Flickr Tarot
Inspired by Joey's post on someone who made a Google Images Periodic Table, I did text searches on Flickr and came up with this version of the Tarot (Major Arcana and Ace cards of the suits only). Each card image is derived from the top "most relevant" match that I came up with.
All the images are used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license.
Yes, the images for The World and The Star are the same. Also, I used the alternative designation of The High Priest instead of The Hierophant because, amazingly, there are no images matching the text Hierophant in Flickr at this time.
I could imagine a Flickr toy which would automate the process of image picking using the most up-to-date search results. Maybe for the King in each suit we could have it take the second search result for the suit name, third for the Queen, and so forth. It could put the cards into a tableau, and the pictures could be used in the reading itself.
6 comments:
were you not tempted to upload an image yourself and name it Hierophant?
Actually no. I don't really have a good picture of the Pope.
Hi Rich,
What fun! Some are "right on" IMHO. I love those that are "found" Tarot cards, like the hotel names and the pentacle-like design on the building. The Tarot archetypes really are all around us, both explicit and implicit, and within us.
Hi Roswila/Patricia!
I go back and forth, and The Tower might be my favorite one of these. I just like the idea of tourists posing in front of the Rider-Waite tower struck by lightning that it brings up.
Or maybe the Ace of Rods. I guess the guy's name is Rod.
This is great! I'm glad i can inspire. Here is a link to a high res version of the periodic table i made and a better jpg of it.
http://www.rarzorz.com/atomic
Cheers,
Tim
Nice, Tim. Are you going to have these printed on T-shirts too?
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