PS: The original Oblique Strategies deck is still available from Brian's website. I've had these on for a long time now and they never fail to entertain or inspire. You can even add your own quotes to that list or make up your own list of creativity tips. Oblique Strategy is a concept developed by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt to help artists overcome creative blocks through party thinking.
Eno and his friend, painter and multimedia artist Peter Schmidt made their Oblique Strategies cards in late 1974. Oblique strategies pdf Text by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt Click here for a new option Open Mac App Store to buy and download the app.
(assuming that you have notifications enabled in preferences | customization | display) I say partial credit because his famous Oblique Strategies: Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas cards, now available as a free Android and iPhone app or on this website, were predated by Yoko Ono’s instruction cards in the mid-1960’s. This will override the default built in notifications. You should get a sometimes cryptic but always thoughtful random oblique quote the next time you open a project file. Then save the attached text file to that folder.
Just type that path into the Windows search bar and it should take you to that folder. Brian Eno wants you to play with his deck of cards made for stimulating ideas, used by MGMT and Coldplay. To check these out, simply copy the attached ProjectOpenNotification.txt file to this folder:
(We added affirmations to the startup toast notifications last year) I've put them into a text file that you can conveniently use to replace the stock built in ones in Cakewalk. This idea has found adherents and I’ve heard of real people attempting to.
Eno with the help of a friend and teacher Peter Schmidt who was working on something similar himself, combined their resources and created a box of cards designed to take an artist out of their funk and make them try something. This was a novel where a man decides to give over all decision making in his life to the roll of a dice. But in this TED talk, Harford talks about something that has probably eluded most of us: Oblique Strategies. Originally released as a deck of cards with 500 quotes, these have grown and been updated. Sometime in the ’80s I remember reading The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart.
I recommend checking out Brian Eno's OBLIQUE STRATEGIES quotes. Having a creative block Brian Eno wants you to play with his deck of cards made for stimulating ideas, used by MGMT and Coldplay.