caroline contillo

There is some truth to the old, old adage that says something along the lines of “having a significant other who functions as an audience for all the detritus that filters both in and out of one’s consciousness on an hourly basis greatly diminishes one’s tendency to focus all of this crap into consistent blog [...]

Santa’s robe of red edged with white are the colours of Amanita muscaria, that the idea of Santa clambering down the chimney evokes the entry via the smoke hole into Siberian yurts during winter. Moreover, the reindeers that pull the sleigh can be seen to link to the reindeer-herder tribes who took the magic mushroom. And the magic flight of Santa Claus through the midwinter night sky is a superb expression of the basis of all shamanism – ecstasy, or the flight of the spirit.

In November, two orbs of light entered into Annie Dobson’s home.
are such orbs related, in any way, to the light artifacts found in photography? Largely a discredited aspect of paranormal study, photographic orbs are said by some to have an intentional and almost sentient mechanism of presentation. could they be an example of our consciousness [...]

At my parents house, the chosen Christmas music is John Fahey’s Christmas recordings.
There are a few of them, and each is amazing. Fahey was first an musicologist and, stemming from this passion, a musician. He worked largely within the folk and blues tradition that he was interested in historically, and often lent a deconstructed [...]

If this is something that I can actually look forward to having access to sometime in my lifespan, I can certainly die happy once I’ve had one of my dreams projected on the big screen.
Scientists develop software that can map dreams
A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and [...]

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carousel at garden state plaza, originally uploaded by ccontill.

carousels, whether stationed near the mcdonalds at the garden state plaza or on a deserted beach on one of the fingerlakes near a wharf with the most [...]

processions, seasonal festivals, the movement of the planets through their cyclical positions in the heavens, ritual decadence, asceticism, the cosmic kiss of billiards, the constant battle of the dionysian versus the apollonian desires. i’ve been thinking about medieval mystery pageants lately, and they make me want to trek up to the cloisters and move through [...]

salvage yard miscellany, originally uploaded by ccontill.
These images are from an architectural salvage yard in barnegat, new jersey. It’s a sleepy shore town, near Long Beach Island, where we spent Thanksgiving. The yard is, visually, a sort of hoarding writ large, with commercial benefits for the owners. Here are some of the treasures at Recycling [...]