Frank and Fearless: A Life in Boxing

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Post Secret Kazakhstan", a trilingual (Russian, Kazakh, and English) project was launched in January 2011 by a Peace Corps volunteer inspired by Frank Warren's original. It also has no official affiliation. 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. My favourite part about working at Lego Land is destroying all of the buildings that little kids create." In 6th grade I read something about, father's molesting their daughters. So, I stopped hugging my dad for over a year. I love my father. I can't imagine how much I hurt him." More 'PostSecrets' Revealed, in Book Form". National Public Radio. 2005-12-10 . Retrieved 2011-12-16.

There is also a "Postsecret Korea", though there is no reference to credit or endorsement of Warren.a b Meyers, Michelle. "PostSecret shuts down iphone app due to abusive posts". CNet . Retrieved 2 April 2013. Hirst, Ellen Jean (1 September 2013). "Search turns up nothing after anonymous postcard tip of dumped body". chicagotribune.com. Tribune. Archived from the original on 27 May 2019 . Retrieved 17 March 2014.

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. The second-to-worst PostSecret book. The term for most of these secrets today is "vaguebooking." Other secrets are targeted at a single person, as if the creator were more interested in shaming that one person rather than bearing their soul. Some aren't even secrets so much as they are, "Look at me!" statements or competitive introversion. PostSecret Archive [15] was a searchable database that allowed users to search all previous PostSecret posts by date or by keyword. It is no longer in operation. An archived version is available. [16] Media [ edit ] In April 2008, Warren teamed up with 1-800-suicide to answer some of these anonymous cries for help through peer run crisis hotlines on college campuses. [4] The would-be assassin didn’t miss. The bullet passed through a lung, but bypassed an artery and missed Warren’s heart by millimetres. A former client, troubled boxer Terry Marsh, was tried and acquitted on a 10-2 majority verdict. “So there were two people convinced it was him…” shrugs Warren. However, while he declares “I know with cast-iron certainty who it was”, he seems not to have shared this perhaps crucial information with, say, the police.

Boxing faces a fight for its soul

We thought that we would look cool to the high schoolers (through osmosis, evidently, as it was a secret questionnaire). However, Warren seems not to favour too many people and the score-settling escalates to industrial levels akin to Father Ted’s Golden Cleric acceptance speech. Boxing promoter rivals, especially father and son Barry and Eddie Hearn (“Eddie’s hardly had to do it the hard way”), are shown no mercy. Neither are boxers Barry McGuigan (“another who disappointed me”) and Chris Eubank, whose reputation Warren destroys with one hideous anecdote, while Frank Bruno’s ex-wife Laura is “an absolute pain”. Mt grandmother used to mail me postcards like this (blank ones) so I would write to her. She died seven years ago, and I just found this one in the attic. I'm sorry, Grandma. ...I should have written more." McNichol, Tom (2007). "PostSecret". TIME.Com's First Annual Blog Index. Time . Retrieved 17 March 2014.

Frank Warren has compiled his secret postcards into several volumes now but this book was my first experience with them. My son gave it to me for Christmas - a friend recommended it to him and he knew this was something I would find intriguing. I did! I loved it. This book is geared toward sharing the secrets of younger people. Not sure exactly how he knew the senders age group but I can see from the photo and topics that he might have made a fairly accurate guess. From August 3, 2015 to September 2017, an exhibit [18] at the National Postal Museum features more than 500 postcards submitted to PostSecret. This was my first PostSecret book and I just had to get more once I finished this one. I really loved it. I am actually thinking of startin to send my own post cards to PostSecret. This book made me feel really think. For some reason, My Secret made me want to go on some huge Art spree and just do whatever makes me happy.I still look at your 3rd grade picture and think what might have happened...If I hadn't moved 825 miles away."

I have great difficulty dismissing the possibility that the submitters for this book were not operating under similar motives. If you can't read the text on this blurry photo, it says: "In November 2004, I printed 3000 postcards inviting people to share a secret with me..." I've been listening to music I normally wouldn't (Jazz, Norah Jones), reading books I definitley wouldn't usually (Watchmen, Scanwich, GirlLand), and all around trying to make myself happy rather than others. I seem to be pretty selfless sometimes which can put me in bad situations. There is also an art-project called SecretumDoor, [21] where one can find original secrets of 2005, both in Russian and English. The story of my life would be a bloody sight shorter if the man who tried to murder me outside the Broadway Theatre in Barking on a winter's evening in 1989 had succeeded. He nearly did.

The 1973 book Variable Piece 4: Secrets by the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler (one of many works in his Variable Piece series) was a compilation of nearly 1800 secrets written by random people. Will Frank Warren Spill His Secrets? Bring Your Questions for the “PostSecret” Guy from Freakonomics Blog (hosted by New York Times) PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives (December 1, 2005) ( ISBN 0-06-089919-0) [19] Frank Warren has spent forty years working with boxing's most colourful and controversial characters. In his long-awaited autobiography, he reflects on the battles he had to win to reach the top and remain there, not least the battle to stay alive after he was shot at point-blank range in an attempted assassination in 1989.