The third-most popular weblog on Technorati right now is Post Secret, "an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their
secrets
anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard".
Beautiful hand-made postcards that are in turn heatbreaking, poignant, and crack-up finny. There’s a book, too. The curator, Frank Warren, is all about giving money to the National Hopeline Network for suicide prevention. Good stuff.
Here’s what he says about mailing your secrets:
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.Create your 4-by-6-inch
postcards out of any mailable material. If you want to share two or
more secrets, use multiple postcards. Put your complete secret and
image on one side of the postcard.If your secret is posted,
please consider mailing in a follow-up postcard, letter or email
describing the effect, if any, the experience had on your life.Tips:
Be brief – the fewer words used the better.
Be legible – use big, clear and bold lettering.
Be creative – let the postcard be your canvas.