Crowd outside: As you can read above in the title we’re looking for somebody quite fit for making some graphics, we hardly got no time to create. In the beginning, it’s just about smaller teasers and animations, but we got a bigger project in nearest future.

So we badly need a boy or a girl with at least photoshop skills (some vector based and flash abilities would be advantageous), who is interested to make some stuff with us. Unfortunately we can’t pay anything to anybody currently, but you’re welcome posting through this blog. This might be not the world, but you’re free to let off steam, run riot and die, if you dive into the style we’d like to run. We don’t care wherever you are, how old you are, just want to see something of your skills and want somebody to count on supplying us with fresh gfx.

If you’re interested and/or got more questions don’t hesitate and email us: music@thefastlife.org

TFL is proud to present you a young and pretty artist from Germany. Nadine Platzek aka Ninino aka Tape 3000 is a 23yrs old girl, who can’t get enough from love, life and music. She is a painter, photographer, musician, and a wonderful gleam of hope on a grey afternoon. We love her style and her lovely way to create a new story, in pictures as well as in music. Currently she’s working on her 2nd album and the musical collaboration SFC 3000 with her fiancee.

Not too many words, by clicking HERE you’ll get an interview and petite pieces of photos and graphic.

zShare: Tape 3000 - He
zShare: Tape 3000 - He (Lotta Remix)
zShare: Tape 3000 - Rainbow

Kräfte vereint euch! Die neuen Power Rangers sind da - Kunst, Mode, Musik – Im Knäuel/ nur noch selten alleine/ da, um die Welt zu retten! Immer mehr häufen sich diese Veranstaltungen, die in den Charity-Mantel schlüpfen, aus alt neu machen oder einfach nur einer ganzen Hip-Welle hinterher- schwimmen, um das Neueste vom Neuesten vom Baum zu zwitschern.

Da liegt ein Barcelona hinter uns, das uns die Butter direkt aufs Brot schmiert. Die Bread&Butter-Bilanz:
73% Joey Elgersma-Style,
15cm-High Heel Fashionistas,
schwitzende Mode-Touristen gegen unendlich,
2676 DON´Ts (Botox, Punk Royal, Würstchencroissants)
243 DO´s (Lazy Oaf, panuu.com, Wesc, Reebok, etc.)
Dj Sets vom Feinsten (Headman, Fuck Hugo, Diskokaine, rqm..)

Aus Barcelona werde ab heute Wedding 65. Pünktlich zur Berliner Fashion Week kleidet sich der Bezirk mit dem Wedding Dress. Urbane Mode, Kunst und Designprojekte gehen ab heute bis zum 10.02 täglich von 10 bis 18 Uhr in der Brunnenstrasse an den Start. Und nebenbei gibt’s den ultimativen Wettbewerb zur Reanimation des Szeneviertels von Übermorgen. Für heute Abend sagen wir: von der Royal We Session – Party mit DJ Legere weiter zur Eröffnungsparty in Tape Club. Viva la RIO and Easyjet!

Fuck Rio, it´s hotter in hell. Deswegen garantiert nicht verpassen: The Helping Hounds of Hell. Ab heute Abend bis zum 03.02 kann man in der Neurotitan Gallery 100 individuell gestaltete Boards bestaunen und erwerben. Für den Geldbeutel eines Kinderkrankenhauses in Senegal sponsorte TWILITE® Skateboards und das Designstudio Groupe De Jour die Bretter und ließ sie von internationalen Künstlern bemalen, bekleben und kleinhäxeln.

Von den Socken, rauf aufs Brett.

We would advise you now, to take a little time - like Avid Liongoren, an exceptionally gifted Filipino artist, was doing while creating his Project 365. For this purpose he has drawn, the whole past year round, every day one of his little monster into a real photo. Amazing is, how the creatures blend in - they somehow raise the feeling of beauty for the remaining areas of the photos. And - never fear! The monsters are not that creepy - but convince yourself!

image: Walkandy.net

You know we love art. But today I feel entirely head over heels in love by keeping tabs on the german street art duo Herakut while working together such as the wheels of a movement. For all you don’t noticed about until now - Herakut is the brilliant collaboration of Hera and Akut, who’s well known from the Maclaim Crew. Anyway, it’s just incredible how perfectly Akut’s detailed photorealistic aerosol paintings and Hera’s confusing, but heartwarming and melty style fit together.
Presently they have an exhibition called “Permission to Paint” at the Leonard Street Gallery in London. So if you’re able to rent a jet, borrow your parents helicopter, hijack a hovercraft or try to get control over a train and set forth to London. For all of you this is too reckless take a look at the exhibitions-flickr-photopage. And in addition we send over a nice video of the appearance of “Permission to Paint”. Enjoy watching.

Zum Wochenendausklang gibt’s was für die Augen. Der animierte Kurzfilm Revolt Of The Mouses entführt uns auf ein imaginäres Schlachtfeld, auf dem sich sinnbildlich Tradition und Moderne gegenüber stehen. Bleistifte, Radiergummis und Pinsel werden aus der Idylle ihres “Paperland” gerissen und müssen sich einer Übermacht von aggressiven Computer-Mäusen stellen.
Die Macher wollen Ihren Film als eine Art Fingerzeig verstanden wissen und lassen diesen in einer unsinnigen Parodie darüber enden, wie wir uns der derzeitigen Technik auszuliefern scheinen. Mit einem Blick auf das Werk kann das ja aber auch jeder für sich selbst herausfinden. Mein Hero - der kleine rote Wachsmalstift!

Alex Trochut is absolutely crazy.

Second today is a post with the highest frequency of yet unseen hard working stuff, you can call it like 1972: pure superfly. Click on Super Touch Blog, to make your eyes have a little break with great stuff currently hanging in Basel, Swiss.

For all photos click the link, above, I am going to share some pictures here, click for show

Jawohl, ich bin verliebt!!
Wenn ich Sie sehe, fange ich an unwillkürlich vor mich hin zu lächeln und obwohl ich Sie noch nicht wirklich lange kenne, scheint Sie einfach wie für mich gemacht. Ihre Eleganz, Ausstrahlung und Ihr Teint ziehen mich magisch an und ich möchte einfach nur noch mit Ihr unterwegs sein. Wenn ich Sie berühre, kribbelt es von den Fingerspitzen ausgehend durch meinen gesamten Körper, ja meine Augen leuchten gar auf vor Freude darüber Sie an meiner Seite zu wissen. Eine wie Sie gibt es so kein zweites Mal und das Schärfste sind in Ihrem Fall auch noch die inneren Werte.
Und wenn ich hier grad schon so pathetisch vor mich hin schwärme, gibt es oben drauf noch das Lied das mir treffend dazu einfiel.

Tomte - Ich sang die ganze Zeit von dir (zshare)

ICH LIEBE DICH! show

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ VIELEN DANK MISS MERCY UND MILLIONAIRE BOI! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

For all of you not checking the calendar every day, Pseudoé Silhouette made a fine petite animation for my, his and your mobile phone to check out a new wallpaper or screensaver if you want. Click here to check the big gif-animation with almost 2MB or here (right click, save target as) to load the small version for your cell phone. I love the airplane-image.

images: Young Loup

Miss Van - french street and canvas paintress opened a new vernissage in Parisian Galerie Magda Danysz and all of you crave, adore or just love to see Miss Van’s stuff, are heartly invited to have a view of more shots of the exhibition on Super Touch Blog.

You are welcome to read and see more paintings on thefastlife by collapsing this post, click show

Lovely Miss Mercy told me: It’s second time Pictoplasma is launching an animation festival, this year, starting on November the 22nd in Kino Babylon, Berlin. You might know them in book-form called “The Character Encyclopaedia“, an absolute eye candy to browse through.
Upcoming weekend (22-25th Nov) they get on screen with characters in motion. Different speakers going to please the audience, amongst others Doudouboy, Studio Soi and Acampante, while having lectures. Your eyes going to be stroked by a high variety of screenings. Get the whole schedule here.
I’ve heard a whole weekend-card costs about 72€, but you can have different single-screenings for lower prices. The exhibition, opening party and performance (by Hanayo, Donna Summer, Martin Hossbach) is in Rodeo Berlin on Thursday, 22nd - 7pm. Could and will be very interesting.

I don’t want to lose many words. Non-Format just speaks for it’s own.

Webpick Issue 12 is out for a while.
And it’s all in it: If you want it scary, beautiful, disgusting, shocking, clean, latin-american, childish, interesting, with or without sound, business-like, architectural , funny, european, dumb, naked, ugly, silly, colorful, tall, dark and handsome, heartwarming, bloody, excellent, confusing, gleaming, glossy, asian, neverending or whatever, you’ll find it in there!

I admit, it’s a little confusing way to find the free issue, but i give you the shortest route to success:
First klick to reach magazine page is here. Then all you’ve got to do is mouseclicking on the bigsized orange-dominating image on top and choose english/chinese, pc/mac - version. Don’t be skeptical to the exe-file. Virus-scan it, if you want. It won’t destroy your motherboard or whatever.
If you had the heart to complete it, Webpick rewards you with stuff you never have seen before.

If you haven’t have enough, “Connection Issue 4 Made in Germany” is out since 2 days. Click here for a free version by registering yourself (for free as well). I thought about giving you an account here, but was afraid somebody would change the password, so it’ll be useless. But it’s great to check what’s around in Germany right now. And better: if you have the heart again, you’ll see a variety of pages of the agency i am hanging around all day.

You want streetstuff? You can have weird paintings of eastern writers from Russia and Czech and Russia and Czech. Maybe it’s taking you 1hour and if you got nothing to do why not checking 2 pdf-graff-magazines we like to recommend.

Ya wanna hava finest flavoured streetzduff? Ya can have ultimate ugliest graffstuff of eastern writerz from russia and czech, boy. Iz takin u 1hr an’ if ya gotta no nuttin on ya why not checking into theez 2 graff-mags we recommendcha, bitches.

Dropping into the game today to continue yesterday with »Havec«, hanging around in bordeaux, france, serving great drawing, cut-outs and illustrations with a big smile. Warm up the scrollwheel on your mouse or go ahead by pressing space on Havec’s folio.

Click through, play the navigation screen, check the page, play the download-part to see what you can get. All in all it’s a great voyage to Argentinian »Dgph«. Don’t miss to throw an eye on “Do it you mole”.

I think »TofuLines« did so vegan past years they became insane. Don’t know what else to say.

Maybe »Gaston Caba« is wearing a poncho, having a moustache and is sleeping from 12-2pm. I think the rest of the day he’s a quite nice guy with a soft voice, who loves to invite you in his finca showing you very calm what he did last evening. I just speculate.

It’s not much what Luis A. Reynoso is showing, but i really dived into the way he’s swinging the acryl.

Without any big intro i’d like to share with you, what made my eyes busy today. First up today is »Ice Cream for free«, a young berlin-based agency, mainly concentrated on print design. I really like their vintage-choice-of-color, their usage of textures and presentation, making me feel like in the 60s GDR.

»Michael Slack« is a gleaming number in illustrations for a variety of magazines and a horrible sweet child-book-illustrator, appearing spooky and funny together. I deeply commend slipping through his folio.

»Sauerkids« got so much stuff to see, it’s possible losing the overview what you already clicked and what not. I don’t like the page, but i like to see how they vectorize.

Next up is Netherlands »Lennard Schuurmans« coming towards very great in drawing and painting. Slip through his panoramic viewing page and enjoy his colors.

If i’ve got to guess i would say Middle or South America will be the place where »Colorblok Inc« is located. I am so flashed of their tiny little pop-up-portfolio-page, showing up glitzing with colours, funny with illustrations and so cute in motion. Their 2006er Reel kicked me.

I will continue »The International« tomorrow, because: “Sharing is caring” (F.Frede, 2006)

Ben O’Brien aka »Ben The Illustrator« kann mehr als kommerzielle Illustrationen, animierte Musikvideos und T-Shirt Design. Ben the Illustrator steht für großartige Farben, einfache Formen und Regenbogengeschichten.
Er schafft neuen Ideenraum um “Love & Harmonyyyeah” in bonbonfarbene Zuckerwatte einzupacken und in die Welt zu setzen. Zudem wirkt er an den verschiedensten Projekten mit - so das »100 Artists Project« oder das von ihm und und seiner Frau ins Leben gerufene »Team Colours«, welches Künstler mit Hang und Liebe zur Farbe in Produktion und Austellung vereint.
Auch die »Speakerdogs!« sind eine der Kreationen von Ben. Mit mittlerweile 4 Serien, produziert von Illustratoren, Grafikern und allerlei Künstlern aus der ganzen Welt, ist der Speakerdog ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Illustrator-Familie geworden. Eine allerallererste Ausstellung findet im November im »Kitch-en« statt. Diese Papierfigur erinnert in ihrer Einfachheit an unsere Kindheit, denn jeder kann seinen Speakerdog selbst drucken, bemalen, ausschneiden, zusammenkleben und damit spielen.

“Speakerdog stands for peace and love! and you?”

I used to be a fan of typo-video’s without any storyline.
You remember that pulp-fiction-dialog of Jarratt Moody!? Now it’s Citizen Cope’s song “Let the Drummer Kick” that is typorized with After Effects, done by Artur Dimke // FH Muenster.

To find some scandinavian designer or photographer wasn’t that easy like yesterday the french. Maybe i was a little too spoiled of our western neighboring country. But i found one designer and 2 photographers i’d like to share.

First to come is »Andreas Pihlström«, who’s a swedish mixture on his portfolio of graphic and photo or photos that could be graphics, or less a quite base for graphic working. Or click his blog for a little more. It’s not that much, but a worthy right-click on your mouse.

»Kimm Saatvedt« seems to be more the staged-snapshot-photographer, who definitely took longer, than you think by first viewing. I like his fullscreen-portfolio and many of his photos.

»Knotan« is more into portrait-photographs, but his way kind of banish anybody seems to be very interesting. View the 96 photos on his website or 4 more images i found on ponyexpress.

A little younger. A little more street:
Dokument Förlag from Sweden coming with »1207« book (the police-code for damage to property in Sweden), Portraits of Stockholm. In this book, the artist decided the location of getting shooted and documented. Some directly on the crime scene, some home, some in a club, it’s like weapons of choice. The photographer Torkel Sjötrand impresses with technique and composition. It’s not all about the works of the artists, it’s about the artists themselves. Good or bad is a decision on your own. But the atmosphere of the book is able to capture. You can read and see a little more here.

Pseudoe Silhouette
»Gute Fotografen gibt es en mass. Die Zahl jener die sich einem, durch ihren unverwechselbaren Stil, im Kopf festtackern ist denn dann doch recht überschaubar. Die Arbeiten von Aneta Bartos sind definitiv einprägsam und vor allem unglaublich eigen. Sie schafft es, mit Ihren Bildern, mich selbst in eine andere Zeit zu versetzen und der mir bei schwebende Nimbus einer Greta Garbo oder Marlene Dietrich unterstreicht auch gleich noch die entsprechende Klasse. Unglaublich schöne Arbeiten in der Tat…«

Teen Millionaire
»Sherlock Holmes. But today i just can’t detect which great choice Aneta Bartos did, when she decided which technique she wants to use for live-editing her photos or rework them. It’s such a great assignement of blur. But that’s secondary. Aneta Bartos makes me feel like stuck in the 20s. Nearly fullest prevention of technology. If the effects occurs live-by-shooting i would guess: vignetted milk glass or soft-focus. Someone’s got a hint? Is it important, it’s amazing on it’s own.«

image:Dirtyday

Friendly appearing »Soleil Noir« is a young agency from paris, founded in 2000. They seem to have fullest control over bright shining graphics with a breath of glitter, pedantic into the finest part of flashing web pages with love and showing up themselves fresh and handsome in a Parisian Loft.

The Portfolio of Thomas LeCourt needs a little time to load, but i was that overwhelmed after the loading process completed. Such a variety of fondly designed images. Pure heartwarming.

It’s very confusing that many french portfolio-pages of graphic designers are under construction. »Cuypi« is one of them as well. But you can have a petite view of one track he did on his page, that is coming soon and dive into his graphic works via his blog.

How funny is thinking about how this french woman saying her name to a person, when she introduces herself: ChnoukiPoutsie. She uses her myspace-profile sharing soft pastel-graphics with readers and surfers. Furthermore you can see via GingerLily what she did for this online-store.

Some stuff is so cute, it seems French were born for sustentative graphics, in shortform to get through.

Don’t worry, be »Apy«.
The Blog of »Lucie Brunelliere« showing up some impressions of her activities.
Watch this nice comic-graphic-style of »Last«.
Get into the world of »Pandaluna«.
»Mapple - Sketches are such an eyecatcher.
Graphics that strokes your heart and leave a smile behind, by »Magicien«.
The same is »Cib«, even it’s not that much, that he’s showing.
I’ve seen stuff of »Pagan« for a while and really like his gaming-inspired gleaming graphics.
»Hyper Moi is simply great in comic-vectoring-business.
Wonderful artwork made in France, of course. Visit »woltJef«, very nice scribbles.
Nice photografic impressions of »Chez Joelle«.
Last, but definitely not least is »Casa Jordi«. I really dived into his collages.

Unter dem Motto »Designers’ Open« lädt die Messestadt Leipzig Fachbesucher wie auch das interessierte Publikum dazu ein sich zu den neuesten Trends und Tendenzen im Interieur- und Lifestylebereich auszutauschen. Hierfür bildet das imposante Ensemble aus Beton, Stahl und Glas des ehemaligen Kaufhauses am Brühl vom 26. - 28.10.2007 das kreative Zentrum der Stadt Leipzig. Mit dem Anspruch an unverbrauchtes und ungesehenes Design will das »Designers’ Open« Festival die Besucher beeindrucken und ein knapp 5000m² großer temporärer Showroom stellt dafür die entsprechende Kulisse dar. Zusätzlich wird das gesamte Wochenende über ein umfangreiches Rahmenprogramm bestehend aus Fachvorträgen, Workshops, Film- und Sonderschauen sowie Podiumsdiskussionen, geboten, wobei mit Sicherheit jeder Besucher etwas Passendes für sich zu entdecken weiß.

Einen Höhepunkt stellt die Würdigung der besten ausgestellten Arbeiten mit dem »Designers’ Open« Jurypreis am Abend des 26.10. dar, welcher nun schon im zweiten Jahr in Folge unter den Teilnehmern ausgelobt wird. Zweifelsfrei hat es das »Designers’ Open« in kürzester Zeit geschafft, sich als ein eigenständiges Festival für Design in Leipzig zu etablieren und eine qualitative Bereicherung darzustellen.

Das komplette Programm (26. - 28.10.2007) gibt’s hier.

Unser Special Tipp - die Whizzkids Zone im UG des Kaufhauses am Brühl fungiert als Schnittstelle zwischen visueller und auditiver Kunst - Streetart vs. Electronic Music.

Via »Our bees make honey«, I spotted an US-graphic-drawing-mixture named »Jonathan Cammisa« sharing quite nice illustrations in the web with the audience.
He’s coming a little dark and scary, but that might be the reason why »ericailcane« quite quick came into my mind, also known as »eric the dog - Italian maestro of anything weird you can draw with a ballpoint pen«. Damn, what a looker!

Post Panic specialise in film, 2D/3D animation and motion graphics, producing and directing unique projects for the broadcast, advertising, music and retail industries.

Post Panic was founded in 1997 and are located in central Amsterdam, NL. They handle projects in total, from concept to final delivery, ensuring their creative ideas remain fresh and true throughout the whole productions process.

Enough of business-talking. PP seems to be a quite nice flash-homepage, with petite gimmicks if you take time. Let the popup leave a little behind and wait to see what happens. But primary it’s the movies that are flashing very much. 3dimensional great mirages and glamorous colors. My and Detail’s personal top 1 is via: Portfolio - Number 3 - Palm + Other World. The Reel is fabolous, too.

If you’re a (Graphic, Motion, 3d)designer or producer - they have freelance jobs to give-away.

1 year after this article i found another work of that guys and girls. It’s an entertaining piece of hyperactivity again, i’d like to share with you. Anyone can help to find any information of the actors?!