Our resident photographer, Sarah Tamar, went off the grid this past weekend and lived to tell about it.  Here’s her story:

When the big white van pulled up in front of my spot in Brooklyn and six of us piled into the back for the three hour ride to the Muddy River Jam Festival (http://www.muddyriverjam.com/) this past weekend in Woodstown, New Jersey, I knew it was going to be one of those perfectly wild summertime city escape stories you talk about for years to come.

Not disappointed, the festival consisted of everything from amazing music (The Join, Perpetual Groove, Future Rock, Telepath etc.) to life-sized, paper-mâché animals by artists Katelyn Bischoff and Dominique Festa. Art director Conor Kneeshaw and company constructed amazing structures out of bamboo and cloth. Patrick McCarthy sold $1 grilled cheese sandwiches off the front of his 1970′s French moped.  The Green Man made an appearance. There was a Flaming Lips-esque giant hamster ball. Vitamin Water, one of the sponsors, gave us a case of caffeinated, black cherry-lime water. There was a lot of 4Loko. Our campground was the only place in the festival with no grass and more than one person likened our aesthetic to a tricked out Burning Man. I snapped Polaroids.

Epic. Simply epic. I returned alive, covered in mud, and slept for two days.