Vamp: The Theda Bara tarot

[Joan Marie]

I just backed this and it only goes a few more hours.

At least check it out. There is some really serious thought behind this deck and some real artistic talent.

[Rachelcat]

Too bad for this one, too. It looks a bit like the Femmes Erotique deck http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/fe ... ards.shtml (made from vintage girlie/porn cards), but the text really kicks it up a notch. I would definitely go for this if it ever comes out.

[Joan Marie]

I like this one because there is a lot behind it besides the Theda Bara theme (which was not bad at all). Bara was an avid occultist besides offering so many gorgeous and strange images.
The hand done text on each card is not only beautiful, it adds a really interesting dimension. From the Kickstarter page:

For the major arcana, the text is taken from ‘The Symbolism of the Tarot’ by PD Ouspensky published in 1913. This book consists of pen pictures describing a journey through the 22 cards of the majors.

For the minor arcana, the text is taken from the 15th century tarot poetry of Count Matteo Boiardo. He proposed a 78 card tarot deck with the minors being split into suits based on the Four Passions of Fear, Jealousy, Hope and Love. The VAMP tarot deck uses these minors which are well suited to the themes of Theda’s films dealing with such passions and emotions.

Boiardo wrote a three-line poem for each card, and these are shown in their entirety on each minor card in the deck. As with the majors, all text is handwritten by myself using pen and ink, and in a chancery cursive style that was developed in Italy in the 15th century as well.

I'm disappointed and wish I'd learned of it sooner so we could have promoted it more here. She was SO close to success.

[Nemia]

It looks fascinating though maybe a bit too monothematic, even for an old movie aficionado like me. I hope she finds another way to make this deck come alive.