The Oblique Strategies...

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http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/

The deck itself had its origins in the discovery by Brian Eno that both he and his friend Peter Schmidt (a British painter whose works grace the cover of "Evening Star" and whose watercolours decorated the back LP cover of Eno's "Before and After Science" and also appeared as full-size prints in a small number of the original releases) tended to keep a set of basic working principles which guided them through the kinds of moments of pressure - either working through a heavy painting session or watching the clock tick while you're running up a big buck studio bill. Both Schmidt and Eno realized that the pressures of time tended to steer them away from the ways of thinking they found most productive when the pressure was off. The Strategies were, then, a way to remind themselves of those habits of thinking - to jog the mind.

I'm quite fascinated with this at the moment, though I'm too headachy and bogged down to do much with it. You're supposed to use them when you're in a creative block. They even have an online link to a 'virtual' deck. http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Consult.html

Anyhow, I'm just posting this on here in case anyone knows anything else about them, or has seen or used them before. Curiosity and all. Seems like a cool thing to have, at any rate.