caroline contillo

I’ve always been fascinated with art made by non-artists. Dance is a particularly compelling one. This project where scientists competed to dance their theses is pretty awesome. videos are found at the link below.
The 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Contest

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West St. Art, originally uploaded by ccontill.

Silkwood
The cliff house
Vacillations
all the songs i don’t know
Villa la roche
Red apple rest
Little teapot dome
Destroy this memory

Snow in Ridgewood, originally uploaded by ccontill.
After traps tangle, slip, hold buoys.
The pale perched plumb bobs, heart throbs,
Black Adirondack china soap dishes in the ceiling.
Thought it walked upon faded
blue glass and Claire was a warehouse.
The barn with an irregular curving fracture
and only a small limestone gargoyle, smooth and sinister.
She’d always lived in a field like [...]

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Greenpoint, originally uploaded by ccontill.

i go between talking to my twenty shoes
plenty clues clutching a bunch of meaningless slights
The brights , brass and pressed milk glass
In the gloaming arcade of homes and orange highways
she was [...]

When I was a wee child with dirt on my face from playing in the creek behind our house all day, there was a magical place called Tice’s Farm. It sat on a hilltop, just a stone’s throw away from where I grew up. It was a homestead from out of time, hemmed in by [...]

I’m wondering a lot these days if I could pull off a Karen Silkwood mullet.This is a recurring thought I have, regarding this particular haircut. I might just do it this time.

Also, if you’d like something quasi-handmade in the mail, just e-mail me your postal address. my e-mail address is caroline_contillo at mac dot com.

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Lite Brite Neon, originally uploaded by ccontill.

Sarah played at Issue Project Room last night, which is currently housed in the old american can factory in gowanus. This neon sign for the lite brite neon studio [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]