caroline contillo

i’ll be in louisiana for the next week, after a brie cheese gorging party at my apartment this evening. have a good one.

Oh, and for christmas, why not purchase or legally download from itunes the new
Chris Garneau EP, “C-Sides,” for which i designed the artwork. It has a delightful Christmas tune, after all…

First off I would like to mention and promote the fact that I find out about most of the events I post about on this blog from a really amazing mailing list called Nonsense NYC.   It’s a great weekly e-mail compiled by Jeff Stark of the Madagascar Institute, an art combine based in Brooklyn and  [...]

Classes are over. There’s a hellacious torrent of ice falling from the sky. I’m curled up next to a space heater older than the dinosaurs, studying for finals. I dreamed last night about a place I went to a few years ago in Astoria, Oregon, called the Wet Dog Cafe. Astoria is, meteorologically, the rainiest [...]

today i am having tuna with relish, mayo, green olive tapenade, and dided cornichons, on 14-grain bread, with an orange and granola.  i have placed it in ziplock bags, and i’m taking it with me as i walk to long island city to eat on one of the piers in front of those unsightly condos. [...]

I came across this woman’s photography on flickr while i was searching for images of Haverstraw, NY to illustrate a post I was writing about my history as a diner waitress. Sometimes before work I would go on long drives up the Hudson River until I was almost lost and then walk around towns with [...]

So for anyone interested in what I am doing, academically, allow me to indulge. I was recently admitted into the Thomas Hunter Honors Program here at Hunter College. I just met with an advisor where we discussed my major and minor interest. I’m leaning, now, towards a major in Art History (which will appear on [...]

is the sort of oxymoronic myspace bulletin that will have you forcefully removed from my personal space dot com.
also I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for a disappointing lakc of content in the last week or so. i am floating atop a choppy sea of academic and work-oriented brain spasms that prevent [...]

so in lieu of actual content, here is a video from a dear friend of mine.

I’m going to hold back on any Scientology jokes since I think that’s just a cop out. But I would really like to know why Tom Cruise is going for either early 90’s lesbian chic or a Dumb & Dumber look? It is invading my nightmares and making me really uncomfortable.

My single favorite thing to look at is a building — a house or an apartment– dusted by crepuscular twilight, with the glow of lamplight emitting from a window. I would argue that this is not voyeuristic in nature, although half the pleasure is seeing the activity on the inside framed by the muffled luminescence [...]