 Oblique Strategies. As devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt. I must say, this is not bad. It seems to sort out your brain when in trouble. Great for brainstormings. But you can always try it at home.Brian Eno:The deck [of cards] 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. To be honest, I actually do find them helpful from time to time. Some of those cards come in handy sometimes. Anyway: trying to find my way through the jungle of internet links, I believe I came across the original site: The Oblique Strategies Website. Then, there's an HTML version of the card deck; an absolutely fabulous Flash version is here (or is it just another example that Flash doesn't work?); and here are lots of links. Try them out. It's fun. Really. "These cards evolved from our separate observations of the principles underlying what we are doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of posibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from a shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case the card is trusted even if it appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident." And I am using the Mac OSX version of Oblique Strategies by Curved Space... Update: Already running into trouble here. Have a look at TELEDYN's entry.
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