 11:01:12 am »
Have seen the site before and I still have an idea locked away for a future project, just need someone to approach me with the right idea to use it.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #30 on: January 6, 2008, 11:04:34 am »
yeah


thats mature 8-)

obviously everyone can lie, but that' s not the point is it?


I think the idea is art in its purist form. Not one person is trying to earn any money by sending in secrets. It is a door into everyones creative side.......It is real thinking out of the box stuff, even down to the one where someone has just printed a sentence out from a computer and taped it to a postcard.......Amzing insight into how people feel.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #31 on: January 6, 2008, 02:15:02 pm »
Let's make up a secret and make one and see if they publish it.

My husband refuses to give me oral sex, so I fart in his face whilst he's sleeping

Something like that.



Let's not. It's their project, not yours, and they said no lies. You want to make shit up, start your own project.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #32 on: January 6, 2008, 03:35:24 pm »
Let's not. It's their project, not yours, and they said no lies. You want to make shit up, start your own project.

Crikey, a little light piss taking in the spirit of Duchamp of a precious, self-regardingly banal and sentimental art project on a football message board shouldn't be seen as an affront against truth or taken seriously squire.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #33 on: January 6, 2008, 11:13:39 pm »
Crikey, a little light piss taking in the spirit of Duchamp of a precious, self-regardingly banal and sentimental art project on a football message board shouldn't be seen as an affront against truth or taken seriously squire.

And there was me thinking you were serious. You obviously have a poorly honed sense of Duchamp.

You do have a poor view of the Post secret project, as well, don't you? "Precious, self regardingly banal and sentimental art project". You rather miss the point. The project simply requests content, which is then provided by people, presumably honestly, and for no gain. It seems you think regular people's secrets are "precious, self regardingly banal and sentimental". Which is fine, and you're entitled to your opinion, but I suspect that opinion is more of an observation on you than them.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #34 on: January 7, 2008, 12:44:02 am »
And there was me thinking you were serious. You obviously have a poorly honed sense of Duchamp.

You do have a poor view of the Post secret project, as well, don't you? "Precious, self regardingly banal and sentimental art project". You rather miss the point. The project simply requests content, which is then provided by people, presumably honestly, and for no gain. It seems you think regular people's secrets are "precious, self regardingly banal and sentimental". Which is fine, and you're entitled to your opinion, but I suspect that opinion is more of an observation on you than them.

Naah mate. That line probably sounded good to you when you typed it, but it's not an observation on me, it's an observation on what I said it was. And yes, it's all opinion, and we shouldn't be precious or pompous about opinions on 'art', 'projects', 'postcards' or 'secrets'.

I have a rather fine appreciation of Duchamp and his impish spirit of inversion of art projects and art criticism, he was a fine man.

Sorry to have violated your soul with a joke about this thing, I live in fear of a postsecret fatwa now.  So a thousand humble apologies, enjoy the show :wave

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #35 on: January 7, 2008, 04:55:52 pm »
Let's not. It's their project, not yours, and they said no lies. You want to make shit up, start your own project.
Im pretty sure a lot of the stuff sent in is lies. Especially the jokey ones.

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Re: Post Secret
« Reply #36 on: January 7, 2008, 10:51:03 pm »
First time I saw the site was about 2 years ago (might be more, actually) and see it pop up now and then.

I quite like the site.
i bet ya do.i get the feeling your head is well and truly screwed on.and u find it quite amusing like most things in life that this shite(the mentioned) is going on like i do .

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Re: Post Secret
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Re: Post Secret
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