April 01, 2005

PostSecret "Over 3000 visitors to a Washington DC arts festival picked up postcards inviting them to share a secret anonymously. Before Artomatic ended in December 2004, 148 PostSecret cards, with secrets - some illustrated - were received through the mail."
posted by goofyfoot 19 years ago
  • artomatic is very, very cool. it's full of stuff like this. in fact, there's so much stuff, you can't see it all! so i'm glad you posted this. warning: extremely addictive! yowsa. anyone care to share any secrets?
  • Fascinating, and a tad frightening. )))
  • Wow. )))))
  • What's really great about this is the multitude of emotions they convey. One moment I'm cracking up over one, then next, it's frighteningly shocking and honest. Nice!
  • Guillermo Gomez Pena did an art installation where he offered the opportunity for people to "confess their sins to a Mexican." (It's been a few years -- I think that's how he put it...) They could either tell him in a special video confessional or write it down on paper. It's strange how willing people were to confess.
  • I like the big joyful ones. I'd never heard of Artomatic before - so there's more I should wallow in at their site, SideDish? I'd tell a secret, but I'd want to illustrate it, and can't here. You?
  • Goofy, fer shure you can--paint or photoshop it and put post it with a jpg on a linky psst! Goofy's got a seeeekreeet. Goofy's got a seeeekreeet.
  • Wow...that is great )))))))! Good find!
  • )))) Best site I've seen in ages. Thanks goofyfoot!
  • Nice link, thank you.
  • There was (perhaps still is) a site where people could post secrets online anonymously. That was fun but this is so much better. I think it is the time taken in writing and illustrating the secrets that makes them seem more genuine. Many are poignant, many funny. Thanks goofyfoot.
  • )))!!! Fascinating glimpses -- what wonderfully eloquent and imaginative creatures we are. Thanks, goofyfoot.
  • Thanks for that. Excellent site.
  • I quite like 'We Built This City on Rock and Roll" by Starship. There. I've said it.
  • And I'm not forgetting it, you prevert.
  • *starts humming / doing that 80s soft-rock shoulder dance*
  • I bet you also like Rick Springfield, you gaylord.
  • I don't even know who he is, you goddam canucktard!
  • You know I wish that I had Jesse's Girl! I wish that I had Jesse's Girl! Where can I find a woman like that?
  • Rick Springfield's real name is Richard Lewis Springthorpe.
  • I bet he was known as 'Dick Spring' at school.
  • He wants you to duck into that alley 'round the corner with him. Go ahead.
  • Will he let me touch his 'puppy's' shiny wet nose?
  • /collapse
  • Heh. I was listening to music here, and for some reason it thought I might like to listen to that Rick Dickspring Twat. Awful. Bearing in mind I'd been telling it I wanted to hear the Smiths, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack and Japan! Sheesh.