I get a lot of positivity in the fact that people are using the wide technological scope of the internet for interesting stuff. It makes the whole “celebrity gossip/twitter/boring live journal” part of the internet fair - like there is some sort of balance in the world where interesting people can use the internet for their art or commentary.
Post Secret is one of those sites. The idea of the page is an ongoing community art project in which people send in postcards to an anonymous address and tell secrets that they’ve never told before. It could be fake, it could be real; that is the beauty of it. Like those blind items in the rag papers, you try and guess the validity of the celebrity mom who gives her daughter coke while also figuring out of the author just made it up. None of that matters though, as it’s fun to pretend, especially if there is a hope of truth within it.
Some of the postcards are telling in their bluntness (“I’m 20 and I don’t know if I am an alcoholic or the typical college binge drinker… and it scares me” printed over a picture of college age girls drinking), their greatness (a picture of the Reuters logo and the admission of the final employee of the design company - the logo was inspired by a toilet flushing). It can be anything that the author wants it to be, but it always is intriguing to look at. Isn’t that always the point of art? People can go to college and take a class on art history, get accomplished in being able to read and interpret art and none of it matters because if the untrained eye gets an emotional pull from it, it still has meaning.
