Two in a row! That's what our boy, Evan "Golden" Geiselman just pulled off this week at Sebastian Inlet. It started last weekend at the Hurley Surfing America Prime, and it finished today at the Ron Jon Sebastian Inlet Pro Junior. He took out Keanu Asing, Gabe Garcia and Chase Wilson in the final, and is now in the lead of the North America Pro Junior ratings. This was a big event. A Grade 3 Pro Junior means major points toward the ultimate goal of qualifying for the overall Pro Junior World Championships. Judging from Evan's form today, I'd say he's well on his way.

EG makes it a double at the Ron Jon Sebastian Inlet Pro Junior.

Our other teamriders also represented well. Conner Coffin went hard and made it to the semis. And Michael Dunphy did his thing and finished equal ninth.

But today — and this week — was ultimately all about Evan. In some difficult surf, he managed to fit in turns and airs where others couldn't.

EG: too much to handle. PHOTO: MEZ/EASTERNSURF.COM

Congrats to Evan, Conner and Michael. Next stop on the Pro Junior tour: Huntington Beach, March 24. —Asher

For more coverage on the Ron Jon Sebastian Inlet Pro Junior, be sure to go the one-stop-shop for all East Coast surf news, www.easternsurf.com.

Andre Genovesi on the Fun Table. Video: Bruno Passos

Husband-and-wife art duo are the John and Yoko of Portland’s art scene

“Portland is full of vibrant energy, ecologically conscious folks, affordable living, healthy environment, good food, inspiring music and art, mosses and mushrooms…”

Listening to the husband-and-wife art duo Apak rave about their home base in the woods of Oregon, it would be easy to believe that they’re actually describing the fantastical dreamscapes of their warm, personable works. It’s a world of vibrant, muted color and a congruent sense of wonder unity between man, animal and environment, courtesy of the “Rainbow Children” that populate the pair’s wide range of products. While gouache/acrylic paintings on wood are their primary medium, the produce everything from t-shirts to postcards to “Kokeshi,” traditional Japanese wooden dolls.

Tinlark.

“The Rainbow Children represent pure vibrating light and harmonious flowing life energy,” they explain. “We believe everyone has a rainbow child inside.”

Apak grew out of the love relationship of Aaron and Piland and Ayumi Kajikawa, who met in art school.

“We were invited to be in a show together and thought it would be fun to collaborate on the same pieces together, and we got a good response from the Portland art community.” Pilans recalls. “Since then, we’ve shown work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Edinburgh, Melbourne, and Paris to name a few. For us, love and art are intertwined. Art is our tool for expressing our love for each other and the universe. We’re fortunate to be able to focus on our art surrounded by this beauty, and not worry so much about making money.”

Lucky Tigers.

Apak happily characterize their own harmonious working relationship “as pretty defined, but it varies, too. Usually Aaron sets up the mood and environment with his fantastic and other worldly influenced plants and structures. Then I join in and let my characters play and explore the environments,” laughs Ayumi. “Those are the basic APAK roles. Lately, we are enjoying not talking about the pieces and waiting to see what mysteries get revealed to us.”

“It’s like we’re playing a game where one of us starts a sentence and the other finishes it, except we’re not using words,” elaborates Aaron. “It’s a visual conversation, and the result is a painting. Sometimes we can anticipate what the other will say, but then other times we’ll be completely surprised. Those tend to be our favorites pieces.” –by Scott Sterling / Hurley Art

For more on Apak, go here.

Lotus Eaters.

Check Oliver Kurtz's vid on innersection.tv

"Vote for Ollie" is our new slogan for a while. Because Hurley's Oliver Kurtz is locked deep in a battle for a slot in Taylor Steele's next video. It's called Innersection, and it's the first time Taylor's sent out an invitation to the entire world to be in his next video. The only catch: you have to be voted in, and it'll be happening during four separate "quarters" during the year. Five guys per quarter, 20 surfers total.

Oliver's one of 16 surfers to submit a video for the first quarter, and his effort is solid. Granted, the majority is filmed in Florida slop, but Kurtz still gets the job done.

Check the video here.

And remember: vote for Ollie.

Rachael Tilly introduces herself.

Hello People!

I don't know if anybody is reading this but this is my first blog! My name is Rachael Tilly and I am 11 years old. I am sponsored by Dewey Weber, Hurley, and Smart Girls Who Surf. So now that we have introductions over with I can tell you about yesterday's after-school session. It was super windy and i went down to one of my local spots, T-Street. No one was out because it was super blown out. So i went out and I got a quick, fun session. The wind made it a little frustrating but i adapted to the conditions and got some pretty good waves. The lefts were longer than the rights but i did get a fun right. I paddled really hard for it and i caught it and ended up getting two nosrides on it. One of my lefts I got this air drop that was really cool. Also, when I was getting out of the water this wave snuck up behind me and knocked me right off my feet! haha. So overall it was a fun session! Thanks for reading my first blog. I'm really excited!

Rachael