Tamasindo Secret & Technology

is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

(via twitter)
They had a display at Barnes and Noble. It was cool! It included instructions to send in your own secret on a postcard. @makeupforlifee

(via email)
I found a secret in a book. I loved it so much I kept it in my wallet. When my wallet was stolen I was more upset about losing someone’s secret than I was about my credit cards.

The new book is available from bookstores everywhere* and online.

Thanks for making our secrets #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List.

* Wal-Mart stores continues to ban/reject all books.

Watch on the Today Show with Meredith Vieira.

Updated Event Schedule for 2009
(Use the facebook links to RSVP and for more details.)

Sold-Out
Boston University, Boston, MA
10-15-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139061063093

Lamar State College Port Arthur, TX
10-20-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104945624874

New
University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
10-22-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129388119876

New
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
10-23-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150839597615

New (Art Exhibit and Event)
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
10-25-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173816360228

New
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
10-26-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183513419936

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
10-27-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135654606109

New
Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
10-28-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=142710198912

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
11-04-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=54654889989

La Ciudad de las Ideas, Puebla, Mexico
11-07-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=123761684771

University of Texas at Arlington, TX
11-11-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107083078765

New
Stetson University, Deland, FL
11-12-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126952807077

Bradley University, Peoria, IL
11-17-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132997630852

Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, OK
11-19-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=101555234302

New
University of Scranton, Scranton, PA
11-30-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129923494471

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
12-04-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107469192412

New
Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ
12-07-09
Call for Details (480) 730-0205

New
Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO
12-09-09
Call for Details (800) 833-9327

Penn State Erie, Erie, PA
12-10-09
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109987144015

New
Book People, Austin, TX
12-12-09
Call for Details (512) 472-5050

Please give your friends a “heads-up” if I’m coming their way and consider becoming a fan on facebook to receive new schools and dates.

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Other Secret. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

One follower every day this week will win a new iPod nano (16G). Around noon Eastern Time just send tweets with – # – in the message. Send as many as you like. One winner will be randomly selected Monday through Friday. You do not need to live in the US to win. Use this link to join: Twitter

The Special Archives has commentary and holds over 90 postcards. Here is a sample:

This first set of postcards was posted shortly after the official start date of the Blog; February 2005.

Early on in the project I did not scan the cards. Instead, I placed them on the floor in my basement and took pictures of them. If you look carefully at some of the card backgrounds you can still see strips of white Berber carpet.

You may have seen some of these postcards in the first book. (Although you would not have seen the secret with the elephants. The publisher felt it should be kept out.)

Today I receive about 200 postcards everyday but in 2005 I did not receive nearly that many so on Sundays I was lucky if I could post ten new secrets.

—–Email Message—–

Dear Frank,

Today I went to the special archive of secrets as I pre-ordered the book about a month and a half ago. And there it was–my secret.

My secret reads: It hurts to do jazz hands after I cut myself, but the show must go on.

I sent you my secret several years ago shortly before coming to college. I am now a senior in college and a lot has changed. I am majoring in vocal music performance and specializing in opera rather than musical theatre, so no more jazz hands! But more importantly, I have stopped cutting and am on the road to stopping self injury totally. And even more importantly, I have used my experiences related to my secret to help the others who have the same secrets. . .

The postcards in this set were considered for Confessions on Life, Death and God and would have been included if the book had been extra long. Others were kept out by the publisher, for example, the Simpson’s image would have been nearly impossible to gain the rights to reproduce.

I really liked all the secrets here and wish I could have shared them all in the book but this is nearly as good.

I love the one describing the secret act of hiding poetry for strangers to find and the one postcard explaining, “elephant-ear pasta”.

I have a soft spot in my heart for libraries and was disappointed that I could not include the one from the librarian. Her secret reads like it could be the first line in a wonderful novel . . . that might be written and available from her library someday.

It’s great to be able to include the postcard that inspired the cover of the new book. This card had been used on the brochure for one of the traveling Art Exhibits and I think it works just as well on the book cover to capture the mystery and attraction our secrets hold.

Pre-order Confessions on Life, Death and God and see 80 more secrets along with more behind-the-scenes commentary here:
Special Archive

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 20th, 2009 at 9:22 pm and is filed under Other Secret. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

This Saturday, September 19th, at 11PM EST, there will be a live discussion of the new Sunday Secrets on Twitter.
Join us at #.

—–Email Message—–

Remember Toby, the truck driver who pledged a penny a mile to Hopeline? How did he do, Frank? I said I would match his contribution.

The Special Archives has commentary and holds over 90 postcards. Here is a sample:

This first set of postcards was posted shortly after the official start date of the Blog; February 2005.

Early on in the project I did not scan the cards. Instead, I placed them on the floor in my basement and took pictures of them. If you look carefully at some of the card backgrounds you can still see strips of white Berber carpet.

You may have seen some of these postcards in the first book. (Although you would not have seen the secret with the elephants. The publisher felt it should be kept out.)

Today I receive about 200 postcards everyday but in 2005 I did not receive nearly that many so on Sundays I was lucky if I could post ten new secrets.

—–Email Message—–

Dear Frank,

Today I went to the special archive of secrets as I pre-ordered the book about a month and a half ago. And there it was–my secret.

My secret reads: It hurts to do jazz hands after I cut myself, but the show must go on.

I sent you my secret several years ago shortly before coming to college. I am now a senior in college and a lot has changed. I am majoring in vocal music performance and specializing in opera rather than musical theatre, so no more jazz hands! But more importantly, I have stopped cutting and am on the road to stopping self injury totally. And even more importantly, I have used my experiences related to my secret to help the others who have the same secrets. . .

The postcards in this set were considered for Confessions on Life, Death and God and would have been included if the book had been extra long. Others were kept out by the publisher, for example, the Simpson’s image would have been nearly impossible to gain the rights to reproduce.

I really liked all the secrets here and wish I could have shared them all in the book but this is nearly as good.

I love the one describing the secret act of hiding poetry for strangers to find and the one postcard explaining, “elephant-ear pasta”.

I have a soft spot in my heart for libraries and was disappointed that I could not include the one from the librarian. Her secret reads like it could be the first line in a wonderful novel . . . that might be written and available from her library someday.

It’s great to be able to include the postcard that inspired the cover of the new book. This card had been used on the brochure for one of the traveling Art Exhibits and I think it works just as well on the book cover to capture the mystery and attraction our secrets hold.

Pre-order Confessions on Life, Death and God and see 80 more secrets along with more behind-the-scenes commentary here:
Special Archive

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm and is filed under Other Secret. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

is an ongoing community art project where people
mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

(via livejournal)

That’s just stupid. Everyone knows God sounds like Morgan Freeman.

—–Email Message—–

This secret stuck out to me, because I am a man who was raised as a girl too. I used to be absolutely mortified of anyone finding out. But my family, friends, and even coworkers know about my past now, and they’ve been way more kind and supportive than I ever could have hoped. I’m not any less of a man in their eyes, either.

(via twitter)

@jriedel08: “I visited the art exhibit in Bridgeport. loved it. Thank you so much for finally having an exhibit in CT.”

The new book will be on sale everywhere October 6th.
Pre-order your copy today & peek into the Archive.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 3:22 am and is filed under Other Secret. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.