More New Years Eve Photos are up on Facebook. Shout out to JP for sharing them. Some weird ones in here. Still haven’t developed all that film yet. Thank God its a New Year. 

Strada Ride

This past Saturday, the temps in NYC hit above 50 (in January!) and it was the perfect day to hit the streets. KeapHope linked up with the Strada crew to capture additional footage for our upcoming video with the custom bike company and I snagged a few stills along the way. We got some great coverage, can’t wait to get this project out. 

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Culturfied: Museum of the Moving Image and the Jim Henson’s Fantastic World exhibit  

Many of us make it a goal to better ourselves as part of a NYE resolution and I, like many others, often find myself looking to make the most of the clean slate that is a new year. A personal goal this time: to enjoy a bit more of what the city has to offer and get a bit cultured. Once a week, I vow to take in some sort of culture, art, performance, show, maybe even just a movie. This week, a trip to Queens to visit the Museum of the Moving Image and to catch the Jim Henson exhibit before it closes down in March. 

Above I have a few iPhone photos (note to self: next time bring the cam) with some highlight from the day. If you get a chance to make it out here, go on Sunday and be sure to hit The Astor Room for brunch beforehand; super cheap with a complimentary bloody and live jazz music.

As for the Museum itself, absolutely stunning. From info gathered from Foursquare tips, the spot was recently renovated in 2010 and it shows. Although the weekend will find you competing with families and children the Museum offers free admission on Friday afternoon and every ticket provides access to catch any screening available that day. We took in a 22 min episode of classic Black and White Dick Tracy complete with cheesy villains and episode cliff hanger. 

With a ton of hands on stations like ADR, sound editing, film editing, stop motion and more, you can certainly learn a lot and stay busy making this a solid alternative to the big name museums and a valid excuse to get out to Queens for a day.

Oh, and the Jim Henson exhibit. See it.

-Jamie

A couple nice @Instagram find from NYE

Super NYE visuals

Part of dressing up the space for NYE this year was keeping it really simple. We wanted everyone to have fun and set an atmosphere, but didn’t want to kill ourselves in the process (its important we had fun too). 

In keeping this in mind, I spent a couple hours the week before NYE taking a hundred or so clips that I and Adam pulled from youtube and chopping it up into an appropriated comic timeline. The images were chopped to a few tracks off of the Mick Boogie and Stylecaster, Sounds from the Front Row, Vol 4, to help give it a little pacing. This was fun. It runs a bit long at 7 minutes for a web view, but was a nice thing to help light the room without using house dimmers and to highlight some of the strange-ness that can be found on the web. It’s an interesting style to work with such a pool of video like this and one I hope I can tap into again.

-Jamie

KeapHope in Miami with Strada

KeapHope putting in work at Strada. Gotta finish that vid!

A Super New Years Eve

We captured a ton of photos at the New Years party this year with CULTUREfix. Above are a few favorites from my personal gallery (view more here on Facebook). Later in the week we’ll have at least one other gallery to upload along with some other media from the event and floating around somewhere are about 8 disposable cameras that need processing. 

Thanks to everyone who came out and made the night a success and a big thanks to 6th Sense for DJing (his playlist is here) and rocking out for four hours. Also to CULTUREfix for having us back for the second year and row. Here’s to 2012.  

-Jamie

whizhouse:

6thsenseyo:

NEW YEAR’S EVE @ CULTURE FIX

KEAPHOPE “JUST BE DOPE” PARTY

10:29:48 PM EST

David Bowie - Let’s Dance

Teena Marie - Behind the Groove [12” Version]

Sister Sledge - He’s The Greatest Dancer (Album Version)

Chic - I Want Your Love (Todd Terje Edit)

Zapp - Doo Wa Ditty (Blow That Thing)

…

This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this 6th. We had a blast. 

for dayz

Hello?

NEW YEARS EVE ANNOUNCEMENT

We’re excited to announce we have 6th Sense spinning for New Years Eve. Still Open Bar all night, still a champagne toast at midnight and we’re throwing in a free KeapHope t-shirt for anyone who pre-books a ticket online. $50. Tickets available here

Happy Holidays everyone

If you’re looking for a cheap and fun alternative for NYE, we’ve got you covered. $50 open bar all night as KH returns to CultureFix. 

Grab you tickets at the link on the Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/183736515056162/

More Holiday Photos

Though not quite the quality of Dan Dealy’s gallery, some more fun photos from last week’s Holiday Bash, right here on Facebook. Photos by @whizhouse. Thanks again to everyone that came out!

Last night we celebrated with our friends and Family for our annual Holiday Party. Excellent time had by all. Special thanks to Jon Divello and his band mates for playing a great set and thank you to everyone who came out and got tuned up on a Monday. I was defiantely over served. I thanked Sailor Jerry this morning for the awesome time and the hangover.

Peep the full gallery on our Facebook page.

KeapHope 2011 Holiday t-shirt still available here

Another great deal from the guys at Strada Customs for the Holiday season. If you still need a solid gift for someone this is a great option. 

Check out the bike in action in part of our Art Basel Miami recap video. 

Brooklyn does Art Basel Miami

Sun. Sand. Babes. Art. Bands. Ninjasonik. Yelawolf. Jasmin Solano. Pharrell. dFm. Just Be Dope. Antwan Duncan. Mr. Brainwash. James Murphy. Strada Bikes. Basel Castle. The OverThrow. Sailor Jerry. Wynwood. Art Basel. Miami Art Week. Old friends. New friends.

Let the video do the talkin’ as KeapHope takes Miami.

KeapHoper’s Dan Dealy and Gustavo Roman make the Stylecaster slideshow fot Art Basel, shout out to Antwan Duncan. 

The KeapHope video recap coming soon. 

Spotted at 2dopeboyz…photo by KeapHope’s Dan Dealy

Sense of Flying