ILX's Oblique Strategy for the Day

3 January 2010:

Make a sudden, destructive, unpredictable action; incorporate.

Uh, I just quit my job and talked to a lawyer about starting up a business that manufactures giant "mirror cubes". These hollow "mirror cubes" would be covered in mirrors on the interior, so that when you step inside of them and apply a light, it reflects in all directions and casts freaky infinite shadows everywhere. Also there are different colors to choose from, and a strobe light. The company will be called Infinite Mirror Cube, Inc.

Now what?

this thread is going to kill. keep it up WmC

whoa dude mirror cube

ZS, if the mirror cubes take off, invest in epilepsy drugs and research.

Methodology for this thread: I roll percentile dice to determine whether to pick a card from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th editions or the GC aphorisms. I'm going to overrule the dice if they don't come up GC at least once a week.

4 January 2010:

Not building a wall; making a brick

classic

5 January 2010:

What mistakes did you make last time?

6 January 2010:

What is the reality of the situation?

I'm in my pajamas?

why do i love the logic of oblique strategies? because i am a dork

7 January 2010:

Sometimes God hides.

8 January 2010:

Always the first steps

9 January 2010:

Ghost echoes

10 January 2010:

Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle.

11 January 2010:

Is there something missing?

haha oh shit

12 January 2010:

Each part does the work of that part, and no other.

http://twitter.com/oblique

13 January 2010:

Turn it upside down

14 january: Love to hear percussion?

wtf gukbe: the strategy for tomorrow is already here today?
mirror cubez!

I'll post the one for the 14th on the 14th. I don't know wtf Gukbe's playing at.

My original concept for this thread, about six months ago or so, was to post a Guitar Craft aphorism every day with the hope of maybe debating them, whether they're actually good life advice or relevant beyond the narrow purview of Learnin' the Gitbox the Fripp Way. But it didn't seem like a thread with legs.

one of the dudes in my band is always talking about the league of crafty guitarists and the convoluted shit they would work on. perhaps you could pick the one with the most potential for debate and then see what happens?

I don't know wtf Gukbe's playing at.

like I was the only one who immediately when there

gukbe be ruinin your thread six months in the planning

like I was the only one who immediately when there

this seems like English, but...?

now you're helpin him

15 january 2010:

gukbe be ruinin your thread six months in the planning

posting the year makes it seem official! soz for ruining your thread.

you didn't, conrad was concern-trolling

excellent! i am enjoying this, though this one has led to Gloria Estefan bouncing around my head all day.

not real trollin just makin fun of u

that's cold shit conrad. suddenly the internet doesn't seem so nice anymore.

WHOMP

13th January 2*1* - Tomorrow's another day.

wait so we turned it upside down on the first of the year, then turned it upside down again on the 13th. doesn't that mean it's rightside up now? what if i miss being upside down :(

or maybe it's like one of those glass frames with dyed sand inside, and every time you turn it upside down it creates a new pattern of sand, and it's like life because you can never recapture exactly what you once had.

you can buy those sand things at Knott's Berry Farm, or at least you could in 1993.

14 January 2010:

Remove a restriction

I wonder if citing the ilx oblique strategy of the day would cover me in traffic court…

11 January 2010:

Is there something missing, officer?

15 January 2010:

Relaxation is necessary tension.
Tension is unnecessary tension.

16 January 2010:

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

17 January 2010:

The problem with knowing what we want is we just might get it.

Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might be repeating a lame old proverb.

Yeah, I really hate this one. It's from Fripp, not Eno.

18 January 2010:

Give way to your worst impulse

uh oh.

My actual worse impulse, or what I currently think is the worst?

You gotta figure that part out yourself.

mine would be "talk too much about self," which is my usual m.o., so...done!

that's the only speed i got.

24 March 2012:

Towards the insignificant

Z S, 1983 - present

Towards the insignificant

abandoned Buzz Lightyear tag-line

25 March 2012:

Tape your mouth

so Sunday is roleplaying day

26 March 2012:

Give the game away

http://www.spiralknights.com/

27 March 2012:

Consult other sources

— promising
— unpromising

28 March 2012:

Simple subtraction

Subtract me from work = I wish

29 March 2012:

Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics

this might be my favorite strategy so far.

30 March 2012:

Breathe more deeply

ooh another good one

trying this one right now

31 March 2012:

Only one element of each kind

for those of you with 3 or more children, that means you have to choose only one son and only one daughter. i'm sorry.

This is going to make interior decorating very interesting or very frustrating

1 April 2012:

A line has two sides

O_O

cool!

2 April 2012:

One the search is in progress, something will be found

3 April 2012:

Display your talent

4 April 2012:

Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element

5 April 2012:

How would you have done it?

6 April 2012:

Turn it upside down

¿ʇɐɥʍ ʍou 'ʎɐʞo

Turn it upside down twice

turn it upside down....then shake it really hard til all the money falls out of its pockets

8 April 2012:

Remember. Those quiet evenings.

10 April 2012:

Don't stress one thing more than another

stress all the things!

Ha, the last 2 were most pertinent for the extremely stressful 4-day moving house I just did over easter.

11 April 2012:

Listen in total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly

11 april 2012

minute incriments; it can't only go backwards

12 April 2012:

Do the words need changing?

Do the sheets need changing? Yes.

14 April 2012:

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

15 April 2012:

Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance

16 April 2012:

What context would look right?

Ask people to work against their better judgement.

capitalist system has been pulling this strategy on us for hundreds of years already, amirite brothers & sisters?

17 April 2012:

Reverse

?tahw woN

Double reverse!

1 May 2012:

Simple subtraction

(one to mark proximity to #10,000,000)