Che Grand X Graffiti Beach Photo
Man I love seeing stuff like this. At work, stealing a few minutes, and diggin’ around a few of my favorite hip-hop sites and what do I see? The homie Che Grand posing with cardboard shark. Photo taken by Dan Dealy at the super fun Graffiti Beach party. I sent this over to Dealy and he immediately got hype for the next event. That’s right. A bigger, better, party coming in October.
Introducing…Ms. Atti Worku, the Founder of Seeds of Africa. I had the pleasure of meeting Atti at the Jade listening party a few months back after trying to get a shot of her standing at the bar over a packed crowd - this got her attention. Just this past Thursday I attended the Seeds “mini” get-together at the Roofdeck of the Hotel Empire, and it was a blast. The get-together was set-up as a precursor to 3rd Annual Holiday Fundraiser to take place in the next few months (stay tuned). 
For what was described as a “mini” get-together, was a packed house with a line forming outside the hotel lobby at street level. The weather was great, everyone was enjoying their drinks and Atti was greeting friends and coordinating the event from her BlackBerry - all with a smile on her face.
A little bit about Seeds…In short Seeds is about developing communities in Africa by inspiring well-being and growth with the foundation of education to the youth and young adults of the community. With this foundation, greater things will grow just as if you were to plant a SEED. Please read more about Seeds of Africa on their website, to get a more in-depth understanding of their mission and DONATE.
I’d like to personally thank Atti Worku of Seeds for keeping me & KeapHope in mind for this event, and hope that we can continue to help each other in the future. You’re doing a great job and we want to see you succeed with all of your visions.
Graffiti Beach: Who got the props?
We’ve done a lot of these photo booth setups. Truth be told the excuse to throw back a few, dance and take pictures has been the strong foundation of more then one KeapHope party, and it was the driving force behind what Graffiti Beach will be. We are having a dope custom graffiti backdrop finished Friday night to drop into the backyard of Good Company for all of our guests to get a truly excellent photo taken in front of. With both Dan Dealy and MikeOnTheRocks snappin’ away, it’s sure to be a good time.
How can you the guest make it even better? Bring a prop. Nothing makes a photo session more fun then something ridiculous to pose with. Over-sized anything, strange hats, awesome sunglasses, a cool watch. You bring a great a prop to pose with and we just might trade you for it with one of our own awesome giveaways, courtesy of Nooka and Nerf.
A little while back KeapHope took a swing through the Nooka office to check out the latest offering from one of our favorite accessory lines. Founder Matthew Waldman has done some killer work with watches, wallets and belts (the best out there) and has hit a home run with these future specs. Seen on celebs from Miley Cyrus (yup) to Yeezy’s ex-squeeze, the glasses feature a soft to the touch frame and double-take mirror lenses.
You can hit up the re-worked and beautiful Nooka.com to buy yourself a pair now, or make sure to swing through our Graffiti Beach party on Saturday for your chance to win one of the pairs we’ll be giving away. To win, just make sure you stop by the outdoor photo installation and catch up with one of our photographers. We’ll be giving away a handful throughout the day.
RSVP by droppin’ a line or on Facebook. More pics below the jump
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Coming to you next Saturday, August 14th, KeapHope brings the beach to the streets with the latest installment of our daylight parties. We’ve done a handful of these daylight events and we’re revving it up a bit bringing the festivities to a Williamsburg spot with one of the best outdoor locations for taking in the sun, Good Company.
Come kick it with us in the backyard where we will be running a KeapHope curated photo set, complete with custom Graffiti backdrop and select giveaways from Nooka and Nerf.
We’ll have two open bars from Asahi (2-3pm) and Reyka Vodka (5 till gone) and in the early evening, free BBQ with every drink purchase (6-8).
Come party with us and spread the word!
- KeapHope Collective
Graffiti Beach
2-8 PM
Good Co. Bk 10 Hope St. (between Roebling & Havemeyer Sts)
RSVP to whiz@keaphope.com or on Facebook.
Monday night KeapHope ran through the Manhattan Center to check out the the latest from the ever growing watch company G-Shock. Up top you can catch a quick peak at the event as shot by karmaloop.com that features a few industry heads talking about the new line expansion and their direct involvement within G-Shock. This video was originally posted on Hypebeast, running with the lone comment: “Show the Watches, not the egos.” Ouch. Well, without going into to details on the watches themselves (sorry commenter) I did want to touch on the event itself. Overall, G-shock kills it with their parties. The last event at the Bowery for Dee & Ricky was a smash, featuring an impromptu performance from the homie Donnis and great music and food. This stop at the Manhattan Center was more of the same greatness with food and drink, and a little turn to the left with the performer of the night, Kesha. Long before Kesha was set to take the stage G-Shock did the press friendly walk through and had the celebs like Lamar Odom and his mistake of a squeeze as well as the afternoon drive queen turned morning TV host Wendy Williams (How you doing?). A fun time for all, that was more party in a venue then show in a venue, but that was easy to ignore with great music from DJ Cassidy, a number of friends in the building and again, awesome drinks from Absolut, naming all the specialty cocktails after G-Shock related brands.
Hit the jump for a video clip of Kesha’s performance and an extended recap
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To celebrate the one year anniversary of Thrillist’s impending takeover the Hamptons the crew that can’t comprehend a party without a top-shelf open bar, followed up last years bash with a one year anniversary party sure to clear those stuck-in-Manhattan-blues so many of us get halfway through summer. Filling up a party bus with a handful of media, friends and family, Thrillist bused out the crew to unite with the beautiful people at a private section of the Day & Night party at East Hampton Point.
KeapHope was up bright and early, and despite the pounding headaches and groggy-ness of Friday night, our resident photographer Dan Dealy made it to the bus in time to bring his own unique flavor to event. If there is one thing we love at KeapHope, its a day party, and we were sure to make this one special. Hit the jump below to check out some of our favorite flicks and forgotten memories from the event and visit Facebook for our full gallery and to tag yourself in the pictures.
When it comes to the big summer concert festivals, everyone may be keeping an eye on the stage, but sometimes its as much about checking out the crowd as it is your favorite artists throwing it down.
Between sets and while walking the grounds we kept the camera flashing to capture some of the fresh looks that made up the nearly 10,000 in attendance at Hard Fest 2010. Click below the jump to see a selection of our favorites and head on over to Facebook to see the FULL GALLERY. Spot yourself in any of the photos? Be sure to ‘like’ KeapHope on FB and go in and tag your pictures. Let your friends see how awesome you look in that mean getup.
To see photos from the stage with MIA, Theophlius London, Ninjasonik and more click here
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This Saturday Jamie and Dan made the trek out to Governor’s Island to catch one of the only festival style concerts happening in the New York area this summer: Hard Fest 2010. A show with a lot of heat, local standouts, some fresh kits and a disappointing headliner in MIA still made for one fun day. Our mini-review and gallery is up over at Time Out New York but we have a couple galleries hitting you here at KH as well. Below the jump, check some of Dan Dealy’s favorites from the show and stay tuned for a gallery of some of the beautifully weird people that made up the crowd at Hard Fest to hit the site within the hour.
It was a bit hellish to get out to the show with some strange ferry arrangement, mile+ walks around the perimeter of the island and hassling security doing shoe searches but we had a great time. The show was made for us early on catching some KeapHope favorites in Ninjasonik followed by Theophlius London, Sleigh Bells and the group we were most excited to see, Die Antwoord. A bunch of KeapHopers made the journey to see them last night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and shared the same impression we did of the groups super polished version of “we don’t give a fuck.” The may be a bit hard to understand in their seriousness but they certainly bring a level of interest to music, especially in the digital space, that we haven’t really seen yet. It was sad to see such a strong set followed by a unenthused MIA who seemed to drive a good portion of the crowd out the door early. After a solid 6+ hours on the fair grounds we left only 20 minutes into her set, but were far from the only ones, joining a solid number of attendees who opted for an early boat back to Manhattan.
Enjoy the stage selects below and stay tuned for some crowd shots coming at you today.
Sometimes despite a 6am call time and a 20hr day there is a part of me that can’t say no to good time. For real.. I have a problem. It’s like every night there’s gonna be a better crew getting down or a sicker party poppin’ off. In the this night’s case I stopped off a little shy of home. A justified wrong turn to take me to funville (Go There).
WHIZHOUSE UPDATED: That’s our photographer, the one and only Dan Dealy. His view on life is one we can all strive to live by. “It’s important to remember to have fun today…” no truer lines have been spoken since… Just Be Dope.
Big thanks to @ashert for inviting the KeapHope crew through to the party. Great to hang with all the Thrillist dudes and our new friends Sabrina and AM. We’ve done a lot of these “party photo sets” and this one ranks up there in my favorites. The smiles, the setting, the props…it all ads up to a selection of memories that remind us why we work so hard, for the those occasional wrong turns, to funville.
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