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 British heavy metal/stoner rock band founded in 1995 in London. 

Orange Goblin was originally formed in 1995 under the name Our Haunted Kingdom before changing their name to Orange Goblin.

Their first five releases were issued by Rise Above Records. O'Malley left the band in 2004 to pursue a career as an artist and was not replaced.

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Recently on social media, we ran something called the “Resin Roundup”, a March Madness-inspired bracket of 8 surfboards featuring artisanal resin work by some of the world’s best glassers. SURFER’s Instagram followers voted for the board they liked most in rounds and heats until only one beautifully glassed stick was left standing: a Chemistry Surfboards model shaped by Jason Bennett, adorned with the unique resin art of a young talent named Micah Beutz.

Beutz, a 26-year-old from Oceanside, California is a perfect example of an uber-talented shaper/artist creating eye-popping rest tints. We caught up with Beutz to find out what got him into the industry in the first place, how he learned such a niche craft and what inspires him to come back to work in a factory of foam dust and fumes day after day.

Starting in the beginning, what drew you to the surfboard building business in the first place?

In high school I was looking for a job and my buddy got me one at Christenson [surfboards]. I started by packing boards for him, and then started helping with quality control and just overseeing the whole process. From there I got a job in Oceanside at a place called OSI, glassing for Takayama, Hobie, Xanadu and a couple other brands. After that I kinda jumped around to different glass shops doing a lot of different things and learning about resin tints. When Jason Bennett [from Chemistry surfboards] was looking for a ghost shaper, someone recommended me to him, and I said “hell yeah” when he called [laughs]. That was three and half years ago and I’m still here today. Shaping and doing resin art.

What side of the craft do you enjoy most: Shaping or doing the resin?

That’s tough. Probably the resin art, to be honest.

How long does it take you to do a resin job, start to finish?
I can flip a color glass job in a of couple hours. Glassers put a lot of time and effort into making a glass job the way we like to see it. We take pride in quality work, which can sometimes go unseen.

How did you learn to do that? Your work is really impressive.

Thanks! Yeah I learned from so many talented people. At the different shops I worked at I just picked up a little bit at a time watching how these guys were working with different colors. These days, everything inspires me. Everywhere I go I’m always looking at color combinations and paying attention to what looks good and how it makes me feel. I try to relate that to a customer. It’s always different: I never want to keep doing the same things so I’m always trying to learn more about the process and how I can do it differently. It keeps me hungry. I don’t know shit, compared to where I want to go. But that keeps me hungry. Everyday I wake up I’m excited to work with new colors and combos.

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Skeleton Bay only lights up a few times each year, so when it does it sends surfers around the world into a flight-booking frenzy. This year, the season started with a bang—two days of cartoonish-looking pits exploded for miles down Africa’s freakish sand point, documented it in-depth.

While it’s been relatively quiet since, there have been a couple of notable swells, most recently the one you’ll see above in Matt Bromley’s recent Vlog episode. While this swell is a little smaller, and a lingering fog bank makes it appear less appealing on film, Bromley’s session was filled with plenty of ruler-edged left tube perfection, capped off by 4-time kite surfing world champion Keahi Aboitiz towing him into a wave with a kite. As you’ll see, by whipping into the wave early, Bromley takes off deeper and with more speed than normal (Jet Skis aren’t allowed at Skeleton Bay), allowing him to perfectly backdoor the first heavy section, and get tubed twice more. Just another day at the world’s best sandbar.

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 Right before Christmas last year, we teamed up with intrepid filmmaker Ben Weiland to create a documentary highlighting Weiland's lifelong passion of chasing waves to places few would ever want to look. The 45-minute film, called “Coldwater Journal,” tells the story of a decade-long journey with fellow fringe-wave connoisseurs to some of the most inhospitable surf zones in the world. Over the next few months, we'll show you some highlights from "Coldwater Journal," starting with an arctic mission with Dane Gudauskas, Keith Malloy and Pat Millen, who went way off the beaten path in one of the most extreme climates imaginable. To read more about "Coldwater Journal," click here for an interview with Weiland. 

FULL FILM -   http://geni.us/ColdwaterJournal 

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Sharks are at the top of the food chain. The ocean predators follow their instincts. The good news is that humans are not on their diet list. However, like us, they make mistakes, too.

Swimmers and surfers are not sharks' favorite meal. They prefer sea lions, sea turtles, fish, whales, and seals.

The majority of shark attacks occur near the shore, in the surf zone and sandbars, because their natural preys live in these areas. But attacks also take place in steep underwater drop-offs, where divers often swim.

Sharks have to make quick decisions to capture food and, sometimes, the predator misinterprets humans for its natural food item.

When that happens, sharks put their teeth to work and generate 40,000-pound of pressure per square inch that crush flesh and bones in the split of a second.