The 420 on Bone China and Ceramic Apple Pipes from Awmoo and Lisa Sitko.

Ever scrounge around looking for something to serve as a makeshift vessel with which you can indulge in smoking your medically prescribed marijuana? Or some loose tobacco? Perhaps a piece of fruit or a toilet paper roll?

Well, search no longer. Awmoo And sculptor Lisa Sitko have created elegant alternatives of bone china and ceramic based on the design of the apple as pipe.





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Carefully hand-made out of bone china in the United States, and priced at $150 USD, they are now taking pre-orders on their web site.


Lisa Sitko Ceramic Apple Pipes:
Another available apparatus based on the apple as pipe:


Buy the $80 ceramic Apple sculptures by Lisa Sitko

Also available is the Glass Apple Bubbler:

New Candid Canisters By Jonathan Adler.

Jonathan Adler has just added a slew of new high-fired porcelain stoneware containers to his collection of "Candid Canisters." From Peyote to Peroxide, the eight new storage boxes are glazed in high gloss black and white stripes. Eyelashes, Caffeine, Dope, Ganja, Shrooms, Peyote, Pep Pills and Peroxide vary slightly in size, but each comes with a matching lid and makes it chic to hide your stash or vice.






There's even one for your dog:

Buy them here.

Previous Candid Canisters in the collection:

Please note that all shown canisters vary in size. For prices, measurements and to purchase, go to Jonathan Adler.

Bottles Of Bud. Canna Cola Launches Five Flavored Pot-Laced Sodas.

If you've been following the news, there's been quite a bit of 'buzz', pardon the pun, about Canna Cola, a new line of THC-infused carbonated beverages for intended sale at medicinal marijuana dispensaries.



The five flavored medical marijuana soda pops; Canna Cola, Orange Kush, Sour Diesel, Grape Ape and Doc Weed are the brain child of multi-talented designer, concert photographer, political cartoonist and entrepreneur Clay Butler.




Scott Ridell of Diavolo Brands, who created the products along with Clay [they are not marketing it... that was an error in the Santa Cruz Sentinel article], says the beverage line's dosage of THC will be "somewhere between 35 to 65 milligrams" and that that "the levels of THC in his line of soft drinks will be substantially below the levels of many drinks now on the market." He likened his product to a "light beer" alongside high-proof liquors.



Although there are several THC laced sodas on the market, most are produced in small batches and lack the marketing effort of a larger brand. Kushtown Sodas and Dixie Elixirs are two examples.

Clay, a self-proclaimed "clean living guy" says he's never even smoked a cigarette, let alone marijuana.


above: Clay and some of his Soda Pot (photo for Santa Cruz Sentinel by Bill Lovejoy)

An article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel quotes Clay as saying "Marijuana sodas do exist in the marketplace. But, said Butler, none of them have the branding savvy of his product.

"You look at all the marijuana products out there, and they are so mom-and-pop, hippie-dippy, and rinky dink," he said. "If someone can put every color on the rainbow on it, they do. If they can pick the most inappropriate and unreadable fonts, they will. And there's marijuana leaves on everything. It's a horrible cliché in the industry."

Kushtown's THC-infused sodas and sauces:


Dixie Elixir changed their original marijuana leaf logos:

to a more subtle, but difficult to read, design:

Butler's epiphany was to market the THC-laced sodas "how Snapple or Coca-Cola or Minute Maid would make a marijuana beverage, if they ever chose to do it."

Thus, he used the marijuana leaf - it's an unavoidable part of the "brand DNA" of marijuana products, he said - but he designed a leaf made of bubbles (shown below), to suggest soda pop.


above: Clay Butler designed the logo and bottle designs for the Soda Pot.

Clay's graphic design skills came in handy. The bottles have fabulously fun imagery and clever names.

The sodas are intended to be priced at between $10 and $15 for each 12 oz bottle and are planned for launch in medical marijuana-friendly Colorado next month. California, however, remains a wild card. THC-infused sodas cannot be transported across state lines according to Federal laws (despite individual state laws regarding medicinal marijuana use), so the product would have to be manufactured in California to be sold there.

Plans are tentatively to have it in California dispensaries in the spring.

Canna Cola on Facebook

Read the Santa Cruz Sentinel article

Plenty Of Pot-Related Posts For 420.

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Designing Doobies: 4 Firms Take A Whack At Repackaging Pot

Pop Artist Kenny Scharf Bongs? Are You High?

For The 420-Friendly Fashionista; Silk Marijuana Scarves by Peckham Rye

Stoned Eau de Parfum (and scented candle) by Solange Azagury-Partridge:

Created for the acclaimed English jeweler Solange Azagury-Partridge by the renowned perfumer Lynn Harris. Stoned perfume, $285. Candle, $60.00, buy them here

Jonathan Adler's Hashish candle in ceramic marijuana leaf container:

68$, buy it here

Bong Spirit Vodka from Holland

learn about it here.

and finally...

Someone tell Officer Sanchez That You Cannot Overdose On Marijuana

And Happy 420!

For The 420-Friendly Fashionista; Silk Marijuana Scarves by Peckham Rye

Reflecting the humor of British style, Peckham Rye (cockney rhyming slang for tie) is a collection of slim blade ties in printed, woven and knitted silk, 'Cockney Chokers', slim tubular scarves in eccentric paisleys and luxurious handmade silk scarves, uniquely lined in spun silk.



Brand new are these three limited edition scarves, designed exclusively for 20ltd., adorned with marijuana leaves in white on green, white on brown or blue on gold.



Made of spun silk & woven silk, the marijuana leaf scarves are available in only 15 editions of each.





No. of editions: 15
Delivery Time: Immediate
buy them here.
(all images and info courtesy of 20ltd)


Wanna see some other super hip silk scarves? For the ladies in your life?

Be sure to check out the Unruly Scarves here.

Pop Artist Kenny Scharf Bongs? On Sale? Are You High?

Cerealart, the Philadelphia gallery of artist multiples, is selling ceramic sculptures that also function as bongs, by pop artist Kenny Scharf. Available in limited editions of white, purple, green or orange, and one-of-a-kind hand painted ones, each is stamped signed on the bottom.


above: Cereal Art’s Debbie Mangel with a bong by Kenny Scharf

The Purple, Orange and Green versions shown below are on sale through Nov.15, 2009:


above: Object To Enjoy (Orange, Green or Purple), Kenny Scharf
Size: 9 x 5 x 15.5 inches /23 x 13 x 39.4 cm
Material: Ceramic
Edition: 200 of each (orange, green or purple), stamp signed

At $400 dollars a piece, the three colors shown above are presently on sale for 25% off through November 15, 2009. Visit www.cerealart.com and enter the coupon code KSOBJECT to receive the 25% discount.


NOTE: Unless you are a card carrying legalized medical marijuana user, smoking marijuana is illegal. This sculpture / pipe is for tobacco use only.

The ceramic sculpture/pipe below is also available in white, but limited to only 50 and not on sale:

above: Object to Enjoy (note: white is not on sale)
Size: 9 x 5 x 15.5 inches /23 x 13 x 39.4 cm
Material: Ceramic
Edition: 50, stamp signed
Price: $450.00 USD

And the following limited edition Objects (not eligible for the discount), are each one of a kind and hand painted by Kenny Scharf:


Size: 15.5” h x 9” w x 5” d/ 39.4cm h x 23cm w x 13cm d
Material: Ceramic and Metal
Edition: From an edition of 25 unique individual pieces hand-painted by Kenny Scharf.
Price: $6,500.00


About Cerealart: Cerealart develops, produces and distributes a range of three-dimensional visual artist's multiples. The sculptural designs are conceptualized by critically acclaimed internationally recognized contemporary artists who are interested in exploring the possibilities presented by consumer culture. Authorship is published and highlighted as an integral part of each work.

The designs are limited production editions and are distributed through Cerealart, Museums and galleries throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, Asia and Australia and New Zealand.

Some of Kenny Scharf's recent work:

above: Kenny Scharf, Purplosion, 2009, oil and silkscreen on linen,72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm), Paul Kasmin Gallery


above: Kenny Scharf, Journey to the Center, 2009, oil, acrylic, and silkscreen ink on linen, 84 x 84 inches (213.4 x 213.4 cm), Paul Kasmin Gallery


above: Kenny Scharf, Chocolate Glazed with Sprinkles in Space, 2008, oil on linen, 40 x 40 inches (101.6 x 101.6 cm); framed: 41 x 41 inches(104.1 x 104.1 cm), Paul Kasmin Gallery

Artist Bio:
Kenny Scharf was born in Hollywood. His work is instantly recognizable, with idiosyncratic cartoon creatures popping up in the oddest of places: in paintings, on functional objects, or piled up on top of each other to form huge totem poles. Scharf shot to prominence in New York during the 80s as part of the deeply influential generation of artists that emerged at that time.

He was part of an East Village trio with Keith Haring, his studio mate, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His artwork has been exhibited extensively and can be found in numerous international museum collections including The Guggenheim Museum and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The Eli Broad Foundation in Los Angeles and The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Kenny Scharf is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery - 293 Tenth Ave. New York, NY 10001 and 511 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 -

KENNY SCHARF

Cerealart
149 N. 3rd Street
Philadelphia Pa 19106
215.627.5060
www.cerealart.com

If you admire artful bongs, be sure to see this post on luxury hookahs, water pipes and bongs.


Or see more Airdiem, Meduse, Hurricane, Roor and hand-blown Illadelph bongs here.