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John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social · 1d

Mr @johncoulthart.com on @fruishfruish.bsky.social's latest, and it's origins
www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

Ambagious Tactics is a box containing 120 small white cards, most of which show a short aphorism, suggestion or piece of advice for the creatively-minded. A few cards at the end of the box feature …

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Michelle Olley @michelleolley.bsky.social · 1d

I love my box of mind tricks - thank you Ali and thank you Arts Labs!

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 1d

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

[email protected]

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 1d

Now that most of the contributors have their copies. We are making the rest of sets of this imited edtion project available to buy.

Details here:

[email protected]

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

Image shows a box of cards / a tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 4d

Paving slab cave arts echos

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 5d

Plastic Sauron muss be vex

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 5d

walking on blue

broken star
beached dolphin

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John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com · 6d

In today's post: AMBAGIOUS TACTICS: An Oblique Tribute Act. A homage/continuation of Peter Schmidt & Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies whose first edition was published 50 years ago. Big thanks to @fruishfruish.bsky.social for asking me to be a part of this, and congrats for wrangling the project.

A cardboard box with a log stamped on its surface: "Arts Lab -- Northampton".

Looking down on the black textured lid of a box of cards. Two grey triangles (side by side, one pointing up, the other pointing down) are printed in the centre of the lid.

The opened box showing its lid separate from the interior. Also the stack of over 100 small cards which the box contains. The uppermost card shows the words "Small clouds can obscure the sun". The credit beneath this reads "Peter Schmidt (From The Thoughts Behind The Thoughts, selected by his daughter Valentine Schmidt)"

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 8d

Shardcore giving you a sneak preview of some if our Oblique Strategy tribute cards from Alan Moore, Thurston Moore and @leahmoore.bsky.social as well as from
@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social
Steve Albini,
@robinince.bsky.social
And others...

shardcore @shardcore.org · 8d

delighted to receive my set of Ambagious Tactics cards from @fruishfruish.bsky.social and the good people of Northampton Arts Lab.

my card is in excellent company!

(also, the cat approves)

Ambagious Tactics: an Oblique Tribute Act a choir of over
100 versatile enigmas

2025 marks the 50-year anniversary of the first appearance of Oblique Strategies by Peter Schmidt and Brian Eno. Northampton Arts Lab decided to mark this by creating a deck made up of many Ambagious Tactics from over one hundred different people. Some of them are connected to Eno and Schmidt, and some are folk who regularly used the decks. Others we asked for different reasons.

a card which reads:

Steal carefully

- shardcore

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Su Jacko @sujacko.bsky.social · 13d

How bloody marvelous!
My Ambagious Tactics card amongst some incredibly talented people.
Should you want a box to provoke inspiration, creativity, silly-sausageness:
fruishon.co.uk/artslab/

#AmbagiousTactics
#obliquestrategies #50yearsof

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 10d

Jeff"s given you a sneak preview into some of the collaborators on Ambagious Tactics, showing cards by Alan Moore, Judy Nylon, Robert Fripp, Melinda Gebbie and Jim Jarmusch from our Oblique Strategies tribute act.

Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

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Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social · 10d

This is my contributor's copy of Ambiguous Tactics celebrating 50 years of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies. Isn't it gorgeous! Read more about it here. fruishon.co.uk

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 12d

Parceling up copies of Ambagious Tactics for the remaining contributors of the 123 people who gave a contribution.

To reserve a copy of Ambagious Tactics, email us here:
[email protected]

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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely to be a contributor alongside lots of wonderful people to this 50th anniversary tribute to Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
If you're interested in getting hold of a box of Ambagious Tactics email the address below for price and payment details:
[email protected]

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 17d

@dark-shark.bsky.social

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 18d

If you're interested in getting hold of a copy of Ambagious Tactics email us at at the address below and we'll get back to you with price and payment details in the next little while.

ambagious_tactics AT fruishon.co.uk

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 20d

Finally, our Northampton ArtsLab Oblique Strategies tribute act, Ambagious Tactics has arrived!

Celebrating 50 years of Eno and Schmidt's deck.

Will start getting them out to contributors over the next few days.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 18d

Maybe read it out loud. It might give you a few clues....Or it might scare the neighbours.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 18d

That's not what the instruction said! There is an address.
That's to make sure it doesn't get lost.
I get tones of emails.
I found your request and I have filed you with the other expressions of interest.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 18d

If you're interested in getting hold of a copy of Ambagious Tactics email us at at the address below and we'll get back to you with price and payment details in the next little while.

ambagious_tactics AT fruishon.co.uk

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 20d

Finally, our Northampton ArtsLab Oblique Strategies tribute act, Ambagious Tactics has arrived!

Celebrating 50 years of Eno and Schmidt's deck.

Will start getting them out to contributors over the next few days.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 19d

@andrewoneillcomedy.bsky.social
@robinince.bsky.social
@wildtwin.bsky.social
@ambermoore.bsky.social
@leahmoore.bsky.social
@johnhiggs.bsky.social
@shardcore.org

Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 20d

Finally, our Northampton ArtsLab Oblique Strategies tribute act, Ambagious Tactics has arrived!

Celebrating 50 years of Eno and Schmidt's deck.

Will start getting them out to contributors over the next few days.

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Alistair Fruish @fruishfruish.bsky.social · 20d

Finally, our Northampton ArtsLab Oblique Strategies tribute act, Ambagious Tactics has arrived!

Celebrating 50 years of Eno and Schmidt's deck.

Will start getting them out to contributors over the next few days.