Yo, check this. CTRL Fall 09 just sailed in to our office. Our boy Sam The Sailor Man popped a couple of brews, drank them shot gun style and put his sleeves to work. 20 mins later we’re surrounded by 140 boxes of gear. Luckily we’re moving in to a new office with top secret location kinda free mason type of thing…
Big Up To our boy T-Boner for the portrait!
Hail to the notorious BEER BULLETTO!! & Team Lepi!
Kostaja aka the Scare Crow is out having two nice rides at the same time while my ass is nailed on the office chair. Luckily it has some wheels as well.. Anyways, go check Mikkos skating from summer 2008. They’re coming out with the material for Summer 09 with their notorious PUPLE Crew during the dark days of winter.. stay tuned for these charming young fellers…
MIKKO - SLP from SLP on Vimeo.
Radness the Madness aka fuck this office chair and i’m out..
Mad props to Kooley High. Just saw their new Kooley is High video that’s produced by Dela. Yo son, look in there. CTRL getting mad love in forms of headz nodding to the beat crowned with the CTRL CB4 New Era Cap.
Yo! Go change the world for a change, will you now! Big Up Koolie High. Miles high, aces down!
After a long time of swapping ideas with the truly energetic fellow, Mr. Bennie Komala from Amsterdams finest skateshop, BEN G, we finally have our little project slowly seeing some daylight. This is only a sneak preview for the full kit that’ll be dropping out soonish sooner soon soon son. We’re paying homage to a true professional.. Secret gathering, secret project, secrets.. nah, ain’t no secret in it. mah just playin around…
Recently we had a visit from our friend Victor, a nice chap from Madrid that moved to Stockholm in quest for the pale and aristocratic blondes that the city is known for. So, theses Swedes never seem to come over to Finland, except for Knotan who is a true Helsinki pioneer. Well, Victor is a friend of Knotan and he came over with the classical Booze Cruise to the much anticipated Flow Festival. Victor writes stories to a couple of very nice magazines, one is the Spanish NEO 2 and the other is a Japanese Mag called SHIFT. Our journalist friend was on a quest to nail some footage of the Handsome Furs, a super good band that you definitely should check out that goes by the name of Joensuu 1685, oh, and the ever shining bourgeois boys from CTRL.
Here’s some footage from Victors camera that ended up on the NEO 2 blog.
The Furs gig in full action….
Smoking Hot Backstage with the leads of Joensuu & The Furs… Big up Dan & Alex for rocking our gear. The Genesis Tee is in full effect. Always pleasing our eyes and minds.
Grace Jones had 44 bottles of Crystal Champagne in her private backroom… Question is, was she drunk at all?
The full article can be found on the NEO 2 page…
There’s soon more to come from our amigo Victor. Anxiously waiting for the SHIFT article…
Gracias!
I see a resemblance here…
These handsome people are everywhere.
Evolution is inevitable aka the CTRL Fall 09 line has landed in JPN, companions light up the travel through time aka love goes out to our homies at STADIUM Tokyo.
Big Up, Big Up STADIUM! Be on the look out for a polished diamond together with these cats.
There’s been a lot of stuff happening here lately and a lot of people passing by our office. Or actually slept over at our office. I wish we could have a CTRL bed & breakfast thing going on, but i’m afraid that it’s more of a ‘couch, no shower and yeah, i have client coming in at 10 in the morning so would be nice if you could take a hike before we get in’ type of thing. Perhaps we’ll get into the hotel business soon enough.. Would be great.
Anyways, one of the most colorful (our man t-boner took the pics in black and white so it wouldn’t be too overwhelming for sore eyes) persons we’ve lately had over is our buddy Chris.
This true adventurer in life…
had been tripping around in Europe for a good 9 months with only this stuff with him…
Luckily we had some clean t-shirts to hook him up with…
Chris has been busy filming for some upcoming videos, mostly in Berlin where he flew back to from Helsinki, after a good and relaxed week or so. Oh, ALMOST forgot to mention. This bohemian didn’t stay the whole trip in Europe. He actually flew back for a beat down at the Berrics by Satans Little Helper.
Anyways, Chris, buddy, was good having you over and next time over at your mansion or some other corner in the world. Hopefully soon..
Mazel Tow aka best of luck for you, Mr. traveller.
Get that Face in CONTROL. We had a visit from our old friends, the Handsome Furs during the weekend. They were playing a gig at Flow Festival and it fucking rocked! Best H.F gig ever! Snap, out of the blue i was feeling well hypnotized and saw all of a sudden three times Nasty a.k.a the charming dude with the black arm.
By the way, we did the tee without him knowing about it. We thought he’d get mad pissed of at first. But no. Mr NAsty is a man of mystery and he enjoys the appeal given by this little funny move from us.
Be on the watch for future collaborations with the best Canadians we know. Thanks Dan & Alex for all things good and the big warm hearts you two carry!
SWEET AS BUTT-ERRR!
It was a rainy morning, woke up and headed for a shower. All was good until i noted that the water is flooding over the plumbs, on to the bathroom floor, through the door and all over my shoes in my hall. Took out like 20 t-shirts and all my newly cleaned bedroom sheets and hoped that they’d suck the water up. After half an hour of running around naked trying to dry up the water and finally getting it done i felt stressed. What a morning..
But then it got better. Mr Postman came by and dropped a couple of nice packages from our man Juri Loginov from Familia Skateshop. He sent us sweet t-shirts and a couple of amazing posters done by Todd Bartrud.
Signed, sealed and delivered ! ! !
Blessup Juri and the Familia Crew!
