Hidden Lives Exposes Your ‘Inner’ Life

Sydney-based Hidden Lives founded by Justin McMurray offers a fresh take on self-expression.

Hidden Lives describes itself as “a creative project that seeks to unveil people’s hidden lives”. It asks users to look past their ‘outer’ life filled with day-to-day activities and to do’s and explore their ‘inner’ life, the things that you think but seldom say. It achieves this by prompting users to answer a series of triggers such as: “When I look in the mirror I see…”, “My greatest fear is…”, “I want to be remembered for…”

There is rawness in the responses. They sum it up perfectly on the site identifying the responses as “uniquely personal and yet undeniably universal”.

Hidden Lives provides a refreshing alternative to the big social networks and blogging platforms (although the site doesn’t appear to currently support RSS feeds). They aim to become “a unique collaborative web artwork brimming with intimate, beautiful and moving self-expressions from people all over the world”, which they certainly seem on their way to achieving. They also plan to exhibit and publish submitted material.

Below is the launch video.