stay busy:

OPERATION: BEER PHOTOGRAPHY:
Really getting to push my photography skills in my new roll as photographer and designer for Knotted Root Brewing in Nederland. Having fun with this weekly can release shoot. Playing with depth of field, lighting, etc.

JANUARY, 2024: Here’s some design and promo we did for a little hometown snowboard contest that came out of nowhere. Local friends and colleagues threw this thing together in one month. Such a fun event and great little small mountain town vibe. Good people. Good beer. Good times. Rad skiers and snowboarders. Watch out 2025!

This track David and I put together remotely during the pandemic – borne of the “Audio Speed Dating File Trading” sessions. David Moeggenberg, Guitar. Eric Keeney, Bass.
© 2020 Montane Zone Music

New music from my band up here in Nederland called Whumpf. Connect on Bandcamp and Facebook. https://whumpf.bandcamp.com/track/whumpf-bomba-set-two-part-a

Today I am filled with gratitude as I’m steadily working on multiple projects for my three main clients that keep the lights on and the animals of the rancho fed. Eldora Mountain Resort, Knotted Root Brewery and Stashlogix. Getting to flex creative muscle in all the disciplines for these guys – a perfect combination of graphic design, photography, video production and motion graphics. A big thank you to you all! Keep it coming!

One of my hobbies is making this little YouTube show called 3 Albums where I interview record store owners and musicians about their favorite albums. New episode just dropped featuring Jason Gorbett, owner of Songbyrd Records up in Fort Collins, Colorado. Fun shoot and show!

Live recordings from our performance at Knotted Root Brewery in Nederland, Colorado on Sept. 15th of 2023.

Remember when those Bernie memes were the thing? Time flies. Here’s a throwback to when I made a few of my own Bernie memes, this one with the delightful Frank Zappa album cover “We’re Only in it for the Money”. Nerd fact: Jimi Hendrix was actually at this photo shoot, despite possibly being a cut-n-paste like so many of the faces.

Originally released in 1968, the intended front cover of the album was a notorious parody of The Beatles Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band. At the insistence of the record company, the image had to become part of the gatefold sleeve instead of the cover, much to Zappa’s unhappiness. More recent releases of the album have seen the originally-intended artwork displayed as the cover – though not with Bernie. 🙂

Band geek design geek letting it fly here. Getting into shapes and patterns mixed with bright contrasting colors. These are always fun because I’m the art director AND the client. 🙂 This one for a hometown gig coming up at Knotted Root in Nederland, next Friday the 15th of September.

Fun new design project I’m working on for our hometown of Nederland. Printed 11 x 17.

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LIVE MUSIC:

As part of my creative output, I play the bass guitar on occasion. Been a minute since I’ve played live in front of the people, so this is pretty exciting! Whumpf is an instrumental trio from Nederland, Colorado that plays largely improvisational post-rock, jazz, funk and experimental noise. We’ve been getting together for jam sessions in Studio Montane Zone for most of 2023 – these are some of our first shows in front of listeners.

Upcoming WHUMPF shows in Colorado:

Fri, Aug. 11th, 2023
Knotted Root Brewing
https://www.knottedrootbrewing.com/
in Nederland, Colorado
6pm-8:30pm

Fri, Sept. 15th, 2023
Knotted Root Brewing
https://www.knottedrootbrewing.com/
in Nederland, Colorado
6pm-8:30pm

Sun, Sept. 17th, 2023
Woods Boss Brewing
https://www.woodsbossbrewing.com/
in Denver, Colorado
3pm-6:00pm

http://facebook.com/whumpf
http://whumpf.bandcamp.com

APRIL 2023: Studio Montane Zone is located on an elk migration path near the Indian Peaks Wilderness. These guys are part of what the Fish & Wildlife Department have named “The Caribou Herd”. We get to see lots of them each Spring and Fall. © 2023 photo by Eric Keeney

MARCH 2023: Promo for this year’s Trick Ditch Banked Slalom Race at Eldora. Love being a part of these events. Thanks Eldora! Get out there you guys! Race is the weekend after Spring Break in Colorado – on Saturday, April 1st. (photo by Cullen McHale)

FEB. 2023 – Paid a visit to my old stomping grounds up at Mt. Baker in Washington state. Also raced for the first time in the Legendary Banked Slalom. What a blast! Forgot how much I missed this place and these people. Here’s a few snapshots. Pictured here are legendary pros and former U.S. Olympians Rob Kingwill, and Seth Westcott.
(photos by Eric Keeney)

JAN. 2023 – Here we go… the first episode in the “3 Albums” series – part of the larger “Good Things Come in Threes” project across multiple YouTube channels. Stay tuned for lots more of these – including album reviews, live music recordings, interviews, miniDV archives series… super-stoked on all things bubbling in Studio Montane Zone currently!

JAN. 2023 – Content creation since the day. Now – we’re launching several new YouTube channels, including a revived Beer City TV! If you’re a beer nerd, go visit our YouTube channel and subscribe at: @beercitytv

Stay tuned. Cheers!

DEC. 2022 – This is how we keep our sanity in this crazy life of work, family, animals, rancho, etc… mountain biking, snowboarding and backpacking. I have a modest goal of hitting 100k feet of vertical on the mountain bike each season, so I push through rides in November and December, even though the snow starts piling up. Thought it would be fun to share one.

Playing around with some “bad television reception” ideas on our logo. Yeah, we’re old enough to remember rabbit ears on the TV, trying to get that clear picture to watch Monty Python late at night on the weekends. 🙂 This is pretty much what it looked like when it wasn’t dialed in.

Dig this little design I did for the town (our hometown) – Nederland, Colorado. You can buy this design on t-shirts being sold at the Visitor’s Center in Ned right now – alongside some Frozen Dead Guy merch. I love our little Nederland!

We’ve also been busy working with Stashlogix in Boulder, Colorado. They design and engineer secure storage devices for the cannabis industry. Fun projects, another new industry for us! Here’s a little animated GIF we did for Stashlogix.

This was one of many on-mountain design projects for Eldora Mountain Resort up here in Nederland. We’ve been working with them for over four seasons now. First as their video producer, and currently as the on-mountain designer. Here’s a poster design in two sizes and social in two sizes – plus a 16 x 9 motion piece for the lodges. Stoked to race again this year too!

SUMMER OF 2021 HAS BEEN ZANY.

There – I said it. Multiple big projects on The Rancho – from construction, to fire mitigation to home improvements. Meanwhile, the wheels are turning several creative projects in The Mountain Shed – with design projects and a couple of television shoots. Also – the short summers at 8,400 feet have us cramming in the outdoor adventures where we can. This year: kayaking Twin Lakes and our local Gross Reservoir, checking off a couple new backpacking destinations in the Indian Peaks and the daily outings of hiking, biking, doggos, horseys and kiddos – backdoor adventuring.

The Creative:
(Here’s a sneak peak of some current design stuff and a couple adventuring snaps):

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Took a long weekend and popped out to Moab in April. It’s my favorite time of year to visit Utah. Weather was perfect. Knocked out a big day hike to the Druid Arch in the Needles District, then two days of mountain biking around the Moab area. Will drop more photos later. Here’s “Went to the Desert to Get My Head Togetha – Camp Two”. photo by Eric Keeney © 2021.

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THANK YOU ELDORA FOR AN AMAZING 2020/21 SEASON!

One of our biggest clients is Eldora Mountain Resort here in Nederland, Colorado. Here’s a little peek into a current project: Creating a detailed base area map to be used both externally and internally. Drawn digitally from scratch with the exception of the trees which originated as Sharpie sketches in my Field Notes. The icons are simplified representations for retail and lifts. Such a fun project!

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VIDEO & PHOTOGRAPHY FROM LAST YEAR:

Here’s some photography from a video and photo shoot for a CBD client called Leafwell Botanicals, previously out in Steamboat, CO. Winter 2019-20 – just before Covid hit.

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ELDORA!
Winter, 2019-2020. This winter Eric has been busy producing the graphics and video content for Eldora Mountain Resort. Here’s a recent sample of a little show we do called This Week at Eldora.

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SEPTEMBER 2019 – TWIN LAKES, CO:
September in Colorado! Amazing trip to Twin Lakes for camping, trail running and a little photography. I love Colorado. Dipping back into my Flickr site to drop some new photos. http://flickr.com/keeney

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JULY 2019 – DENVER:
One of our biggest summer projects has had Eric working as an official employee for the City and County of Denver’s Media Department. With 40-some agencies within that government it means the content is super-diverse. As are his roles (shooting, editing, motion or producing). Even shooting a bit for Denver’s Channel 8 which was super fun! Thanks to the whole team at the Media Department. #coloradovideo #bouldervideoproduction #bouldervideodesign

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THE PLUS +

MAY 2019:
Eric wrapped up work for Eldora Mountain Resort for the 2018-2019 season. Visit Eldora.com to see tons of our videos from last season!

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Ongoing music and audio experimentation and fun! Music samples here and below: http://soundcloud.com/eric-keeney–

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Music, photography and video is always a work in progress it seems. I like this photo quite a lot. Hi Jefi!