Friday, November 21, 2014

Furniture Friday - Top 10 Wooden Pallet Creations

Over the last year I have seen in different corners ( within the stratosphere and beyond) creative and innovative ideas with the use of wooden pallets .

I think we are all familiar with the term : A pallet  sometimes inaccurately called a skid (a skid has no bottom deck boards), is a flat transport structure that supports goods in a stable fashion while being lifted by a forklift, pallet jack, front loader, work saver or other jacking device. A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies. Goods or shipping containers are often placed on a pallet secured with strapping, stretch wrap or shrink wrap and shipped.

Why wooden pallets are everywhere(?) they are damn cheap first of all (you can even buy from Amazon for less than 5 pounds) you can use them in any style, you can create any shape and the most importantly you can produce everything even if this is one of a kind or a production base series. 

Beneath you will find my TOP 10 wooden pallets ideas!!!

1) Shelf Ideas - the most common use ! Always on trend 



2) A perfect place to sit >_<



3) Up to children imagination and parents innovation 



4) Children bed ideas - the perfect solution if you have twins :) 



5) Baby bed <3 



6) I can relax just by watching it ! Perfect idea for warm summer nights out in your veranda 



7) Kitchen furniture bench  ideas - wood always give a cozyness in your house :)



8) Bathroom Idea - If you don't have one create one !



9) Garden furniture or even for Small company furniture idea 



10) My favourite piece - Home cinema :P



For more ideas please visit my Pinterest page  at the link below http://www.pinterest.com/rililongjohn5/pallet-passion/

Enjoy

XxX

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Trendy Thursday - Hollywood Film Awards

On the 14th of November - last Friday - were the 18th Annual Hollywood film awards at The Palladium.

Many celebs were there but let face it, the bi er buzz is on what they wore rather than what they won ! In the end was two choices either black or white :)

I choose MY top 10 fav of the night! 


1) Jennifer Lopez 



An amazing Zuhair Murad spring 2015 flower illusion cut-out top, and crisp white pencil skirt.


2) Sandra Bullok


The perfect little black dress by Dsquared LBD 


3) Angelina Jolie 


 Strapless Atelier Versace full-length black gown 


4) Emily Ratajkowski



    Black bandage style Diane von Furstenberg jumpsuit

5) Laura Dern




  Blue black tulle covered high low, strapless gown from Alberta Ferretti pre-fall 2014 collection.


6) Julianne Moore



 White sheer dress by Balenciaga Spring 2015 

7)Amy Adams 



 chic in Christian Dior cocktail dress 


8) Jenna Dewan





Reem Acra resort 2015 beaded gold keyhole gown

9) Gillian Flynn


10) Jared Leto




Double-breasted suit by Alexander McQueen’s Fall 2014 collection. Fashion touch :shoes by white Christian Louboutin New Platers Fiori shoes


Enjoy

XxX 

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Tattoist Tuesday - Geometric Tattoos with a splash of colour

Tattoos has become my decade fashion trend like the 60's were hippies and Saturday night fever trend of 70's.

My children will see middle aged people with black sketches on  hands and legs that die to wrinkles will become unrecognised to see what was once a eccentric form of art. 

And it is. Tattoo is an eccentric form of art that people that truly love tattoo appreciate and respect artist creation. To conclude my thoughts tattoo its a character statement so choose your tattoo carefully because others see what you want them to see - so be true to your self and body.

After sharing this monologue.... for this Tattooist Tuesday I will present a new form of trend that I loveeee. Geometry was one of the most ancient tattoo techniques that now has involves in a more artistic and photoshopic form.

Beneath you will find 10 geometric tattoos with a splash of colour :) 




Enjoy 

XxX

Monday, November 17, 2014

Movie Monday - Movies that I love, soundtracks that I adore ! Part II

Last week my Movie Monday was based on movie soundtracks with lyrics such as I don't want to miss a thing of Aeromith from the well known movie Armageddon.  

You can check it on this link : http://rilireallyknows.blogspot.com/2014/11/movie-monday-movies-that-i-lov.html


To make long story short, for this Movie Monday I prepared some wonderful heartbreaking music soundtracks likeeeeeee.....


1) Forrest Gump : I am Forrest…. Forrest Gump  - Alan Silvestri



This is one of my favourite music that reminds me of a bed time song. This song name is I am Forrest…. Forrest Gump and I am sure that you all understood this magnificent movie. The music was composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri. Silvestri's music was nominated for Best Original Score in the 67th Academy Awards.

2)  Pirates of the Caribbean : He is a Pirate - Klaus Badelt & Hans Zimmer's



"He's a Pirate" is a musical theme credited to Klaus Badelt (with Hans Zimmer's assistance) for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. The track is best known as the main theme for the Pirates of the Caribbean films. It is featured at the end of each film, and is the first theme heard as the end credits roll.



 

3) AmĆ©lie : Comptine d'Un Autre ƉtĆ© - Yann Tiersen


Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet chanced upon the accordion and piano driven music of Yann Tiersen while driving with his production assistant who put on a CD he hadn't heard before. Greatly impressed, he immediately bought Tiersen's entire catalogue and eventually commissioned him to compose pieces for the film.The soundtrack features both compositions from Tiersen's first three albums, but also new items, variants of which can be found on his fourth album, L'Absente, which he was writing at the same time. Beside the accordion and piano the music features parts played with harpsichord, banjo, bass guitar, vibraphone and even a bicycle wheel at the end of "La Dispute" (which plays over the opening titles in the motion picture).



4) Anna Karenina : Dance with Me - Dario Marianelli 


Marianelli is an Italian composer , Italy. He has composed the soundtracks for The Brothers Grimm (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), and Anna Karenina (2012), the last three for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score. In 2008, Marianelli won both an Oscar and Golden Globe for the score of Atonement.




5) Grand Budapest Hotel : Alexandre Desplat -  Lute and Plucked Strings I Moderato

The soundtrack is composed by Alexandre Desplat, who worked with Anderson previously on Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom. It is co-produced by Anderson with music supervisor, Randall Poster; they, too, worked together on Moonrise Kingdom. The original music is by Desplat, along with Russian folk songs and pieces composed by Ɩse Schuppel, Siegfried Behrend, and Vitaly Gnutov, and performed by the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. The 32 tracks, with orchestral elements, keyboard instruments and ambient drones, feature eclectic variations and central melodic themes. Flamenco guitars are used in "Overture: M. Gustave H" and church organs in "Last Will and Testament". The opening song, the Appenzell yodel "s'Rothe-ZƤuerli" by Ruedi and Werner Roth, is from the Swiss folk group's Ɩse Schuppel's album Appenzeller ZƤuerli. 



6) Chariots of Fire : Vangelis Papathanassiou



Chariots of Fire is a 1981 musical score by Greek electronic composer Vangelis (credited as Vangelis Papathanassiou) for the British film Chariots of Fire, which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Original Music Score. The album topped Billboard 200 for 4 weeks. The opening theme of the film (called "Titles" on the album track listing but widely known as "Chariots of Fire") was released as a single in 1981, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week after, climbing steadily for five months (it made #1 in its 21st week on the chart). "Titles" also reached #12 in the United Kingdom, where its parent album peaked at #5 and spent 107 weeks on the album chart. The single also peaked at #21 in Australia on the Australian Singles Chart.


7) X-Men First Class : Henry Jackman - Magneto

Henry Jackman, who had worked with Vaughn in Kick-Ass, composed the score. Following the James Bond influences on First Class, Jackman drew inspiration from John Barry's work in the said series, which he described as "extremely posh pop music".[90] Jackman started his work with a "Superman-style theme", which is only featured in the final parts of the film as Vaughn thought it was too "successful and triumphant" for a disjointed and up-and-coming team. Therefore, Vaughn reworked a 'stretched' half time version of the theme into the remainder of the film. The themes for Magneto and Shaw have similarities to reflect their "perverted father-son" relationship, with even a seamless transition during the scene where Shaw is killed to represent Lensherr's full transformation into Magneto. 


8) John Williams together with Nino Rota are my favourite old time composer. Rumour has it that Steven Spielberg was after something subtle for the shark in Jaws - perhaps a piano motif. He was persuaded to change his mind and the famous 'chomping' of the low strings is one of the most instantly recognisable themes of all. In contrast, the moment when the bicycles soar though the air in E.T. would melt the coldest heart. The music in the film up to that point is quite low-key but it finally takes flight with a magnificent thrilling melody on the high strings.

Nor is his more recent work any less potent. A score like Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a masterpiece of colour. Unlike so many contemporary scores, it explores the whole range of orchestral possibilities.Further, he succeeds in capturing the flighty wit of Catch Me if You Can with crisp, jazzy textures, while Minority Report conveys a disturbing futuristic vision through dissonant strings. And, like all his scores, there are moments of unexpected beauty.

 Catch Me If You Can: John Williams -  Catch me if you can


Catch Me If You Can: Music from the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack of the 2002 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio,Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and Amy Adams. The original score was composed by John Williams. The film was the twentieth collaboration between Williams and director Steven Spielberg. The album was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The first track of the soundtrack is featured in The Simpsons episode "Catch 'Em If You Can".




 Star Wars : John Williams - Main theme song 

Williams delivered a grand symphonic score in the fashion of Richard Strauss and Golden Age Hollywood composers Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Its main theme, "Luke's Theme" is among the most widely recognized in film history, and the "Force Theme" and "Princess Leia's Theme" are well-known examples of leitmotif. Both the film and its soundtrack were immensely successful it remains the highest grossing non-popular music recording of all-time and Williams won another Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1980, Williams returned to score The Empire Strikes Back, where he introduced "The Imperial March" as the theme for Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. The original Star Wars trilogy concluded with the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, for which Williams' score provided most notably the "Emperor's Theme," "Parade of the Ewoks," and "Luke and Leia." Both scores earned him Academy Award nominations.


9) Psycho : Bernard Herrmann – prelude/ the murder / finale

Bernard Herrmann was an American composer known for his work in motion pictures. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver.



10) The last two soundtracks are written by one of the most well know Italian composer, pianist, contractor and academic Nino Rota. Just magnificent.... semplicemente magnifico !!!! 

Romeo and Juliet ( 1968) : Nino Rota - What is a Youth 

The soundtrack for the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet was composed and conducted by Nino Rota. It was originally released as a vinyl record, containing nine entries, most notably the song "What Is a Youth", composed by Nino Rota, written by Eugene Walter and performed by Glen Weston. The music score won a Silver Ribbon award of the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1968 and was nominated for two other awards (BAFTA Award for Best Film Music in 1968[ and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score in 1969).


Speak Softly Love : The godfather – Nino Rota

"Speak Softly Love (Love Theme from The Godfather)" is a song written for The Godfather (1972), the first film in The Godfather trilogy. The lyrics are by Larry Kusik but the music itself is by Nino Rota. The signature musical theme that opens the piece closely models a theme that appears early in "Preludio - Povero Ernesto!" in the opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). A similar melody also appears in the Overture to La Forza del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901).[citation needed] There are also different sets of lyrics for the song in Italian ("Parla Più Piano"), French ("Parle Plus Bas") and also in Sicilian ("Brucia La Terra"). The Sicilian version is sung by Anthony Corleone (Franc D'Ambrosio) in The Godfather Part III. It had been nominated for Best Original Score.  However, Rota's score for The Godfather Part II won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Score, despite containing the same piece.


Enjoy 

XxX

Friday, November 14, 2014

Furniture Friday - Picture Frame you empty wall

Everyone wants to decorate an empty wall and what a lovely and creative idea to create a collage situation. 

I have gathered 10 innovative decoration ideas for a boring empty wall to a the favourite spot of the  house.

1) My favourite idea. Its a splendid idea to show proudly to your guest and children your family tree and who knows maybe if you search you you were an ancestor of a king :P 



2) The classic frame collage but with a bit a twist :) You can frame you baby girl and name the wall my little princess with sweet pink picture frames <3


3) The beneath 2 pictures I used to do it back in my uni years !!! ohhhh miss those moments >_<


4) Picture frames with your favourite word or even your fav quote 


5) Love it !!!! <3


6) This is usually been used in a vintage / country style house with vintage old plaits or you can even create you own plates . Use your old white plates stencil your favourite people inside.  


7) Life is been counted by beautiful moments not by the minutes that you spend each day.


8) This is one of the most recyclable ,innovative and creative ideas that I have seen. You can use your old drawers as shelves or as jewellery promo object <3

9) A frame in a frame on a frame ! Geometry is always in fashion 



10) A lovely mess !


For more homey ideas visit my pinterest page at http://www.pinterest.com/rililongjohn5/

Enjoy 

XxX