Archive for October, 2009

CTRL Exhibition at The SOURCE, Shanghai 30th of October!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Far East! Here we come…

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Stay tuned for more on our epic journeys to all corners of the seven seas.

NO†CH 09 - SHANGHAI!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Hey yo, this is hitting from the other side of the world.That’s pretty much what we’re told in Finland when we were kids digging holes in the ground. Our Pops and Moms would always be saying that dig deep enough and you’ll come out in China. Quite funny, as we sure have been digging deep, three shifts per day, all night and all around up til dawn. And yes, finally we’re seeing light at the end of the tunnel. And what happens when we pop out?

The NO†CH Festival that’ll go down the 27th of October and goes on until 4th of November in Shanghai, China. It will cater a more than interesting palette of designers / creative heads / musicians / artists and connoisseurs. These include some of my favorites, Henrik Vibskov, Uusi Fantasia, Kokoro & Moi, Pekka Finland and these i’m just naming on the basis of what i know. The rest is something that’ll surely widen my eyes, no doubt about it.

The palette seems tight as a diamond and taking it to Shanghai must be thrilling to the bone marrows for each one participating.

And us, CTRL, are there in forms of an exhibition at a gallery space and tight store called The Source and will be having an exhibition together with Tuukka ‘Deeli’ Kaila. The exhibition will open on the 31st of November and goes through all of November. How many days is that?

Please stay tuned for more about this as we’re finalizing the last bits of it all.

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SHIFT Japan x Handsome Furs!

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Ey ‘yo! Just got this post in from my friend Victor Moreno aka El Spiderman, who’s my main man and Knotans good friend in Stockholm. El Spiderman is a busy bee with contributing to the stellar Spanish Magazine NEO2 and SHIFT Japan. International man of travel, aka El Spiderman, was here taking a deeper look into the Finnish Festival Culture at Flow Festival. Instead of getting drunk, he was all about nailing some well known talents, such as The Handsome Furs!.

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Dan is rocking the CTRL Genesis Tee. Much Love & Salute El Spiderman!

CTRL Exclusive Japan T-Shirt Re-edits.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Konichiwa!

We recently produced a limited re-edition series of t-shirts. There’s 6 different retrospect graphics from the colorful history of sweet baby Jesus, CTRL! These were only for the Japanese market, but we snatched a small piece of the pie, no offense, you know we’re like kids at the bisquit stash. These are now up and online on our WEBSTORE..

The Love Will Tear Us Apart Tee is also up there. We’ve had mad requests for this one, so it should be goodness news for all you out there that missed this pearl. Mighty approved by the talented and Handsome couple down here…

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God bless all you goths!

VBS Close Ups.

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Been awhile and same sorry ass story, been busy and blah blah. Speaking of busy, my former associates and good friends over at the VICE Headquarters in the beautiful city of Stockholm have been busy as well. They’ve just produced a series called ‘Close Ups’. In these episodes they’re getting a closer look into the interesting lives of talented people. Sounds corny, or? Well, It’s not. My man Ivar who’s doing the interviews is one of the most casual people i’ve ever met and due to his persona, he can get some truly hilarious and interesting shit out of these people.


Check em out - on VBS - NOW - Live - On Air.. i mean interweb…

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Nice shades Ivar!