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4/20 is approaching so we’re having a Phototron Giveaway Contest. It’s easy to enter and Win. Check our Facebook Page daily and look for special “Win A Phototron Contest” Picture Posts.

Each picture will contain a Phototron Grow System in a famous indoor or roofed location. Identify the location and visit our contest page at www.phototron.com/contest to submit your answer. You can submit one entry for every individual contest photo we post. Enter for your chance to win and celebrate this 4/20 growing your own!

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Chronic Ice introduces their new flavors this week at the Big Industry Show in Las Vegas. The new flavors are Peach Perfection, The Grape Escape & a hemp Ginger Ale. Visit the the website for more info www.ChronicIceTea.com

Pastries made with pot are nothing new. Brownies and cookies are both go-to options if you’re looking to take dessert to a higher level, but what about everything else you eat during a meal? Is it possible to have an entire meal that involves everyone’s favorite leafy green? The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook has more than 50 irresistible recipes that will get you high. Recipes for everything from Time Warp Tamales to Sativa Shrimp Spring Rolls to Pico de Ganja Nachos to Pineapple Express Upside-Down Cake are laid out in just the right amount of detail and with high quality photographs. With this cookbook we can all be budding chefs. 

You’ve got two options when rocking your Beats by Dre headphones: Look like every other person who happens to have the exact same pair or do what Lil Wayne did, and encrust them with a million dollars worth of diamonds. Frankly, we don’t care for either option. While we do love our Beats, we don’t like to conform to the masses too much, and while we would trick out a pair with some bling, we just used a coupon for a buy one, get one deal at Subway. So what are the options?  Well, Lazerwood, the company who makes the custom iPhone cases, has released their Beats skins (or “mods” as they call them).  For 35 bucks, your headphones will stand out thanks to the real wood adhesives. Choose either Cherry or Walnut and your Beats will look like they reek of rich mahogany.

Following previous team-ups with the likes of French conceptual artist Daniel Buren, Hermès has announced its latest limited edition scarf collaboration will be with Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. The partnership is in honor of the third edition of the luxury label’s Hermès Editeur project, which intertwines the world of fine arts and crafts with the realm of textiles. Sugimoto’s limited edition silk scarves have been inspired by his “Colors of Shadow” project, and will be presented at the Art Basel contemporary art fair this June.

Hermès creative director Pierre-Alexis Dumas and Sugimoto chose 20 of the artist’s Polaroids depicting color gradations to be printed by ink-jet on silk twill. The limited edition line will be small scale, with WWD reporting March 26 that only seven of each design will be produced. The first two series of Hermès Editeur comprised a series honoring Bauhaus artist Josef Albers and a scarf collection in 2010 featuring prints from Buren’s travels. Art Basel and its sister event Art Basel Miami Beach frequently attract big name fashion/artist collaborations, with the latter’s December 2011 edition showcasing Christian Dior’s collaboration with German artist Anselm Reyle on a collection of accessories including handbags and shoes.

Click Here to listen to Georgia Reign's first leaked single -- GTFOH! 

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A full year after Kanye West first debuted his signature black Air Yeezy 2 sneakers in The Black Mamba short film, Nike has released the first detailed photos of the Wolf Grey/Pure Platinum colorway. The Nike Air Yeezy 2 is set for release on April 13th, 2012 at premium footwear outlets worldwide and will retail for $250.

Tatyana Mityushina for the Spring '12 collection of Intimissimi.

After flogging coffee, whisky and Martini in recent years, actor George Clooney will be adding tequila to his ever-lengthening CV and plans to launch his own brand with Cindy Crawford’s nightlife impresario husband. Clooney and Rande Gerber will be sharing a Mexican tequila they’ve been drinking for years with the mass market.

The product will be named after the homes both men own in Mexico, Casamigos. Clooney is the latest celebrity to dabble in booze. Recently, Drew Barrymore also ventured into the winemaking business with the launch of her eponymously named bottle Barrymore Pinot Grigio from Italy.

The biggest problem with hip hop culture today is how close it is to mainstream pop culture. Now, this isn’t hip hop’s fault, the music does the best it can to stay true to where it came from and rap about the real things that people want to hear. But the problem is that fake record executives at the largest labels and media giants hijack the music of hip hop’s greatest artists and distribute that music any way they want to make a quick buck.            

Don’t believe me? Watch a rapper’s career grow. See them begin to sell some records and gain notoriety in the underground.  And then an exec will see that they can make some money off of that artist. Suddenly, what was once a burgeoning MC breathing life back into hip hop culture is pretending to play a guitar while skinny jeans?

I don’t think one can hate it too much though. More exposure means more chances for hip hop messages to affect a wider audience. I was at Target the other day and suddenly I recognized the music that was playing over their otherwise bland radio system. It was “Niggas in Paris” off of Jay-Z and Kanye’s Watch the Throne.  At first I felt cheated. One of the best records this year was being played for soccer moms and other suburbanites who were just there to save money on bulk toothpaste. But then I got to thinking, maybe this is exactly where hip hop culture needs to be; subversive, penetrating into the complacent living room like N.W.A., Tupac, and Eminem did in the past.

I guess all that hip hop can do is be real to itself. People are going to try and take advantage and we may lose some good talent on the way, but labels like KBMD are where hip hop culture is going to survive. Check out the Kush Boys Music Department, or the newest compilation on iTunes for some real hip hop music, from real artists. 

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If you are looking for some creative throw pillows to help liven up your space, look no further than Livingstones. These modular, practical pillows are perfect for any atmosphere.

Livingstones are a high quality, oversized pebble pillow. These floor cushions are great for children, and help adults tap their inner child, accenting any cotemporary interior wonderfully. The Livingstones are constructed from 100% virgin wool, in come in a multitude of shapes and sizes. Production takes about 8 weeks after the order is placed.

Megaphone is a passive ceramic amplifier designed to amplify the better sound output from Iphone. This retro dock has no batteries or cords, just a big ceramic horn to boost your iPhone’s sound.

Julia Frauche and male model Luca S pose for David Vasiljevic’s lens in the new Gucci eyewear campaign shot for the spring season.

Natural high-techì is the concept of this new modular, sustainable & transportable low-energy house. Made entirely of local wood, the building provides 47 m≤ of living space with a minimal CO2 footprint: local suppliers and local crafts using local long-lasting and recyclable materials manufactured with the precision and care of tyrolese handwork. The Fincube is a materialized vision of a small housing unit with a long lifecycle. It can easily be dismantled and rebuilt on a new site, and even more important for nature hideaways: it requires minimum soil sealing – just 2 m≤ that are easily renatured after the Fincube is moved to another location. Technology wise the Fincube is a smart house – all vital house-functions are controlled by a central touchpanel.

Meanwhile at the bottling company...

It's Monday again--how many of you will be doing this at work?

With summer right around the corner, you might find yourself more often in the woods. Tentsile offers an alternative solution to camping with its tent hammock combination. The tent is attached from three trees and suspends the tend in the air leaving room for 5 to 12 occupants. This solution might also keep you away from things at ground that might harm you.

PayPal today announced PayPal Here, the world’s first global mobile payments solution that allows small businesses to accept almost any form of payment. The new service includes a free app and fully encrypted thumb-sized card reader, which turns any iPhone, and soon Android smartphone, into a mobile payment solution. With PayPal Here, small businesses, service providers and casual sellers can send invoices or accept debit and credit cards, checks and PayPal using one simple product. The updated PayPal app for iPhone is available in the iOS App Store globally starting today.

Every time you hear the name Koenigsegg, you can bet that the Earth beneath you trembles a little bit. The rumble increases even more with the introduction of the 2013 models of the Agera and Agera R. Both updates will feature more horsepower (as if the stock wasn’t overflowing already). It achieves this through nano surfaces on the cylinder sleeves to reduce friction and for better fuel efficiency. If you must know, the Agera now has 960hp while the Agera R has a mind-boggling 1,140. Both models will come with a carbon fiber body, strengthened with Koenigsegg’s Aircore Technology, supported by carbon fiber wheels on a Triplex suspension and steadied by the Koenigsegg Electronic Stability system. $TBD.

Linsanity continues on...

Master Kush is the long standing action animation offering from Kush Boys Worldwide. The story of Master Akira Kushimota’s battle against the Iluminazi Central Union (ICU) has expanded to a web toon, a web comic, and a graphic novel, rounding out its status as a premier player in the dynamic adult animation market. What is it about Master Kush that makes the comic so enduring and popular?

Master Kush is essentially Bruce Lee mixed with Marlon Brando and a little of Afro Samurai thrown in. Master Kush is a retired badass who seeks to live out his final days in peace and further training in the martial arts. His family and friends that inhabit the comic’s world are similarly well-meaning, aptly named characters that aid and entertain Master Kush during his numerous battles with the ICU. The comic combines the best elements of action, comedy, and cannabis; imagine if the cast of The Expendables was dropped into the world of Up in Smoke and maybe you can get a feel for what this comic is about.

To put a spark into the Master Kush franchise, Kush Boys Worldwide is in the process of producing a few new Master Kush offerings, while keeping current with the new-age pop culture. The first will be an online comic strip featuring Master Kush and all his usual pals. Andrew Todd and Drue Young are working on the strip which will take a more comical tone and update regularly with relevant and topical material, jabbing at politicians, popular event, and the media.

The second offering will be a web series that will show Master Kush’s exploits in full animation and with a killer hip-hop soundtrack. Animation by the brilliant Hong Ying Universe animation team will bring Master Kush’s LA to life with explosions, fight scenes, and zingers. The web series has already garnered internet buzz with its number one ranking on Animation Nation at the time of its debut.

Just as celebrities have gotten in line to support other Kush Boys Worldwide ventures such as Chronic Ice, Master Kush is garnering wide celebrity acclaim. Mark Wahlberg, Academy Award nominated actor and all around bad ass, lauded the Master Kush project by saying, “Master Kush has great potential. I look for the project to do big things.”

Star of Eragon and Friday Night Lights, Garrett Hedlund, also throws his support behind the project stating that “There's going to be a little bit of Master Kush in everybody. I am looking forward to more episodes.”

Keep visiting Kush Boys Worldwide for the latest, up-to-date info on Master Kush’s expanding saga.

Gucci has presented the first images of its “Forever Now” campaign featuring Princess of Monaco Charlotte Casiraghi, daughter of Caroline of Monaco. A young show jumper, Charlotte Casiraghi was photographed in an equestrian setting. The princess models items featuring the brand’s signature red and green stripes in a campaign celebrating its heritage.

A young equestrian show jumper, she has been called a natural choice for the brand since she has attended several editions of the Gucci Masters — including the last edition where she competed in the International Jumping Competition. Casiraghi follows in the footsteps of Evan Rachel Wood and Natasha Poly, who have also represented the Italian fashion house.

Christoper George Latore Wallace 

May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997

As with all things, when donating to help the cause of "Kony 2012" know who you are donating too. The picture above is of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan People’s Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is “better equipped than that of any of the other affected countries”, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasn’t been since 2006 by their own admission.

Read more at visiblechildren.tumblr.com

Today apple anounced "The new iPad" ($500-$830) and it's brand new retina display, powered by a high performance A5X chip with quad-core graphics. There's also a 5 megapixel iSight camera with 1080p HD video recording capability and for the first time, you can get built-in support for AT&T's and Verizon's 4G LTE networks.

Apple also today introduced the iPhoto app, along with major updates to iMovie and GarageBand, completing its suite of iLife apps for iOS. Like always, the latest iPad is available in black or white. It comes in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities. It will be available on March 16th.

The world’s biggest watch event opens in Basel, Switzerland, this week on the back of a bumper year thanks to Asian demand for luxury timepieces. Hublot, a subsidiary of French luxury goods group LVMH, will use the high-profile event to unveil “The $5 million” a watch comprising no less than 1,282 diamonds. “This is the most precious watch ever created by Hublot and its long-standing partner, Atelier Bunter in Geneva,” said Hublot.

The piece is the result of 14 months work, including that of a “master-cutter” from New York who fashioned the largest stones. The watch will be displayed under very tight security, a company spokeswoman said, and only select Baselworld attendees will even be allowed to view it.

Bentley has announced plans to offer a new executive interior package on the Mulsanne. The package offers two different specifications: Theater and iPad. The theater option includes a roof-mounted 15.6-inch LED display or two headrest-mounted 8-inch screens. There’s also a trunk-mounted Apple computer that has dual USB ports in the center console. An iPod touch allows users to control all of the installed technology with their finger tip, by means of a bespoke Bentley app.

The iPad Specification comes with two electrically-deployed veneered picnic tables for rear passengers, colour-matched to the seats of the Mulsanne, and at the press of a button twin iPads with wireless keyboards are revealed. Both rear passengers can work on documents or files independently, email, browse the internet, make video calls or play music or games.

The picnic tables are cleverly designed so that the keyboards can be easily removed and placed on the user’s lap for added comfort. Both the Theatre and iPad Specifications of Mulsanne Executive Interior can be specified wîth a range of finishing touches including a Tibaldi fountain pen from its specially commissioned Collection.

If you’re not in the mood for work, there’s a bottle cooler with space for 2 champagne bottles, and a frosted glass door hides three hand blown champagne flutes! The Bentley Mulsanne Executive Interior will be making its debut appearance during the upcoming 2012 Geneva Motor Show.

Toyko-based custom bike shop CHERUBIM introduces its Air Line model, a concept bicycle imagined and constructed by breaking all traditions and regulations that hinder creativity. Featuring a graceful red coat, the Air Line’s form is designed to avoid any right angles or hard edges that in typical bicycles cause wind resistance. Throughout the history of cycling, aero dynamics has been a central focus of designers, and the “Air Line” pushes the boundaries of physics in hopes of reaching new possibilities in terms of speed, in particular at the Velodrome and Hour Record time trials.

Ferrari has unveiled the fastest road-car it has ever produced, ahead of the vehicle’s debut at the Geneva Motor Show (March 8-18) The F12 Berlinetta can streak from 0-100km/h in 3.1 seconds and continue up to 200km/h in just 8.5 seconds, thanks to a host of powertrain and design changes. A futuristic bodyframe made out of new alloys has helped bring weight down to 1,525kg, less than the previous V12 Fiorano model, as well as increasing the structural integrity of the vehicle.

Underneath the hood is a 6.3-liter V12 that generates about 740 horsepower, Ferrari confirmed, more than its serious rival the Lamborghini Aventador. Extensive time in the wind tunnel has helped Ferrari boost downforce by 76 percent and significantly reduce drag, thanks to a hood design to channel air away from the top of the car and ‘Active Brake Cooling’, which only opens the guide vanes to the brake cooling ducts at high operating temperatures, reducing drag.

At the Baselworld 2012, Cartier will be presenting the new Tank Folle hand-wound ladies watch, a reincarnation of the legendary Cartier Crash from the late 1960s. Clearly influenced by Salvador Dali’s “liquid” clocks, the original watch was an homage to one of Cartier of London senior managers who died in a car crash. His wrist watch was deformed by fire to a degree of melting and some other member of staff took the destroyed timekeeper as a source of inspiration.

The 18K carat, white gold case is made from sapphire crystal, is water resistant to thirty meters, and is powered by a manual-wind Cartier caliber MC 8970 movement. The dial, which features Roman numerals, is decorated with 51 white diamonds weighing more than 1.6 carats. This surprising, creative and stylish Tank collection is available in a limited series of 200 timepieces.

Check out this amazing villa in Phuket, Thailand. The villa has six spacious guest rooms, each with its own ensuite bathroom and private balcony with uninterrupted views over the Andaman Sea. There are three king bedrooms and three twin rooms. Watch and enjoy!

All natural hemp products are on the move and Kush Boys Worldwide is on the cutting edge. Greenlight Beverages, a division of Kush Boys Worldwide, is picking up more and more distribution contracts to sell their line of all natural hemp tea called Chronic Ice. Chronic Ice is the first of its kind, an all natural tea that contains hemp oil as a health additive, and has a far more refreshing taste than common, unnatural teas and sodas that are already established in the market.

                Chronic Ice is healthier and tastier than traditional sodas and teas. The natural tea uses better ingredients, and is free of preservatives that affect taste and negatively affect the health of the drinker. This production of this all-natural alternative is causing many notable people to switch from drinking sodas to drinking the one-of-a-kind hemp tea. CEO of RepliCel Life Sciences, David Hall said that:

            “The health benefits of hemp seed and green and black teas are well documented, and the natural cane sugar in Chronic Ice is less processed than the high-fructose corn syrup used in many ready-to-drink teas and soft drinks on the shelves today. Consumers get all of the health benefits without sacrificing flavor.”

                The unique flavor of the natural tea is getting recognition from celebrities as well. Many notable celebrities have been seen enjoying Chronic Ice; including Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Tom Green, and Drake. “No one is sacrificing anything switching from soda or one of those sugary ready-to-drink teas you find everywhere to Chronic Ice. There’s simply no downside,” says Jamal Weathers, spokesman for Chronic Ice.

Chronic Ice, is produced with a black and green tea blend, and sweetened with pure sugar cane rather than high fructose corn syrups that are found in popular soda products. Plus, with the added benefit of hemp oil, the natural tea becomes even healthier. To get technical for a moment, hemp oil contains linoleic (57%) and linolenic (19%) acids in a ratio of 3:1. This is a perfect amount for the required dose of essential fatty acids (EFAs), which are acids that our bodies cannot produce on their own, yet still need to run efficiently. These oils improve cardiovascular health by decreasing the tendency of blood clots, and have an anti-inflammatory effect that does wonders for arthritis and immune system strength.

 People have been using hemp oil for years, but with the recent increase in cannabis research people are rediscovering the plant’s numerous (and now well documented) health benefits.  Chronic Ice was previously only available in Southern California, and has been since 2008, but Greenlight beverages recently worked out a deal with Hi Sea Distributers to bring the US’s first hemp tea to 60 stores on all seven of the Hawaiian main islands. And they’re not stopping there, Chronic Ice is gearing up with a fresh new look and two brand new flavors to compliment their current catalogue of tastes. Currently Chronic Ice comes in:

• Lemon (Classic)
• Unsweetened
• Black Cherry
• Blueberry & Grape
• Pineapple
• Ginger Ale (The first soda)
• And will soon be featured in Grape and Peach

For info about Chronic Ice’s future plans or to ask about sales call 1-877-523-9989, or email INFO@CHRONICICETEA.COM.  Do you and your body a favor and get ahead of the curve. Put down that fatty, soda or energy drink and switch to a natural hemp tea like Chronic Ice.