A Primer On Oblique Strategizing:I am sure as artists we have all come across those points in time where we creatively, physically or spiritually are exhausted. You find yourself sitting in front of your music gear, easel, or whatever looking at it as if you have never seen it before.I have recently discovered a fascinating little deck of cards developed by Brian Eno and his friend Peter Schmidt. This deck of cards is a collection of sayings, thoughts and ponderings to help break the creative roadblock and get one thinking again.Quote
"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."
Source .:Strategic Aquisitions:.There were three original versions of the deck, all released in a limited number to Eno's and Schmidt's friends. You can .:purchase:. a new edition from Brian Eno's website.Alternatively you can find online versions of the deck at .:Hyperreal.org:.
or as a Mac OSX widget .:Here:.
"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."
Source .:Strategic Aquisitions:.There were three original versions of the deck, all released in a limited number to Eno's and Schmidt's friends. You can .:purchase:. a new edition from Brian Eno's website.Alternatively you can find online versions of the deck at .:Hyperreal.org:.
or as a Mac OSX widget .:Here:.