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How To Get Creative With Weed Pens In Day-To-Day Life?

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Weed pens are becoming increasingly popular as an effective way to vaporize cannabis and its derivatives. If you’re curious about the potential of using a weed pen, it could make your day-to-day experience smoother and more enjoyable. Not only are they discreet, but they are also incredibly easy to use and portable. Simply pick from various strains according to your need or desire, load your cannabis into the chamber, hit the button, and you’re ready to go! Thanks to this convenience, more people are embracing the idea of using weed pens in their everyday lives to quickly escape from reality without any mess or fuss.

6 Ways To Get Creative With Weed Pens In Day-To-Day Life

1. Create Art

Weed pens have become a popular way for many to experience the benefits of cannabis in an easy, discreet manner. With their versatility, modern vape pens also create an opportunity to create art.

This has led to a growth in what is known as “Vape Art”–a blend of fashion and functionality with larger-than-life vapor clouds being sculpted into shapes and designs. With weed pen technology evolving daily, more and more people are expected to enter this unique part of the cannabis culture to create art with vape pens––drawing on inspiration from new sources and manifesting that inspiration into something visible in real-time.

2. Use Them As An Aromatherapy Tool

Weed pens give users an alternative to traditional smoking and are discreet, easy to use, and can even provide a new way of expressing creativity. One great way to get creative with weed pens is using them as an aromatherapy tool.

This means using their various aromatic blends for essential oils to help combat discomfort or give off a refreshing scent after a tiring day. The vast movement of smoke from the device’s wand tip could act as a great means for aromatherapy relaxation, allowing users to revitalize their senses and calm their minds as needed.

All in all, weed pens offer several possibilities to explore to find something new and exciting that works best for you.

3. Add Unique Scents To Clothes

Smoking weed pens isn’t just a fashion statement anymore, it can be used to add unique scents to your clothes that last all day. This unique vaping technique releases fragrances and oils into the air, which can be easily trapped in textiles.

It’s an easy process and doesn’t require extra effort — just take a few puffs and pass the weed pen through the fabric, such as t-shirts or pants. This intriguing trend, paired with everyday functionality, provides an innovative experience that everyone should have a chance to try out!

The relaxing atmosphere, quality fragrances, and lasting scent make it worth putting in some effort to get creative with how you use your weed pens.

4. Make Your Perfume

The creative possibilities of weed pens are endless and can be adapted to fit any lifestyle. If you want to get creative, one way to do that is with the ancient art of perfume crafting. With a vape pen, you can use scents extracted from cannabis plants to make a unique fragrance for yourself or somebody else.

While this might sound complicated, it doesn’t have to be! All you need is a weed pen and essential oil. After performing simple steps like steeping and blending, you’ll have your own potent, aromatic perfume. Creating your DIY perfume is an unforgettable and innovative experience that can help you stand out in any crowd.

5. Scent Your Home

Vaping weed pens has become a distinct hobby even among home decor enthusiasts. With just a few subtle changes to your regular vaporizer routine, you can now scent your home and find refuge in the engaging aromas of marijuana.

Start by investing in high-quality weed-infused oil cartridges that replace your traditional flavors. Keep your vaporizer temperature low during inhalation for maximum results. As you vape, the micro-doses enable naturally generated aromatic molecules to travel across your living spaces, filling them with the desired fragrance that lingers on for hours.

The play of aromas emitted through vaping creates an interesting sensory environment and is an ideal way to start a relaxing evening when coupled with soothing music.

6. Bring Nature Indoors With Herb-Filled Pens

Nowadays, more and more people are looking for creative ways to bring the beauty of nature into their homes. One unexpected way to do this is with herb-filled weed pens. These pens are filled with fragrant herbs like lavender, rosemary, and chamomile, providing a pleasant scent in whatever room the pen is placed.

Not only do these plants smell great, but they also make a great decorative item that adds a natural touch to any space. Whether stored on or near a window to catch the sun in the afternoon or proudly displayed on a shelf or dresser, herb-filled pens will freshen up any room or office.

Why Is It Necessary To Get Creative With Weed Pens?

Weed pens provide a convenient way to consume cannabis without being encumbered by the paraphernalia associated with traditional consumption methods like bongs or papers. However, due to innovations in the cannabis industry, it is important for smokers and merchants to get creative with weed pens to ensure they stay ahead of the trends and competitors.

With an ever-increasing number of companies entering the space, brands that can offer something unique and interesting stand out more than those that don’t. Creative designs, interesting product names, and unique packaging all help set one weed pen apart. Getting creative with these aspects can help consumers decide which brand they want to pick up next.

Are Weed Pens Legal?

Weed pens, also known as vape pens, are a vaporizer that allows users to inhale variations of cannabis concentrates. Depending on your location, these devices’ possession and sale can vary significantly in legality. In the US, possessing weed pens in 33 states for medicinal purposes and in 11 states for recreational use is legal. Additionally, certain types of cannabis, such as CBD, may be legally purchased even if recreational marijuana is not yet legalized in the state. However, it is essential to always check your local laws before purchasing any marijuana product or device, as laws can change quickly and without warning.

Making Art While You’re High at It

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Text and Photos by Jeff Najar.

I sent some tins to Atomic Bob in Ohio to do some of his magic.

You might be familiar with Mr. Atomic. He’s become part of the 5-Ball Racing Team by Bandit. His company is Atomic Dice.

With Atomic Bob, you never know what you will get back, but you do know it will be cool and you do know it will be out of the box. Mr. Atomic always pulls it off.

Each letter is unique but they also flow together. And their size fills the space on the sides of the tank.

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The Salt Torpedo is to be raced at Bonneville Salt Flats. Illustrations on by Atomic Bob.

AMA Champion Roland Sands and Nitro Circus star Andy Bell team up

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Roland Sands, left, Andy Bell and Erik Bond inside the joint headquarters of Roland Sands Design and Sweatpants Media

from https://lbbusinessjournal.com/ by Brandon Richardson

‘Nitro Circus’ star, ex-motorcycle racer team up to open creative business campus in Zaferia

A gearhead and an adrenaline junkie meet at a trade show. There is no punchline.

Andy Bell and Roland Sands hit it off immediately nearly 20 years ago and have been friends ever since. The two went on to create separate businesses—Roland Sands Design and Sweatpants Media—and, after years of operating out of their respective headquarters, have come together to create a joint home base in Long Beach’s Zaferia neighborhood.

The companies together purchased a multi-building property at 1365 Obispo Ave. with a vision for a creative campus. Along with their firms, the graphics company Spin Imaging and Moxi Roller Skates also will call the campus home in a building separate from Sands’ and Bell’s space.

“We just wanted like-minded but different companies here to fuel a vibe of people that are stoked and doing rad stuff,” Bell said.

“People we can hang out with,” Sands added. “Fabrication, 3D fabrication, film, photography, graphics, printing—it’s all here. Almost any project is possible here, and that’s a pretty special thing.”

The friends almost missed out on the space, Sands said. The building was listed in 2018, but he was not in a position to take on the project by himself—and Bell was not ready to jump into such a massive undertaking. But when another buyer went into escrow on the site, the pair said they instantly knew they made a mistake.

“This place was built in the ’40s, and it’s gorgeous,” Sands said.

After months in escrow, the deal fell through, and Bell and Sands pounced. They bought the property for about $3 million in July 2019.

The Roland Sands Design custom motorcycle shop inside the company’s new Long Beach headquarters

The tenant had a few months left on their lease, so the roughly $2.5 million buildout did not get underway until just before the pandemic, which slowed progress on the rehab. But after nearly two years, the companies are celebrating their grand opening Saturday.

The space features a retail store (open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.), a screening theater, 3D and other fabrication facilities, a wood-working space, a motorcycle garage, design rooms and a slew of offices. It also includes a bar, a two-chair barbershop for special events for clients that could also be utilized by a tattoo artist, and dozens of motorcycles and helmets on display.

A third building is currently set up as a jam space for musician friends of Bell and Sands. The room has a stage and is full of vintage and modern musical equipment. The two said they have toyed with the idea of turning it into a legitimate music venue, but that won’t happen until well into the future, if at all.

Bell and Sands each had a career riding motorcycles—the latter racing on the roads of the U.S., the former flying through the air in freestyle motocross—before they met each other in the early 2000s at a motorcycle trade show in Indianapolis.

Sands, a Long Beach native, grew up around motorcycles.

“I was fully immersed in the culture because my dad was in the motorcycle industry,” Sands said, adding that he would work in his dad’s shop as a kid.

In 2005, after a racing career that included winning the 1998 American Motorcyclist Association 250cc Grand Prix Championship, Sands turned his success—and name—into a brand. The firm specializes in creating custom bikes and parts (some of which are 3D-printed). The company has grown to include a clothing and apparel line as well as a racing team.

Bell, meanwhile, was not so much into the technical side of the sport.

“I’m more of an adrenaline junkie,” Bell said, sitting in his new office complete with a beer tap. “I never liked building and working on the s—, I liked riding and jumping them.”

After his professional freestyle motocross career, Bell went on to become a stuntman, appearing on numerous TV shows and films, including “Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory” and “Jackass 3D.” Most notably, Bell starred in the “Nitro Circus” films and MTV series alongside Travis Pastrana and a host of other extreme-sport athletes.

Bell founded Sweatpants Media in 2012.

“I needed a change from getting hurt for a living and all the crap we used to do,” Bell said. “I didn’t know anything about production, but I’d been around it as talent. I’ve never owned a real business before and a decade later, here we are.”

Today, Sweatpants has numerous high-end clients, including Toyota, Red Bull, Mercedes, Lexus and Japanese powertool manufacturer Makita. With over 15 million views on YouTube, Sweatpants’ “The Pitch” for Toyota was the most widely viewed commercial in the U.S. in the third quarter, Bell said.

“The Pitch” – 2022 Toyota GR Supra Commercial by Sweatpants Media (15 million+ views since June 2021)

Bell and Sands try to utilize each other and their respective businesses as much as possible. The companies have teamed up on projects, including creating a custom bike for BMW with an accompanying video. After the premiere, the pair and their wives rode BMW bikes around Italy’s Lake Como.

On another project, Sweatpants flew three Toyota trucks into Vietnam and then drove them across the country. Sands and Bell were two of the three drivers who made the trek.

“We don’t like to fake s—,” Bell said. “Instead of pretending we were in Vietnam and pretending we flew trucks under helicopters, we actually did it. There is a tinge of adventure in everything we do.”

“We like to combine work and play,” Sands added.

Sands convinced Bell to move into a house around the corner from his on Naples Island in 2010. The best friends were neighbors for years before Sands moved to Park Estates.

For the last 12 years, Los Alamitos was home to Sands’ business, but he said he has always wanted to open a space in his hometown, closer to where he lives. For nearly nine years, Sweatpants operated out of the historic Villa Riviera in Downtown. But the two are looking forward to the quasi-business merger.

“We’re stoked. It’s fun being best friends and business partners,” Bell said. “There’s a little bit of yelling and a lot of hugging; a lot of wanting to punch each other and then a lot of wanting to drink beers together.”

“Thankfully for us,” Sands added, “we want to drink with each other more than we want to fight.”

The Roland Sands Design retail space at the company’s new joint headquarters with Sweatpants Media

Brat Style Custom Indian Super Chief

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Go Takamine Adds Classic Vintage Touch to the 2022 Indian Super Chief

by Neil Storz with photos by Jeff Millard

Cool custom motorcycle built by Japanese bike builder and Brat Style founder, Go Takamine.

Go customized a 2022 Indian Super Chief Limited for X-Men and Mad-Max: Fury Road star, Nicolas Hoult.

In true Go style, he took a clean, minimalist approach to the build – adding vintage elements with the bike’s modern performance.

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Serpent-Like Exhaust on Custom H-D Breakout

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A Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout with a “designer” Exhaust
from https://www.autoevolution.com by Daniel Patrascu

If you look from far away, superficially enough, and you don’t know what those twisted pipes on the side of this motorcycle are, your brain might trick into believing you’re looking at a couple of snakes doing their thing in plain daylight.

Over the years, as we combed through some of the most extreme, visually appealing, or mechanically-impressive rides on two wheels, we’ve seen plenty of hardcore representations of exhaust systems. The one we have here though is so far ahead of all the others, it deserves a title of its own.

The serpent-like piece of hardware sits on one side of a custom build called Criminal for one reason or another. The bike started out as a stock Breakout, but was heavily modified to earn its place in the select gallery of custom rides we constantly feature.

The visual effect of the exhaust system was achieved by the garage behind this build, Poland-based Nine Hills Motorcycles, through a clever play between the copper color of the pipes and welding stripes placed at almost equal intervals. The garage calls the system a piece of jewelry, and as far as design for these bits goes, they’re spot on.

Although from a color standpoint it has nothing in common with the rest of the body (in fact, it is exactly this mismatching that makes the exhaust stand out so much), it does seem to blend pretty well with the green hues deployed on most of the handcrafted body.

The shop did not limit itself at replacing the pipes, but fitted other custom bits on the thing as well in their bid to make it unique. Up front we’ve got a custom headlight, the wheels are of Performance Machine-make, and Roland Sands supplied the engine housings.

Mechanically, the brakes on the Breakout have been modified, and there’s an air suspensions system on deck to make both the thing’s stance more visually appealing, and the ride more comfortable.

As far as we can tell, the engine of the motorcycle was left pretty much unchanged, and only got a small number of new and improved hardware, including the exhaust system that brought us face to face with it, and a BDL clutch.

The Poles describe the end product of their work as a “real designer firecracker,” a one-off machine that retains the elements that make the Breakout such a go-to platform for customizers, but also brings something unique to the table.

For how much it does this, though, is anybody’s guess. In the usual European style we’ve grown accustomed to by now, Nine Hills keeps the price of the project under wraps, so we have no way of telling how much the modifications made cost the owner.

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Kirk Taylor’s 2018 Strider Custom is back

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by Marilyn Stemp

Kirk Taylor’s L’il Cha Cha was among the very first class of Tiny Strider Customs, a program of the Flying Piston Benefit that supports All Kids Bike – an organization that’s on a mission to teach every kid how to ride a bike as part of kindergarten PE class.

Custom creations are unveiled at the Flying Piston breakfast in August at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip then auctioned at the Mecum motorcycle event in Las Vegas the following January. Proceeds fund bike-riding programs for elementary schools.

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Imagine Bikernet Weekly News for April 11, 2019

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It’s All Based Around Creative Freedom and the Chopper Gods.

Imagine if the concept of life changed dramatically. With the advent of scienctific discoveries and studies, everything is changing rapidly regarding religion, philosophy and nature.

It always blows me away, the more I learn the more motorcycling, custom motorcycling and choppers become pure bastions of freedom. According to science we are born, go through the process of growing, living, loving and dying. Simple as that. We are no more than a blossoming flower in your garden. Life comes and then it goes.

Ah, but there’s so much more to our lives and what we make of them. Every day we can conjure up our next ride, our next chopper, our next girlfriend (or boyfriend), or our next adventure. Fortunately, we’re around for many seasons, so our opportunities for creative and adventuresome expansion are many fold.

So, take advantage of every fucking season you have, ‘cause when you’re gone, you’re gone. Let’s hit the news and ponder the meaning of life. Maybe it’s the pursuit of love and creative freedom and Choppers are creative steel gods we are allowed to ride off into the sunset.

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