This is Now

This picture matches perfectly the programme I watched last night about British painter David Hockney. The film followed the famous painter for three years throughout his journey back to England and his quest to reinvent his own art...

When I saw this picture in the This is Now Flickr group I fell for it not only because it’s beautiful but also because the title was perfect: “The End of Time”. I think this picture ties in very well with the concept of ‘now’ since it’s all about time. What is ‘now’...

When I saw this picture on the sidebar of the This is Now blog I could not resist featuring it in one of my post. What a fantastic picture! The light effect is stunning...

“We navigate our whole lives using words...

Life can be all clear and happy like in a fairytale, but it can also be skew, without focus and with blurry colours that smudge together into one big mess. But just like this picture it’s still amazing...

I’ve always loved poetry. In my opinion, it is one of the most beautiful way to express what you feel. Poetry is a compromise between sense and musicality. I think it is possible to express very strong feelings because the musicality of the sentences makes the meaning of the words deeper...

As we are here talking about art and about ‘now’, I started thinking a lot and I would like to share my thoughts with all of you. Art is probably the best way to define what ‘now’ is because it is a reflection of society and its expectations...

I’m a person who quite easily gets stuck with the same old music she has always listened to. I find something I like and then just keep on listening to it...

I have to say this once and for all: I’m a long-time Beatles fan. Not very surprisingly Yesterday was one of the first song I learned to sing in English at school and I’ve been addicted ever since...

This is Now in Fashion. For this Spring-Summer collection, the Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf performed a video with an unique model in the show: Sharlom Harlow, instead or making the classic show with an audience. The entire world could watch the video at the same time...

I might look like a sweet and innocent Swede but underneath the surface you’ll find a few old school tattoos (with a lot more of them to come). The art of tattoo really fascinates me, and always has. I was 12 when I decided to get a tattoo though I had to wait 6 years before I could get one...

When I started browsing the This is Now Flickr group, my eyes were immediately stopped by this photo. Not because of its atmosphere or the great perspective effect but rather because it reflects my present situation perfectly...

Great picture that reminds me how much I love games and playing them...

Oh, how I wish it was me standing in the crowd in this amazing picture, forgetting about everything else and just be in the moment...

As you may have already guessed from my earlier Tweet on the This is Now Twitter account, for the last two days I have not been enjoying the weather in London very much. However rain is a source of great pictures...

Cannes Film Festival 2009 came to an end two days ago with some interesting results. I can’t wait to go to my local theatre and see some of the movies which were presented this year. However today I would like to write about last year’s Palme d’Or, French movie La Classe (Entre les Murs)...

This is now, the future of design, the designers of the future, have a place to expand their ideas, their innovative aproach to reality, their vision for a new world, a place called “European Design Labs” by IED Madrid...

This morning when I walked to the train station a random song just popped into my head: The Killers – Mr. Brightside. I sang it over and over again in my head all morning and now I’m listening to it on repeat on Spotify...

What a fantastic picture of New York City! It reminds me of the fist time I saw New York’ skyline on top of the Rockfeller Centre...

Last Friday I was at Koko in London to see the incredible Ben Kweller and Low Anthem. The venue was probably worth the trip on its own. Koko (Twitter @KOKOlondon) opened in 1900 and served over the years as a variety theatre, a cinema and a live venue...

I already did a post about the obsession for sunglasses in the spring, so I thought I’d follow it up with another spring-obsession many people tend to get (including me): Shoes...

After reading a blogpost written by NoCrowds, one of the This is Now Twitter followers, I decided to head off to the Victoria and Albert Museum (the V&A) to visit the Hats exhibition...

I’ve been living in London for the past 3 months, so my ‘now’ is intimately related to this city, its bustling atmosphere. Music is really important in my life, I would even say omnipresent. I like the way music can arouse emotions and ease pain...

As many of the other bloggers on This is now I’m having a hard time pinning down what ‘now’ means. I’m realising that ‘now’ can be so many things: in a weird way it’s both in the past and in the future...

It’s full spring outside and the sun is shining (at least for the moment). Every year I get this obsession with sunglasses, this spring is no exception...

Last night I had the chance to watch again The Live of Others. It’s a truly splendid movie, probably one of my all-time favourites. I could write about it for several pages but today I just wanted to point out the turning point of the movie...

Making a movie with guys dressed up as rabbits, boeings crashing on your pad, spatio-temporal travels and becoming instantantly cult, that is the tour de force accomplished by Richard Kelly in 2001 with Donnie Darko...

This weekend I had the chance to listen to Ghinzu’s new album Mirror Mirror. I have been a fan of Belgian rock music for a few years now so I was really happy when it turned out to be a great album, in the likes of Venus’ The Red Room or deUS’ Pocket Revolution...

The evolution of special effects in the cinema has undergone a major revolution over the past years. As a result, many different types of projects leverage the use of modern technologies in order to “deceive” us visually and make us believe that this is the reality while it is unreal elements...

Some movies stay with me long after I’ve seen them. Not necessarily because of their plot or the cast, no… sometimes it’s just all about the soundtrack, the way a song will fit the atmosphere of the movie almost perfectly...

What is ‘now’ in Spanish rock ? Well, even now spanish rock is more international than ever, our bands are successful abroad showing that this variant of Spanish music is booming, and not only in English-speaking countries...