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Sisters Dissonance bringing Mondo Instante to the 2012 Newport Folk Festival

If you follow my collaborative projects blog, Mental Beans! you may already be participating in the now well established photography project, Mondo Instante. If not and you are just learning about it, read on for more information, and please consider joining in!

Veterans of the MI project, you know what to do! Look below for the date and the time specific to your time zone to find out when you need to take your photo and submission information.

Sisters Dissonance will be hosting the next Mondo Instante event which is scheduled to take place while Ady and I are at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island at the end of this month. We are asking festival goers to join current MI participants for this round.

If you are joining us via an invitation you received while at the Newport Folk Festival

Welcome and thank you for looking further into this project! We hope you will join in by taking a photo at the predetermined date and time, and submit it to be included in the Mondo Instante 19 online photo exhibition. Instructions how to participate follow, but first a little bit of background on the project:

Mondo Instante (MI) is a global photography experiment that has been running monthly since October of 2010. It is a synchronized, time-specific global photography event that only lasts only one minute.

When an event is announced, the date and time is given in UTC time and is then converted for local times for it’s participants all around the world. At the specified MI event time, participants take a photo of where they are/what they are doing or seeing at that exact moment. Photos can be pre-planned, or they can be totally off the cuff (often much more fun!).

The idea is to create, for just a brief moment in time, little windows into each of the lives of the participants, who are located all around the world. The photo taking and subsequent viewing is great fun, but just as captivating is that feeling of unity, however brief, that is caused by the simultaneous anticipation that comes with taking part in a coordinated global event. For more information including background information on the project’s origins, visit the Mondo Instante information page on this site, and give a Like on the Mental Beans! Facebook page to keep up to date on MI announcements and events.

Mondo Instante 19 – Get your cameras ready! Spread the word!

Mondo Instante 19 EVENT: Sunday July 29, 2012 18:00:00 UTC

Time zone breakdown:

*NEWPORT FESTIVAL ATTENDEES*
 Please take your photo between 2:00 and 2:01 PM SUNDAY JULY 29, 2012

  • Tel Aviv Israel | Helsinki Finland 9 PM IDT
  • Rome Italy | Belgrade Serbia | Vienna Austria | Barcelona Spain | Stockholm Sweden 8 PM CEST
  • England | Scotland | Northern Ireland 8 PM BST
  • Buenos Aires Argentina 3 PM ART
  • EST U.S.A. & CANADA | NEWPORT, RI NYC, Cleveland, Toronto, Detroit 2 PM EDT
  • CST USA & CANADA | Lafayette, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Antonio 1PM CDT
  • MST USA & CANADA | Denver, Calgary 12 PM MDT
  • PST USA | Seattle, Las Vegas, San Diego 11 AM PDT

Monday, July 30, 2012

  • Auckland New Zealand 6 AM NZST
  • Melbourne Australia – Victoria 4 AM EST

Submission Information

Please include your name (first, first/last, or whatever you are called) and a sentence or two about your photo. Please include your location (Newport Folk Festival attendees can simply state NFF). If possible submit images as a 72dpi image at about 600×800.
Photo submission deadline: Friday, August 3, 2012
Send photos to: mentalbeans [at] tuliptreestudios dot com
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Images from past Mondo Instante events

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header photo: Guitar by Kara for MI6 Wednesday, March 9, 2011 7:30 pm UTC

Photos | Sharon Van Etten live at Union Transfer 6-21-2012

View Ady’s photo set of Sharon Van Etten live at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA via the Sisters Dissonance Flickr gallery.

Quick wit and amazing sounds came from this gal and her band on Thursday the 21st. I was fortunate enough to photograph this show, and listen to her awesome melodic tunes for the evening. I’m very much looking forward to seeing her  again at the Newport Folk Festival July 28th.

 

Felice Brothers – live at the Mauch Chunk Opera House 2012

I think I speak for both Ady and I when I say that Jim Thorpe, PA has solidly planted itself at the top of our list of favorite towns to visit together. We were there the for the first time last year when the Brothers blew into town and played the Mauch Chunk Opera House, and we were quickly taken in by the old world charm oozing from its every nook and cranny. The town’s residents welcome their visitors warmly, and when the Felice Brothers arrive it’s as if there is a conspiracy of fun erupting—doors propped open and residents standing at their doorsteps to say hello, music players set on the porch blasting Felice Brothers albums, posters announcing their arrival plastered on every flat surface available—turning the town into one giant welcome party.

We had such a great time during our first visit that I was inspired to work on the illustration Two Sisters and a Tavern when we returned home. After spending many hours working on the illustration back then, I found it disorienting and surreal to be walking around Jim Thorpe once again. The illustration, a semi fact/semi fictitious geographical mash up of places and events, consumed me and became so vivid in my mind during its creation that when I stepped out onto the streets from our hotel room, it seemed that buildings had become displaced (“That shop/bar/tree should not be there! Should it?”).

After my own personal wave of bewildered nostalgia subsided, we headed out and about prepared for our Jim Thorpe adventures that awaited. We traveled there (almost exactly a year later from last year’s show, and this year, no tire blow out!) for the 2012 return with two wonderful friends, Cindy and Kristi, with much anticipation and excitement. We knew (rightly so) that the town would once again turn into the veritable Felice Brothers cheering squad. We tooled around the main drag for several hours before the show before finally tucking into Crave Fine Food & Spirits, a little gem of a tea house/restaurant that also serves spirits and other beverage delights, before we set out to the show, the pinnacle of our trip that involved four friends/two sisters plotting our convergence on a single ultimate destination—Kristi (author of Not That Kind of Groupie) traveling from Dolores, Colorado, Cindy from Brighton, Michigan and me from Cleveland, Ohio to meet up with my sis, Ady, traveling up from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was the perfect trip and reaffirmed what Ady and I knew: Jim Thorpe and the Mauch Chunk Opera House is the best place to see a show—especially when it is the Felice Brothers.

James and Ian Felice of the Felice Brothers live at Mauch Chunk Opera House 6/23/2012

It was everything I had hoped the trip would be, great company traveling to and from, a fun day on the town followed by a fantastic show from the Felice Brothers, who also sung praises for Jim Thorpe and were visibly charged by the audience’s exuberance. A single math equation to sum it all up: Jim Thorpe + The Felice Brothers (@Mauch Chunk) = THE magic combination.

(A little shout out to Meghan and Amy, who we ran into again, always nice to say hello to new friends!)

Full photo set from the Felice Brothers at the Mauch Chunk Opera House 2012 on Flickr

Last year’s show: Felice Brothers Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House 2011 photoset via Flickr

Two Sisters and a Tavern illustration original post – prints available! Please contact us if you are interested!

Photos | Red Hot Chili Peppers Columbus, OH

I have never been at a Red Hot Chili Peppers show that has been anything less than incredible (and FUN!). As musicians and performers, the Chili Peppers are enchanting—their ability to convey the energy, power and sheer delight that comes from creating and sharing their music is something else.

For this reason, I decided that my camera would remained holstered for the majority of this show. I’d seen a sea of cameras (as well as a 6-foot high dancing chili pepper!) in the audience so I figured the show was being well documented already. I did however find it irresistible to capture a few great moments from Flea, Josh Klinghoffer, and Chad Smith. These photos say it all. (Anthony Kiedis is missing here of course, but the real Sis-Diss photo gal Ady captured a full set from the Philly show in May, so check her post for many more photos).

As always, many many thanks to an amazingly generous friend for the opportunity to experience it all. You know who you are and I hope you know how much you are appreciated. I had a great time with Renee!

Nelsonville Music Festival 2012 in photos

For a full slide show visit the Sisters Dissonance Nelsonville 2012 Photogallery

Nelsonville Music Festival 2012Quick stop at the wonderful FullBrooks Cafe, Nelsonville OHShan at FullBrooks Cafe, Nelsonville OHFullBrooks Cafe in the distanceStuart's Opera House, Nelsonville OHNelsonville, OH bricks
NMF2012-00141NMF2012-00142NMF2012-00143NMF2012-00125NMF2012-00126Jessica Lee Mayfield
Escaping the heatHope for AgoldensummerDiscovering Bigfoot at the Nelsonville Music FestivalNMF2012-00152Shovels and RopeNMF2012-00156
NMF2012-00157NMF2012-00158Shovels and RopeShovels and RopeShovels and RopeNMF2012-00167

80 photos from Saturday May 19, 2012 including Shovels and Rope, Mucca Pazza, Jessica Lee Mayfield, R. Ring, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, Roky Erickson, Andrew Bird and Lee Scratch Perry.

More about the festival and the day we spent there can be found here.

Videos coming next!