"In January, 1975, the musician Brian Eno and the painter Peter Schmidt released a set of flash cards they called 'Oblique Strategies.' Friends since meeting at art school, in the late sixties, they had long shared guidelines that could pry apart an intellectual logjam, providing options when they couldn’t figure out how to move forward. The first edition consisted of a hundred and fifteen cards. They were black on one side with an aphorism or an instruction printed on the reverse. Eno’s first rule was 'Honour thy error as a hidden intention.' Others included 'Use non-musicians' and 'Tape your mouth.'”
New Yorker
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