Mayfair Witches Graphics
I've been on something of a tear lately. If there is one thing I love, it's beautiful flower graphics. So, as I have been putting together a playlist on the Parlor's YouTube channel of music used in the brief clips made by Immortal Universe, I've also been VERY distracted. Distracted with finding out more about the kind of graphics used to make those swaying floral graphics with floating particles...
The ones I've found, like the one above, I found on YouTube. This one came out looking a bit like a title card for a silent film. Well, the text looks like the title card for a silent films, but something more. Which is fitting, because I do like silent films.
Just for fun, if you are interested in silent films, and want to see what films you can find to watch online that are now (mostly) public domain, YouTube is a good resource. Vimeo is another to look for silent films on.
As for the motion graphics for the image above, it comes from this video on YouTube: Blooming Vignettes Black Edition
Videos like this that you can use can be found on YouTube and other resources, such as stock videos. If you have video editing software, there are videos with green screen, blue screen, etc as well as videos meant to simply be backgrounds. Some of the videos you'll find have more than one version of the graphic in the video, such as one with a background to the animation already provided or green screen.
The video graphic used above can be found on the main website, one page being the :Home page. Clicking the image at the bottom of the main site's Home Page will bring you to this blog's home page.
As pages on this blog are restored, you'll see it as the little graphic at the bottom of the corresponding page on the main website as the link to take you to that page in this blog. I've started with Remembering Anne Rice.
Remembering Anne
The link to the page on this blog, which previously went to a post since removed, now goes to the post linked in the main menu of this blog (sorry!).
The page on the main website, linked above, now includes a link to a short video on the home page of Anne Rice's official website, Bringing Anne Home. The link on the Parlor page will open the video in its own tab (but still on Anne's website), but it can also be viewed by playing it on her site's Home page.
Please let me know if the video plays easier (doesn't take long to load and/or playback is not choppy) in its own tab or by simply playing it directly on the Home page. It is a video only a few minutes long, but those few minutes are deeply emotional.
It is an emotional experience to watch this video, which I was finally able to watch for the first time recently. But not without being in tears. Immediately.
Also on the page on the main site, I have included a link to Anne Rice's listing on Find a Grave, where you can leave flowers and maybe a brief note for her. For those unfamiliar with how you can do this, you'll need to be able to log in to Find a Grave.
Once you do, you will need to click the tab, Flowers, on Anne's listing. Beneath the row of tabs (Memorial, Photos, Flowers), you will see to the left an option to leave flowers. Find a Grave provides a free gallery of memorial graphics to choose from and space if you'd like to say a few words.
The Rice mausoleum, which is also pictured, is beautiful and situated in a lovely spot in Metairie Cemetery. Also laid to rest in Metairie Cemetery are Emory Clapp (1821-1880). his wife, Pamela Orn Starr Clapp (1841-1934), and other members of the Clapp family. They were the second family to own the house at 1239 First Street in New Orleans.
I wanted to provide a way of directing fans of Anne Rice from all over the world to a place where you can pay your respects online if you are unable to do so in person.
Rest in peace, dear Anne...