Talk:Oblique Strategies

Trivia

An "X in popular culture" section is not a trivia section. The trivia tag should be removed. 219.88.55.27 (talk) 07:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Any disorganized and unselective list of miscellaneous facts is a trivia section, regardless of the name in the section title. Renaming a section from "Trivia" to "Pop culture references" does not make the content of that section stop being trivia. -- HiEv 10:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

QC

Questionable Content mentioned this, but there's no reference on the page. Was it here then deleted, or has it just never come up? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.161.92.230 (talk) 03:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

A single webcomic references is just too trivial for words. --CAVincent (talk) 09:11, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

See Also

The See Also section is confusing:

• Aleatoric music
• Fluxus § Event score
• I Ching
• Lateral thinking
• Water Yam (artist's book)
• More Dark Than Shark

I get "Lateral thinking", but what do the rest of these have to do with "Oblique Strategies". Shouldn't the relation be clear or explained before adding a link? Most (none?) of these pages reference Oblique Strategies. Or is the use of nonsensical links itself an oblique strategy? :-)

159.18.221.196 (talk) 16:40, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts

Peter (he was my uncle, my father's half-brother: they had the same mother) actually made a limited edition of 100 of the box sets mentioned. There's one in my parents' kitchen (I could supply a photograph if you want evidence). As far as I know they were all different, not just in the prints used but also the thoughts on them. SaintIX (talk) 07:21, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Credit Where Credit's Due

Oblique Strategies were a collaborative effort between Brian Eno and my uncle, Peter Schmidt. Brian first met Peter at Watford College of Art where he was a student in the class my uncle taught. They became firm friends and frequent collaborators, e.g. Before and After Science was subtitled 14 Songs. The album had ten songs and the first 1,000 copies included four prints of Peter's. Peter had also invented a new lithographic technique which he used on the cover of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (the technique changed the colours of the lithographs so that no two were identical). I don't know to what extent Oblique Strategies have been updated, but I'm sure at least some of my uncle's original contributions still survive, to the extent that any of them were individual ideas. As such I think it's a little unfair to refer to them as "Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies". They should either be referred to as "Oblique Strategies" or "Brian Eno's & Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies". A set of the cards was included in the V&A's David Bowie exhibition and that definitely credited Peter. I have a set myself, it's a black box with gold lettering. On one side of the lid it says "OBLIQUE STRATEGIES" and on the other "BRIAN ENO/PETER SCHMIDT". I didn't just want to rush in and edit the page as I thought you may have good reasons for referring to them as you do, but if not I respectfully ask that I may make those edits. SaintIX (talk) 07:59, 4 December 2024 (UTC)