Kingdubrock
Does anyone own or have they seen the images in this deck?
http://www.tarocchi.net/en/The_Restoration_of_the_Tarot.html
What seems compelling about this "restoration" deck is the attempt to recreate the colour scheme of the Conver deck, complete with the effects of fading and age.
From what little I can see, as they provide so few images (and google images doesnt turn much up either), there is a strange relationship between the lines and the dark green. They kind of appear to "vibrate" as if the dark grey used for the lines has the same or just slightly lighter shade or colour value as the green. It seems distracting at first, but then when you look at old decks the stencilling of colours sometimes hides the lines. So it makes some sense. The jet black of modern restorations and the primary colours gives many new decks a kind of cartoonish or even garish look imnsho (but I've gotten used to it).
Oddly they claim that they arrived at the precise colours through an anonymous individual who uses a psychic process called "radiesthesia".
The thing about these folks that niggles at me though is somewhere they make an allusion to another modern recreation deck that "looks almost identical" but theirs is made so that there is no copyright claims or something like that. Given that it has the "Camoin egg" and it does like the JC deck i have to assume they are referring to that deck.
So I am getting a vibe that there is something not quite on the "up and up" with these folks and was wondering, as I said, if anyone has seen the deck, but also if my vibe is justified in some way.
Lastly can SOMEONE tell me what is up with the egg? Where did Jodorowsky and Camoin find this feature?
http://www.tarocchi.net/en/The_Restoration_of_the_Tarot.html
What seems compelling about this "restoration" deck is the attempt to recreate the colour scheme of the Conver deck, complete with the effects of fading and age.
From what little I can see, as they provide so few images (and google images doesnt turn much up either), there is a strange relationship between the lines and the dark green. They kind of appear to "vibrate" as if the dark grey used for the lines has the same or just slightly lighter shade or colour value as the green. It seems distracting at first, but then when you look at old decks the stencilling of colours sometimes hides the lines. So it makes some sense. The jet black of modern restorations and the primary colours gives many new decks a kind of cartoonish or even garish look imnsho (but I've gotten used to it).
Oddly they claim that they arrived at the precise colours through an anonymous individual who uses a psychic process called "radiesthesia".
The thing about these folks that niggles at me though is somewhere they make an allusion to another modern recreation deck that "looks almost identical" but theirs is made so that there is no copyright claims or something like that. Given that it has the "Camoin egg" and it does like the JC deck i have to assume they are referring to that deck.
So I am getting a vibe that there is something not quite on the "up and up" with these folks and was wondering, as I said, if anyone has seen the deck, but also if my vibe is justified in some way.
Lastly can SOMEONE tell me what is up with the egg? Where did Jodorowsky and Camoin find this feature?
