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For the world to be interesting, you have to be
manipulating it all the time.

~ Brian Eno
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Charles and Ray Eames, House of
Cards
1952
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Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, Oblique
Strategies
1975
Oblique Strategies (subtitled over one hundred
worthwhile dilemmas) is a set of published cards
created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt first
published in 1975, and is now in its fifth, open
ended, edition.
Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark
which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma
situation. Some are specific to music composition;
others are more general.
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Brian Eno, Peter Schmidt, Oblique
Strategies
1975
From the introduction to the 2001 edition: "These
cards evolved from separate observations of the
principles underlying what we were doing.
Sometimes they were recognised 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, or by drawing a single card from
the shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a
working situation. In this case the card is trusted
even if its appropriateness is quite unclear..."
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Chris Jordan, Paper Bags
2007
1.14 million brown paper supermarket bags used in
the U.S. every hour.
It's piles of paper bags, 1.14 million of them, the
number used in the US every hour. Artist Chris
Jordan has found a way to visualize the statistics
of our over-consumptive society which penetrates
in a way that hearing the bald statistics just
doesn't.
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Chris Jordan, Paper Bags
2007