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Paint Misbehavin’ (HQ) Full Show

HARD Lifestyle — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:28:02 +0000

It was two years ago on June 25th, 2009 that TLC Discovery Channel aired Paint Misbehavin’, a reality based show TV pilot featuring HARD Lifestyle’s own Steve Flanagan and his team of “paintsters”. Packed with explosions and excitement, Steve and his crew reveal the latest paint technologies through the eye of a Hollywood style presentation filmed by Michael McNamara of MCfilmworks.

In this first episode, Paint Misbehavin’ introduces two very unique paints that are sure to change the way one looks at the paint world. With over a decade of being immersed in the custom paint world and working with the latest paint technologies, Steve demonstrates a fireproof paint that can withstand temperatures in excess of 1,200° F which can be used to treat wood and metal in the housing and industrial sector to protect homes and buildings from the devastating effects of fire. But if that is not amazing enough, Steve also introduces a paint that changes color via temperature and builds a one of a kind cop car that can instantly, from the flip of a switch, change from an unmarked unit to a fully marked cop car with lights flashing, sirens screaming and all the markings of a police unit.

Without any further ado, we are happy to bring you this exciting show in full (HQ) via our friends at YouTube. Please check out this pilot and visit www.hardlifestyle.com for other custom paint technologies and celebrity projects Steve of HARD Lifestyle has had the privilege of taking part in.

Paint Misbehavin (HQ) Full Show part 1of2

Paint Misbehavin (HQ) Full Show part 2of2

Exotic custom car paint

HardLifeStyle — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:24:25 +0000

Story by: Tampa Sports Car Examiner – Michael Berenis

Exotic car paint is not just limited to high price Ferrari, Lamborghini, and other various makes. Specialty exotic paints can be used on any sports car or custom vehicle project that you desire. There has been some amazing new technology developed in the paint world recently, let me introduce you to “Hard Lifestyle“. Hard Lifestyle features the latest in exotic car paint technology and offers top of the line customization processes.

The choice of famous folks, and also featured on TLC’s “Paint Misbehavin” assures all prospective customers that they are getting top of the line quality, extensive ingenuity, and a well known name behind each project. You may have seen vehicles completely covered in chrome, such as rap music star 50 cent’s Lamborghini, or other famous custom jobs such as Kotton Mouth Kings Lou Dog’s trike, Ice T’s Bentley GT, Snoop Dogg’s chrome and gold footballs, Korn’s Fieldy ’64 Impala, and Gwen Stefani’s Gold Tahoe. These are all projects completed by Steve Flanagan of Hard Lifestyle! See slide show below for examples of these projects.

Video content: 50 cent’s chrome Lamborghini by Hard Lifestyle

This unique paint process creates a mirror like surface that can be applied to many surfaces! Chroming cars is just one level this paint can satisfy, your imagination is the next. They also offer other paints by Imperial Surface Technologies that create unique surface types such as “Shrapnel” which emulates brushed aluminum, machine turned, and raw aluminum. These rugged appearances create a defining image on any application. For use on wood surfaces, their new paint technology “Inferno” prevents wood from burning. Exposed to the likes of a flame thrower and propane cannons, the layer of paint just smolders and does not allow the wood to burn.

Video content: “Heatwave” thermal reactive paint

These new exotic paints are an example of how amazing Hard Lifestyle’s paint technology can truly be when applied to the right project. Other paint types include heat reactive which when heat is applied it can change colors or reveal custom designs underneath, distortion which is a color shifting powder held within the paint, krinkle which produces a marble or snakeskin like finish, kashmir which emulates velvet appearance for a soft touch, and multiple types of clear coat based on your preference. Please visit http://www.hardlifestyle.com for the best in exotic car painting and customizing, cutting edge paint technologies, and the ultimate name in style.

Hard Lifestyle’s contact information:

Email: info@hardlifestyle.com
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Video content: Hard Lifestyle’s “Inferno” fire proof paint

All images courtesy of Hard Lifestyle

Bugatti CHROMED OUT!

HARD Lifestyle — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:56:17 +0000

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If anything says HARD it’s this car! A chromed out Bugatti Veyron. We just had to do a 3D version of this beauty. We are adding it to the gallery along with a TON of other updated pics SO… STAY TUNED!!!

http://www.hardlifestyle.com/3d_hardlifestyle_images.html

Los Angeles is Burning

HARD Lifestyle — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:37:16 +0000

In an effort to bring awareness to the devastating effects of fire, we have put together a collage of images and videos of the most recent Los Angeles fires. With the potential millions of dollars in damage, it only makes sense to protect your home and keep your family from losing everything. Re-evaluate what you can do to prevent being another statistic. At HARD Lifestyle we understand the importance of fire prevention and have introduced a NEW tool not available to the public until recently. We are talking about Inferno Fireproof Paint. Yes paint can and has been formulated to stop fire in its tracks therefore protecting your valuable property from being destroyed in the event of a fire.

Inferno Fireproof Paint has been recently put to the test on Discovery Channel’s TLC show “Paint Misbehavin” where Steve Flanagan of HARD Lifestyle used an arsenal of fire implementing tools to attempt to burn down a wooden structure (representing a home) that had been coated with the Inferno Fireproof Paint. With each attempt at burning though the Inferno coating, and with temperatures easily reaching 2000 degrees F the crew of HARD Lifestyle proved without a doubt that this product does exactly what it was designed to do, no matter what the instrument of destruction used.

After viewing these fire images, be sure to check out the Inferno Fireproof test clip at the bottom of the post and see for yourself how a simple coat of PAINT can keep you, and your family from losing everything in such a devastating event.

For more information on Inferno Fireproof Paint please visit http://www.hardlifestyle.com/inferno.html

The Station Fire in Los Angeles as seen from space.

Smoke-filled skies hang over Dodger Stadium and downtown Los Angeles from the Station Fire.

Photo: Shannon Farren/KFI News

An L.A. County Fire Dept. Firehawk helicopter makes a water drop in Little Tujunga Canyon Tuesday where the Station Fire was threatening homes and ranches. (Eric Leonard/KFI NEWS)

An L.A. County Fire Dept. Firehawk helicopter maneuvers in Little Tujunga Canyon where crews were working Tuesday to protect several ranches and homes from the Station Fire. (Eric Leonard/KFI NEWS)

Photo: Shannon Farren/KFI News

The charred remains of a pickup truck and gas cans sit near a burned garage August 31, 2009 near Acton, California. The out of control Station Fire has burned more than 85,000 acres and has forced thousands of evacuations as nearly 10,000 homes are threatened.

The Station Fire in the Angeles National Forest nearly doubled in size Sunday night, threatening 12,000 homes in a 20-mile-long stretch of flame and smoke. Photo: Timothy J. Vrieling

Photo: Timothy J. Vrieling

Photo: Aron Bender

Station Fire in Los Angeles. Photo: Louis Katz

Station Fire smoke plume as seen from Granada Hills, Balboa Blvd and Devonshire.Charles Wolf

An S-2 air tanker drops fire retardant behind a home on Angeles Crest Highway Friday as flames from a fire burning in the national forest threatened hundreds of homes. (Eric Leonard/KFI NEWS)

Firefighters watch as an air tanker drops fire retardant behind homes in the La Canada foothills Friday. (Eric Leonard/KFI NEWS)

Station Fire from Sunland/Tujunga. ‘We have watched fire started east and steadily burned through canyons around us. We are now nearly covered by fire lines for about 180 degrees to north.’Matthew Paige

Inferno Fireproof Paint is put to the test Hollywood Style on Paint Misbehavin TLC Show. For more information on Inferno visit http://hardlifestyle.com/inferno.html

Stealth Technology For The Streets

HARD Lifestyle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:29:17 +0000

Take a look at Steve Flanagan and the cast of TLC’s Paint Misbehavin as they build a cop car worthy of the next Star Trek movie. This cloaking cop car transforms from an unmarked to a fully marked police unit right before your eyes. Look out David Copperfield, there’s new magicians in town and they’re playing with the latest High-Tech custom paints.

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HARD Assault on Inferno Fireproof Paint

HARD Lifestyle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:06:50 +0000

Fireproof Paint? That’s right, you may have heard of it before or maybe not BUT the guys at HARD Lifestyle have some and they have put it to the ultimate test! This clip highlights the Inferno Fireproof Paint they recently featured on the show Paint Misbehavin which premiered June 25th 2009 on the TLC Network. With the fire department on hand these guys launch an assault with flamethrowers, mortars and more in an attempt to prove the fire stopping ability of one of the hottest products around!

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High Tech Paint Makes Color Changing Cop Car

HARD Lifestyle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:29:53 +0000

Jeff Mersey and Steve Flanagan prepare to paint The Cloaking Cop Car while filming the Paint Misbehavin Television Show on TLC.

Laying out the HARDWAY PATROL Logos Steve and Jeff get started on first applying the vinyl to the cop car doors.

Insuring the HARDWAY PATROL Logos are in place, Steve and Jeff quickly lay down the vinyl turning this ordinary Escalade into a black and white police unit as seen on TLC’s Paint Misbehavin Show.

Jeff Mersey checks out the “To Serve and Profit 911″ Logos for placement on front fenders of the police car.

“To Serve And Profit 911″ logos find their way on the front fenders. These too will play a part in the cloaking cop car project.

Steve makes some final vinyl trimming and the police car will be ready for the color changing Heatwave Paint.

HARDWAY PATROL Logo

Jeff Mersey loads up his paint gun and goes to town as he paints the vinyl doors with the Heatwave Paint.

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Check out the flash as the doors change from black to white.
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HOT WHEELS

HARD Lifestyle — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:07:01 +0000

Story By Tammy Marashlian
Signal Staff Writer

Twenty-two-year-old Robbie Argote-Carrillo and his mom Stacee Carrillo embrace outside their Canyon Country home with his new custom made wheelchair designed by Steve Flanagan of the television show “Paint Misbehavin’.”

Francisca Rivas (The Signal)

Up until last month, 22-year-old Robbie Argote-Carrillo used an old, basic wheelchair that wasn’t too comfortable.

But with help from artist Steve Flanagan from the new TLC television show “Paint Misbehavin’“, that “thrashed” wheelchair is no more.

The Canyon Country resident, who has cerebral palsy, now gets around in a personalized, red wheelchair with flame designs.

The family has seen a change in Robbie since the gift of the wheelchair.

“He sits up better in this one,” said Stacee Carrillo, Robbie’s mom.

Robbie proudly agreed.

“It’s comfortable,” he said.

Flanagan’s original wheelchair to Argote-Carrillo, presented in May, featured heat-reactive paint that changed from red to pink.

A second wheelchair was created only with the color red and flames, after Argote-Carrillo didn’t like the pink.

The wheelchair was the fourth for Argote-Carrillo, who began using one during his childhood.

As an added bonus, TLC camera crews followed Argote-Carrillo and his family for a segment on the show that debuted last week.

Carrillo recalled the filming, which she said gave her son a chance to shine in the spotlight.

“He was pretty excited about it,” she said.

Carrillo was especially pleased that the show spotlighted the needs of people with disabilities.

Throughout the show, cameras followed Robbie and his family from Smart & Final grocery store in Newhall to their Canyon Country home.

Argote-Carrillo worked at Smart & Final for six months while he was a student at Transitional Learning Charter, a William S. Hart Union High School District school that teaches disabled adults life skills.

Argote-Carrillo, who attended Valencia High School before starting at the charter school, was able to take part in community-based instruction. Attending the charter school allowed Argote-Carrillo to become more independent as he learned daily activities, like how to take the bus, Carrillo said.

Earlier this month, Argote-Carrillo graduated from Transitional Learning Charter after two years at the school.

“It was a great program,” she said.

For more on Robbie and Paint Misbehavin Show visit www.hardlifestyle.com

Paint Misbehavin TLC Show (SPECIAL PROMOTION)

HARD Lifestyle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:55:00 +0000

To promote the airing of the show on TLC Paint Misbehavin, HARD Lifestyle is offering an extra 500 sq. ft. of chroming materials FREE with every purchase of the Gemini Chrome System. That’s right get your machine now and get an extra 500 sq. ft. of materials FREE. Have a spray set up in your shop? Can you paint? Well NOW you can chrome! This system produces a 100% chrome like finish on virtually ANY substrate. Wood, Plastic, Glass, Rubber, Metals and even Styrofoam can all be given a mirror finish using the Gemini Chrome System. This 3 step process of a basecoat, chrome coat, and topcoat provide a durable scratch and chemical resistant finish for years to come. Head over to www.HardLifeStyle.com and get started now.

NEW Custom Paint Show on TLC (Paint Misbehavin)

HARD Lifestyle — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:55:49 +0000

TLC’s New Hit Show Paint Misbehavin (Steve Flanagan – The Ringleader)

Steve Flanagan and cast debuted Thursday night June 25th on TLC and TLC-HD with Paint Misbehavin. Paint Misbehavin’ follows Steve Flanagan and his crew of merry “paintsters” as they set out to show the world a whole new way to look at paint. We guarantee you’ll never look at paint quite the same way again. These guys have paints that change from heat, UV and more. They specialize in chrome paint and are even delving into the world of cutting edge tattoo inks. Look for Steve Flanagan and crew to take the paint world to new levels and let’s hope TLC is along to catch it all.

TLC’s Paint Misbehavin color changing cop car

The premiere episode featured Steve and cast as they set out to create the cop car of the future combining both the Heatwave Paint (temperature causes color to change) and radiant heaters in the doors to make the door switch from all black to black and white and reveal the cleverly designed HARDWAY PATROL LOGO. This Escalade is truly “cutting-edge” and could change the face of law enforcement with its total cloaking ability, able to switch from an unmarked surveillance unit to a completely marked black and white pursuit truck.

TLC’s Paint Misbehavin – Steve puts the Inferno fireproof paint to the test

The initial episode of Paint Misbehavin also featured the guys building up a demonstration wall and painting it with the fireproof paint Inferno. We then see Steve Flanagan with flamethrower in hand giving the fireproof paint the ultimate test. As the team continues to assault the wall Steve takes a few minutes to go behind the wall and experience fire protection first hand, ultimately “standing behind” this incredible paint LITERALLY!

TLC’s Paint Misbehavin – Steve and the guys build Robbie a HOT brand new wheelchair

Rest assured this show is not all tattoos and flamethrowers we also see a great “heartfelt” moment as Steve and the guys hook up a very special kid named Robbie who suffers from Cerebral Palsy and was stuck in what was a less than appealing completely dilapidated chair. Steve promises Robbie a HOT brand new chair designed after his favorite movies including The Fast and The Furious. Steve and Sam set in to making a real hot chair for Robbie and the Paint Misbehavin crew plan to present it to Robbie just in time for his upcoming graduation. It’s great to see the joy that the simplest of tasks can provide to somebody’s life. This team spends a lot of time coming up with REALLY big stunts but this heart touching moment seemed just as “grand” especially to Robbie and his friends and family who all turned out to see Robbie get presented with his spectacular chair.

See all this and more on TLC and TLC-HD’s Paint Misbehavin’. Find out more about Steve Flanagan and find complete show coverage at www.HardLifeStyle.com. What are you waiting for get on over there and sign up now for the email list to receive future updates as soon as they are announced.