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. I have picked up this book many different times when in various bookstores and have flipped through it bit by bit. Frank has traveled the world sharing secrets and stories from australia to the white house. Choose your favorite postcard, have the text changed, the postcard is truly customized for you to look like your brand of real estate. Frank has received over 1 million secrets in his mailbox with more arriving every day but sunday. Postsecret is an ongoing community art project where people from around the world mail me their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. It was blank on one side, and on the other instructions telling them to write an anonymous secret and mail it to him. He requested that the secrets submitted be truthful and not something that the person has ever told anyone before. Its no secret that printing directmail postcards is one of the most profitable ways to market your business. But abbotts prose style goes down so effortlessly, and the story is so compelling in a dontthinktoocloselyaboutit sort of way, that young readers will hardly notice. The postcards have been curated for five new york times bestselling books and have been exhibited at the museum of modern art and the american visionary art museum. Postsecret is the largest advertisementfree blog in the world. Still, there are secrets to postcard success that marketing pros employ to boost response rates and profit margins campaign after campaign. Check out more artist books, handmade books, and art journaling on my blog at.
Todays edition of ted weekends on the huffington post explores his talk. Secrets can take many forms they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful. To date, i have received over 1,000,000 revealing the humor and humanity. Posters for the anchor line book of postcards henri matisse book of postcards new york travel posters book of postcards views of venice book of postcards paintings of new york book of postcards. Some upset, some inspire, some make us think, some make us happy. Postcard secrets is an interesting way for people to share their secrets with the world while still keeping their identity secret. The postsecret phenomenon began when frank warren invited strangers to anonymously mail him a secret on a postcard. Frank warren started by soliciting secrets personally. Get your hands on a customizable book postcard from zazzle. He has shared these postsecrets on his awardwinning blog. In cd 3 ill show you the exact campaign i ran to create 1,757 buyers in 30 days and more importantly how you can do the same. Stretched over a full lifespan, the secrets expose the meaningful ways. 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.
Ive seen people include a photograph, a collage, drawings, he said. Shockingly, over a million people from around the world did. A fascinating, addictively compelling look at peoples deepest secrets, told through anonymously submitted postcards. Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives by warren, frank isbn. Postsecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Keeper of secrets private secrets shared via postcard.
Selling secrets postcards from printerbees come with a graphics designer to set up your real estate marketing pieces. Make your own handmade book from nothing but postcardsindex cards and tape. Oct 09, 2007 the postcards have been curated for five new york times bestselling books and have been exhibited at the museum of modern art and the american visionary art museum. Find a large selection of sizes and shapes for your postcard needs. A decade ago, frank warren began a community art project that captured the popular imagination and became a worldwide obsession. 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. What id like to do now is share with you a very special handful of secrets from that collection, starting with this one. Frank warren, the founder of, shares some of the halfmillion secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards. In the company of secrets book 1 this book reminded me of the old saying, oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. Since 2004, hundreds of thousands of anonymous contributors with something to get off their chest have sent postcards to the website postsecret.
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. Frank warren started postsecret as a community art project where he invited total strangers to anonymously mail in their secrets on a homemade postcard. After all, a home usually represents blood, sweat and years that you spent working and trying to make enough money just to be able to buy a roof over your head. When olivia, a naive young woman apprenticed to lecherous chef mallard decides she cannot remain at her post at lanshire house because she will never yield to him, lady charlotte offers her an alternative. In this tedtalk, frank warren, the founder of shares some of the halfmillion secrets that strangers have mailed him on postcards over the years since he started collecting secrets. Postsecret is a community art project where people release their secrets by anonymously mailing them on a homemade postcard.
Extraordinary confessions from ordinary lives warren, frank isbn. This talk was presented at an official ted conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page. Here are dozens of titles, selected by ted speakers and divided into 6 categories, for the people on your list. One of the cards below i believe came from one of my friends. Frank warren is the creator of the postsecret project, a blog full of secrets anonymously shared via postcard. Postcards are a different way to reach people, and they work best when audiences are targeted locally and nationally. Selected secrets are then posted on the postsecret website, or used for postsecrets books or museum exhibits. Inuit art from cape dorset book of postcards glasgow to the world. Ted weekends explores the catharsis of revealing secrets april 20, 20 in 2004, frank warren began a massive undertaking. Real secrets, shared by real people equals real opportunity to tell a story that resonates with real readers. Below, find two essays all about the power of secrets. Each of these ted talks for writers presented a different aspect of the art and impact of story in our lives. There is a postsecret album, a postsecret ted talk.
Aug 14, 2011 make your own handmade book from nothing but postcardsindex cards and tape. There is a postsecret album, a postsecret ted talk and a postsecret play on tour. And sometimes afterwards ill stick around and sign books and take photos with. Hes just published his fourth book about them, a lifetime of secrets, and theyre on his web site. All of the postcards in this set were considered for the new book. Hula sister postcard winslow homer book of postcards life on the land. Tedtalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and.
Half a million secrets at ted2012, warren shared some of these secrets, showing the impact that the revealing of a secret can have. Real estate marketing is our forte and our marketing is current, relevant and timely. The book s 358 pages is about 150 pages longer than it needed to be. Interview with frank warren, founder of postsecret. Frank warren is the creator and founder of this project that has taken the world by storm. You can see my wife struggling to stack a brick of postcards on a pyramid of over a halfmillion secrets.
I really liked all the secrets here and wish i could have shared them all in the book but this is nearly as good. Frank warren is the founder and curator of the postsecret project. Frank warren, the founder of postsecret, started with a crazy idea. Today, there are six bestselling postsecret books, multiple museum exhibitions, and frank warrens immersive multimedia postsecret live. 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. I love the one describing the secret act of hiding poetry for strangers to find and the one postcard explaining, elephantear pasta. Instead it falls more into the category of art or coffee table book and generally isnt something that one reads from cover to cover. Selling secrets postcard campaign no additional fees for. In november 2005, he made 3000 postcards with simple instructions.