Just got a sweet box from my man Bmo from The Hundreds. What’s sweeter than a old school swap. ”Yo, i lemme trade mine this for your that”. Dude, i’m loving the sox, the Bunyan Jacket and all the other goods. Big up Bmo, Big up The Hundreds and mazel tow for the year 2010! Something new will be born… Maybe this?… Or this?… Or maybe the fixed gear hype will take a new turn… . Who knows what the new year has to give and take…
World peace a.k.a let’s make the impossible happen in 2010.
Buenas Dias Hombres!
We just got a nice little feature of our Spring 10 line in Nylon Magazine, the Mexican edition of it to be exact. Feels nicely exotic as it’s mf*n freezing in Helsinki today. Wouldn’t mind being down there with a San Miquel in my hand, rocking my sombrero and cruising around the desert with my donkey…
Big up Nylon Mag! Love your content.
Gav sent me some pictures of him objectively capturing Helsinki in it’s darkest month. Some (high) lights here and there… The blurriness treats the pictures well. Finland appears a bit fuzzy due to it’s lack of light.
Good nights spent at the Glo Hotel in Helsinki. Nice design hotel that actually had someone doing the unfortunate Pulp Fiction move during Gavins stay. Don’t mix up your heroin and think it’s coke. O.D granted…
Streets of HKI!
Have to love the trams. Been riding them for free forever. Inside hint is to watch out for the Smurfs. They are the old ladies clad in blue who will bust you for riding without a ticket. It’s a 80 euro fee, so keep an eye out for them.. Even though i’m nowadays happy with occasionally paying for the ride as it is a great service…
Some images from Gavins display of works… Raving 89… Since 89!
More of the same….
The artist himself.. But who took the pic? Good work…
There’s an exhibition at the same venue that goes by the name of Young Artists… . They had some cool stuff in there. Polar bears are always cool i guess.
Suvi, the girl on the right is the one running the museum and she’s doing a heck of a job! Oskari on the left side knows a lot about a lot that you don’t know anything about…
Off to the after party.. Met a random dude… Is he the one who stole my signed Raving 89 book?
Yours truly. Courtesy of Gavin Watson…
Drinks are hard to get once the last 15 minutes hits in at the bar… While your trying to eye the bar tender down you’ll have someone keeping you busy with a dizzy conversation…
Thanks Gavin for the pictures and hope to see you in a warmer Helsinki soon.
This should have come up last week. But you know, weeks just seem to disappear.. Hours are seconds, days are fast passing moments and so forth. Anyways, our main man http://gavinwatsonsphotography.blogspot.com/ paid a visit in Helsinki for his Raving 89 exhibition opening at Kunst Halle. Good show and stellar chap that Gavin dude. He’s always sending me new and old footage that he’s been taking along his journeys.
Here’s an old pic of his brother Neville, who has appeared throughout the history of Gavins works. Rocking that RockaBilly steez with flare!
Neat bike and neat shades! Nev always appears with style!
Wow!! This is good stuff! The stellar magazine Surface, more exactly, the Chinese edition of Surface just chose the Finnish-Chinese Design Networking event Snowball as the best design event in China of the year 2009!
As you might have read before, CTRL was a part of it with the exhibition over at the stellar SOURCE store.
Big up to everyone who made this happen. Especially Design Forum Finland, Neebing, the multi cunning all over guy who made things click and The SOURCE who let us have our exhibition at their premises. Good way to wrap up the week…
XIU XIU!
Bon Jour!
My man Benny from Be-Street Magazine sent me this epic piece of illustration. It appears in the newest issue of Be-Street, Issue # 7. They have reworked on some really famous biblical illustrations from one of the most famous illustrations of Gustave Doré. Basically they remixed Gustavos biblical illustration themes with some fresh clothing pieces.. Credit goes out to the french illustrator PlaymoO who’s the talent behind the illustrations.
On this first page, they had a push on the angel with a CTRL x STADIUM jacket !
Cover flows swell with MISHKA keeping watch!
Illustration is pretty sick…
They also did a VIDEO that’s definitely worth checking!
Thanks Benjamin for the look outs! Really appreciate it!
Paz!
Nihau! As a follow up on our trip to Shanghai we just got some press coverage from China. It’s a mag called 1626 and CTRL is featured amongst the most know traditional greats, such as Eero Aarnio, Alvar Aalto, Marimekko and also the upcoming connoisseurs such as Daniel Palillo and Agent Pekka. Just to name a few that is…
Big Up to Neebing who sent us the material & Big up to Design Forum!!
XIU XIU!!!
My man OKI, the Nike SB rep over in cold Helsinki just sent me this sweet and interesting piece of information. SB Aight!
Nike Skateboarding teams up with Fluff Magazine to document the SB riders from Europe
18 Months in the making, Nike Skateboarding is proud to announce the release of a 600 page book featuring almost every SB rider in Europe.
Fluff Magazine from Holland, known for their untraditional approach towards magazine making, was given all creative freedom to come up with their interpretation of the SB country teams in Europe. Photographer Marcel Veldman visited 19 European countries to capture the riders both on and off their boards. The result is 600 pages of amazing content featuring over 100 riders.
To celebrate the release of the Fluff SB book a temporary store and exhibition space will open in the heart of Barcelona. The space is managed by the Trust Nobody store and will be open daily from December 12 until January 11. December 12 will also see the release of a limited edition Nike Zoom Bruin SB designed by Fluff magazine.
The store and exhibition space are located on:
Plaça Comercial 9
08003 Barcelona
Opening hours: 12.00-21.00hrs
Make sure to check HYPERLINK “http://www.fluff-sb.com“ www.fluff-sb.com for a downloadable teaser (full website live December 12).
For more information, please contact:
MR. Oki Kalaoja
www.fluff-sb.com
www.nikeskateboarding.com
www.trustnobody.es
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR A TALENTED SIMO MÄKELÄ AND HIS FLUFFY HAIR!!! And yeah, stay tuned for an event over in cold and rainy Helsinki. Should go down sometime in January!
SB, SB, SB Aiiiiight!!!
Love the the looks of the book cover… Like recycled, like like…
Good looks on the shoe!
Tanel, our homie in Tallinn sent over some sweet B.F flicks from a closing party that he threw at the old REEDE in beautiful Tallinn. If you don’t know about REEDE and you’re headig over to the old Hansa Town in Tallinn, it’s definitely worth checking out. Tanel is keeping it clean as always with a top notch selections from brands like Wood Wood, Henrik Vibskov, CTRL, Stüssy, Krew, Adidas, Vans, Krink, Arkitip, good selection of skateboards and hardware + all the other small details that enlighten your existence as an individual. This is a bit of old news, but hey, better late than never. REEDE has moved to a bigger location at the new concept mall downtown called the SOLARIS!
Some flicks taken with an old Olympus Mju and Tanels sharp eye…
They had a band from Latvia playing there… Everyone was loving the violinist, even the chicks. She’s on the left…
I was digging the drinks….
A bit too much perhaps… My brain was like an old LP that was stuck on one track saying Gin Tonic, Gin Tonic, skreek, Gin Tonic, Gin Tonic, skreek…
Freeman was digging the free ride…
Go check out the new REEDE or we’ll kill you! Hah, not really.. It’s Xmas soon for Christs sake. We have to be nice and behave now…
