the intimacy revolution

I am a committed reader of the PostSecret blog every Sunday afternoon. This Sunday, I followed a link to the myspace blog about PostSecret and found a post by the authors of Not Quite What I was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. Rachel Fershleiser, one of the two authors said this about projects like hers and PostSecret,

"So many of the recent projects we admire - Found Magazine, Mortified, To-Do List —involve sharing the mundanities of your everyday life with perfect strangers, and elevating them to art in the process. Call it the intimacy revolution, the democratization of media, the user-generated age, or anything else—Frank Warren is one of its true heroes. We're just proud to be a part of making sure every individual is heard and valued."

I love that idea that these projects are part of an intimacy revolution. I'm generally a fan of the democratization of media, because there is a lot of crap being produced in the name of making money right now. Youtube is one of the more successful forces of change in the media. However, these projects like PostSecret and Not Quite What I was Planning and Learning to Love You More (a book which I just checked out from the library) are part of the intimacy revolution ... I'm going to be thinking about this more today, because I really like this concept.