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A set of cards, each containing a large modifying word or phrase, such as "Amplify", "Extend", "More Sutble", "Opposite", "Bigger", "Wilder", "Crazier", etc.
Each person in the meeting is dealt a handful of cards, and places them face down in front of him.
One person gets the ball rolling by coming
up with a name.
She says the name, then draws a card, and flashes it at a random person. Let's say she says "Porcupine". The card she draws says "Opposite". The person she points at must come up with a word that is the opposite of Porcupine (as quickly as possible). That person then draws a new card and points at a new person.
So the idea travels around the room, mutating in random ways...
The next card I drew after "Opposite", incidentally, was "Amputate."
Eno, Schmidt: Oblique Strategies
http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/
A fifth edition just got published. [jutta, Apr 01 2002]
Roger van Oech: Creative Whack Pack
http://www.amazon.c...0793589/halfbakery/
For some reason, I really like Oblique Strategies and really loathe this one, but it is the other prominent instance of the genre. [jutta, Apr 01 2002]
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Sounds a bit like Brian Eno's "Oblique Strategies" card deck that he used to guide his creative pathways in the studio. Each card has a strategy for changing creative direction in the midst of a project. |
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HEY! I was gonna say that! |
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wish I had a £1 for every time I read that, thumb. |
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Hm. I'd wager the idea won't be traveling any further than the person who has to come up with "the opposite of porcupine." |
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(which is a great name for an album) |
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The opposite of "porcupine" is "Porsche" in that, with Porsches, all the pricks are on the inside. |
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The opposite of porcupine is predator, such as a cat. The porcupine is a gentle, plant-eating creature that dully plods around at will because it has a passive, built-in external defense: the detachable quills. A predator such as a cat, however, is soft and supple but with an active defense system of claws, teeth, heightened perception and intelligence. A cat can afford to be pillow-like because it does have some prickly parts on the inside that it can bring forth at will. Am I or am I not the Lord of the Smarty Pants? |
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like I said, spineless wonder |
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I like bris's answer best so far. (What's the next card drawn?) |
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What you do to the leg of a goal tender at the javelin toss. |
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"Banana who?"
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Banana."
"Banana who?"
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Banana."
"Banana who?"
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Banana."
"Banana who?"
"Knock knock."
"Who's there?"
"Orange."
"Orange who?"
"Orange you glad I didn't say banana?"
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UB]: In color-wheel-ese, it would be "blue" |
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