It's been six weeks since my last confessional, um, I mean blog post. I really wanted to post every week and declare something the New Hotness each week, but alas, things have been a bit ('ow do ze nerds say eet) 'meh'. Partly it's my fault- I've been a bit depro and haven't really found anything worthwhile, so my standards for something/someone to declare the New Hotness have increased- and partly it's the environment, i.e. nothing out there has been interesting enough. It's not like I've been hiding away (at least not from new experiences)- I've been from Baton Rouge, LA, to East Lansing, MI, from Savannah, GA to Long Island, NYC - and I've seen every major movie release in the past six weeks, but nothing was ever amazing enough to pop up above the clouds. Some stuff came close, like sunrise on Tybee Island and breakfast by myself while reading my new book on Zen, or The Bourne Ultimatum, and some stuff made me laugh, like going to Lighthouse Beach on Fire Island with my former-future mother-in-law (as in she used to be my future mother-in-law) and seeing her bug out at all the naked people, and watching her belly-dance drunk at her daughter's birthday party. But over all, it's been a pretty mediocre time.
I'm doing my best to snap out of my slump, and something that always seems to help center me a little (unlike the Ocean which helps center me a lot, and makes my problems seem insignificant in it's vastness) is reading PostSecret. For those of you who don't know, PostSecret.blogspot.com is the current incarnation of a online community art project in which people anonymously mail in their secrets on postcards. Postcards reveal all sorts of secrets, both good and bad, serious and goofy. I have one friend, who like me, reads them every week, and another for whom the postcards are too poignant and emotional. I like reading them because some of them are happy and some of them are sad, but reading them makes me feel a little bit more human, like my problems aren't abnormal.
Typically, Frank Warren, the project's creator and curator, posts 20 postcards each week. However this week he posted a PostSecret video, the first that I'd ever seen.
For me it was an eye-opener. The combination of music and visuals really touched me, and following the Youtube link revealed a couple of other videos in which people had collected PostSecret cards (e.g. around Love) and put them to music. I think this is an absolutely superb idea. The addition of carefully-chosen music increases the poignancy.
In other Postsecret-related ramblings, I've started writing my own postcards. Not really secrets per se, though some of them are, but just my feelings about one person in my life for whom I have a number of unresolved feelings. It's helping me cope and helping me deal with some of the issues that I'm depressed about. So, for all the differing impact it's having on my life, PostSecret is the New Hotness.
I'm doing my best to snap out of my slump, and something that always seems to help center me a little (unlike the Ocean which helps center me a lot, and makes my problems seem insignificant in it's vastness) is reading PostSecret. For those of you who don't know, PostSecret.blogspot.com is the current incarnation of a online community art project in which people anonymously mail in their secrets on postcards. Postcards reveal all sorts of secrets, both good and bad, serious and goofy. I have one friend, who like me, reads them every week, and another for whom the postcards are too poignant and emotional. I like reading them because some of them are happy and some of them are sad, but reading them makes me feel a little bit more human, like my problems aren't abnormal.
Typically, Frank Warren, the project's creator and curator, posts 20 postcards each week. However this week he posted a PostSecret video, the first that I'd ever seen.
For me it was an eye-opener. The combination of music and visuals really touched me, and following the Youtube link revealed a couple of other videos in which people had collected PostSecret cards (e.g. around Love) and put them to music. I think this is an absolutely superb idea. The addition of carefully-chosen music increases the poignancy.
In other Postsecret-related ramblings, I've started writing my own postcards. Not really secrets per se, though some of them are, but just my feelings about one person in my life for whom I have a number of unresolved feelings. It's helping me cope and helping me deal with some of the issues that I'm depressed about. So, for all the differing impact it's having on my life, PostSecret is the New Hotness.