IQInvestigations.net - Medical, Fire, Crime, Forensics, Paranormal, Laboratory.... |
|
|
| | Location: Home » Private » Art » PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives | October 14, 2008 |
|
 |  | |  |
| PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives | 
enlarge
| Author: Frank Warren Publisher: William Morrow Category: Book
List Price: $26.95 Buy New: $14.90 You Save: $12.05 (45%)
Buy New/Used/Collectible from $14.32
Avg. Customer Rating:   (245 reviews) Sales Rank: 773
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5 Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060899190 Dewey Decimal Number: 155.418 EAN: 9780060899196 ASIN: 0060899190
Publication Date: December 1, 2005 Release Date: November 29, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously contribute a secret to a group art project. Your secret can be a regret, fear, betrayal, desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything -- as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before. Be brief. Be legible. Be creative." It all began with an idea Frank Warren had for a community art project. He began handing out postcards to strangers and leaving them in public places -- asking people to write down a secret they had never told anyone and mail it to him, anonymously. The response was overwhelming. The secrets were both provocative and profound, and the cards themselves were works of art -- carefully and creatively constructed by hand. Addictively compelling, the cards reveal our deepest fears, desires, regrets, and obsessions. Frank calls them "graphic haiku," beautiful, elegant, and small in structure but powerfully emotional. As Frank began posting the cards on his website, PostSecret took on a life of its own, becoming much more than a simple art project. It has grown into a global phenomenon, exposing our individual aspirations, fantasies, and frailties -- our common humanity. Every day dozens of postcards still make their way to Frank, with postmarks from around the world, touching on every aspect of human experience. This extraordinary collection brings together the most powerful, personal, and beautifully intimate secrets Frank Warren has received -- and brilliantly illuminates that human emotions can be unique and universal at the same time.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 240 more reviews...
  Post Secrets September 15, 2008 I have read each of the post secret books and just love them. Highly entertaining!
  hooked September 9, 2008 I am so hooked on postsecret. This book is great...of course you can always just go to the website & read postsecret for free.
  I love PostSecret but..... September 7, 2008 I love PostSecret and I love what Frank has done with the project. In a world where people are hated and looked down upon for being different, the website makes you realize that there's others out there just like you. With the same secrets as you. You feel connected to others.
With that said, I think Frank could have done a better job with his first book. I opened it thinking it was going to be full of secrets I haven't seen before but instead it was secrets that had already been posted on the site. 95% of them were repeats for me. For Frank to take something that I already saw for free and try to charge me to read them again I thought was a rip off. I'm glad I read it while sitting in a big comfy chair at Barnes and Noble. Don't buy the book but I urge others to keep visiting the website.
  You can't resist picking this up August 24, 2008 Finally, after having this on my wish list for forever, I finally bought it. This will be a great coffee table book. I loved the post card artwork and the layout of this book. This is more of an art book than a book meant for just revealing secrets. Don't let this deter you from reading it, though. While the words may be few, they can run the gammit of making you laugh out loud, to making you empathize, to making you cry. It's a powerful book. Both the postcard art and words are artwork in themselves. I think it's so interesting, it will be hard for anyone to resist taking it off your coffee table to flip through. I'm glad I bought it. Plus, someone slipped their own admission into the book I purchased, which I thought was pretty cool. (Gasp, I did not buy it from Amazon, although I recommend you do because I paid the full price for it at Barnes and Noble.)
  PostSecret:Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives August 4, 2008 PostSecret allows everyone the ability to put their innermost thoughts and feelings that they may not be able to share with others into written form to share them with the world. The secrets are a mixture of happy, sad, silly, hopeful-every possible emotion much like life. If you read this book expect to feel every emotion possible!
|
|
|
 Powered by Associate-O-Matic
|  | |
|