Proxemics... ArchitecturE, Painting, Writing, Poetry, Dancing, Photo-
graphy, Sketching, Wanderlusting, Bonfires, Bacchanalia, Chirapsia...
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MY WORK:
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Painting available by private commission only. Current Paris commissions: Texas (private collector), NYU & Paris (private collector). Contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com to discuss your project. Thank you.
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Published & Promotional Work: Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven, Vols. I & II , UNjobs Association of Geneva (Switzerland): historical photo-documentation of Cany-Barville (Normandie, France), Schmap Guide to Glasgow: photo-documentaion of the Mackintosh School of Art, 3:am Magazine (Paris), Negative Space Zine (Boston), Magazine BLU (Philadelphia), Hecale (UK), Gentle Music Men music (Vilanova), Micka Luna music (Barcelona), Thomas Bel music (Toulouse), Dennis Cahlo music (Brooklyn), Guy Licata music (Brooklyn), Posh Army music (Cleveland).
If you are interested in any of the images in my catalogue for use in print/digital media or would like a signed, high-resolution print, contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you.
.. MiDEA foto projekt @ MySpace ..
archiTecture
portfolio
If you are in need of architectural consultation services, building code analysis, feng shui, interior design, artwork or furniture selection, existing conditions & feasibility surveys and/or design advice, kindly send an email via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you. ( Curriculum Vitae )
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journal My new poetry-photo book,
Observing the Labyrinth from Heaven
is available < HERE >
If you would like to use any of my poems in music or at poetry
readings or if you would like to collaborate in writing your lyrics,
please contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com. Thank you. .. hollace m metzger Poetry @ MySpace / @ ViRB ..
Mus(e)ic
collab projekt
current / previous Collaborations:
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa productions /
Ballet National de Marseille -Amsterdam
vox/poetry Auskeur/Nick Auskeur -UK
vox/poetry Daniele Camarda -New Delhi
vox/poetry/photo Delphinius -St.Paul,USA
poetry Dennis Cahlo / Saints & Lovers -New York
photo/poetry DJ Jeff Gold -Montreal
vox/poetry Graphium -Fife,Scotland
vox/poetry Malcolm Fisher/French Impressionists -UK & Milan
poetry Micka Luna -Barcelona
music composition/lyrics/poetry/vox Oisin Lunny -Brighton
vox/poetry Project:5.am -London
vox/poetry Shanyio -Timisoara,Romania
vox/poetry Thomas Bel -Toulouse
vox/poetry Tiago Benzinho -Portugal
vox/poetry Vitor Joaquim -Portugal
vox/poetry .. hMMP Music Collab @ MySpace ..
If you would like to use any of my poems in music or at poetry
readings or if you would like to collaborate in writing your lyrics,
please contact me via www.HollaceMetzger.com . Thank you.
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MY LIVING:
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Crossing bridges...
kundalini, tactility, "touches, tastes & tangibilities," chiaroscuro, conducting social experiments of proximity and eye contact on the subway, oneness, pâtisseries, paganism, polycarbonates, percussion brushes, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, thrifting-being thrifty-being nifty, convertible road trips w/ mixtapes, gnocchi @ Acqua Santa, chado ritual, the quinta essentia, cooking, baking, necking, cubism, futurism, contortionism, literature, used bookstores, multiplicities, complexities, free verse, beatniks, onomatopoea, tension-compression, nonlinear thought, Beethoven's Kreutzer, sweet guys w/studded belts & studs w/white belts, sexy divas, fashion, muses, teuchters, translucency, tennis, snowboarding, baci ball, wine-stained lips, meditation, forces around us which we have no control over, Time-Space & Electromagnetism = String Theory, man-scarves, soup can telephones, Venetian glass, fine wines & a good beer, the process of sharing a boiled artichoke, amber, frozen time, mental orgasms & lasciviousness, Morago , Jan Saudek, vintage lingerie, SIM-City, Trajan's Column as the
first film, random acts of kindness, furry creatures, international travel/languages...
Paint...
... art . movements ...
Autumn...
Foreign hotel rooms...
Williamsburg and this Williamsburg as well, contemporary galleries, old vinyls-older books-even older buildings (juxtaposed to really new buildings), strange fruits, vintage drafting tools, Magnolia Bakery, excessively bubbled baths, gelato, singing loudly, walking in the rain, skipping, rooftops, cartwheels, eye contact, multi-hued sunsets, mancala, the Kentucky Derby, sipping mint juleps under a big floppy hat, silk scarves and big sunglasses, gaelic , George Ohr's vessels, my Dremmel, power tools, beating on taut leather stretched over anything ovalyn, syzygy, chantney, dinner parties, Zinc Bar , scars w/ stories, imperfections, thinking in Italian when affected w/ wine, grape stomping, feng shui, Vespas & anything that makes me feel like I am the missing member of Devo...
And for the past 12 years, my life has been very devoted to this:
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I'd like to meet:
These People:
+ Callipygians, Crooners, Couchsurfers, Creatives & other Counter-reformed Catholic schoolgirls... ...Oenophiles. Omphalopsychites. Other troubadours. Active thinkers with passion for life & learning. B-Z types. Altruists. Anti-fanatics. Eunuchs. Reikis. Warriors, Poets, Warrior-Poets. All of my chakras at the same time. Glass-blowers. Instigateurs of laughter. Nonpareils, Nonlinear thinkers & those w/ positive energy. Gals who know they're beautiful, Guys who don't. People who have made a conscious choice to preserve & respect the environment. Someone who can sing my Peter, Paul & Mary knowledge under the table. People who will model nude so that I may draw them. Artsy man in unbuttoned white button-down who will let me watch him play cello. Other affectionate women. Partners to take more dance classes with. People who can raise a roof with their own voice (or opinions). Web-footed boatmen. The gender-ambiguous. Beings who are not afraid to allow their heart to make their mind up for them. Those who still believe in the practice & efficacy of chivalry. A "long-legged, guitar-pickin' man." People who spell 'theatre' as noted, have afternoon tea or eat crumpets but still think it's funny. People who like to say 'crum-pets'. Naturists, at your place. People who speak in a Venetian dialect...or, who want me to design their home, cd-jackets, furniture or give 'em a little bit of that Feng Shui-fusion!...Oh, & anyone who can transcribe recent MR images of my brain for free, please.
+ Allen Ginsberg, Carlo Broschi, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, Arthur Schopenhauer, Gerhard Richter, Ãlvaro Leite Siza Viera, Mikhail Baryshnikov under a full moon (and preferably, with my best dress on), The Countess of Dia, Paolo Soleri, Christine de Pisan, Caravaggio, Bernini, Michelangelo, Christopher Wren, Egon Schiele, David Myriam, Le Corbusier, Audrey Hepburn, Mario Ruoppolo, Pablo Neruda, Mama Cass, Jean Carlu (after he lost his arm), James Dean, Pablo Picasso, Joan of Arc, Marlon Brando, Nelson Mandela, Edith Piaf, David (preferably not caste in stone), Galileo, Shakespeare, Mr.Tambourine Man, Helmut Newton, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Duchamp, Santiago Calatrava, Voltaire, The Dalai Llama & Jesus (in the same room), Jeff Buckley (in my room), Julia Childs (in my kitchen), Tankman, Twiggy, The Crocodile Hunter, Queen Victoria, Bob Ross and all of his "happy" things, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carlo Scarpa (unless having a chat with him at his grave counted), Emperor Augustus, my great-great-grandfather in Koln, my great-great-great...grandmother in Bohemia (I know Beethoven was ugly, but I could have been a f'ing heiress!?!), any of the great Doges, Lee Krasner, Mies van der Rohe, Alberto Giacometti, Mr. Rogers, Georges Braques, Robert Nesta Marley, Guiseppe Terragni & Oscar Niemeyer (for a sketching session & political debate), Frida Kahlo, William Wallace, Vitruvius, Hitler (so I could pop him one in the jaw & tell him he sucked as an architect), Piet Mondrian, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Vivaldi, Brunelleschi (in Florence, I'd like to understand his perspective), Fred Astaire, Andrea Palladio, Sigmund Freud, Robert Doisneau, Kazimir Malevich, the maternal grandfather of every man i meet in the future... and your Mother, of course.
my roof, Festa del Giglio , Williamsburg
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Jacqueline Christine
Micka Luna
Thomas Bel
Torus Biglane
Julian Stockdale
Dennis Cahlo
michael
Vitor Joaquim
M i s c h a
João Pedro Leitão
SCROGGIN
HERR P. - The Ombudsman
Luke Slott
Lily
Oisin Lunny
Claudia
Joshua Bell
Kell
JERALD IEANS
Jesse DeNatale
Pablo Honey
Issam Krimi
Frederik De Wilde // Impure // Black Ghost Knife
Annabelle
Chauncey
Yves Marchand
Jonathan
Shahram Shiva
Joe Render
Stephen Murray
Sounds in Bloom
GWLGRAPHISME
Haresh
Tiago Benzinho
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Ramadi Asati
Bjørn Giesenbauer
shanyio
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Music:
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Storytellers from the Mississipi Delta to Mali...
+ Any drum beat that throws me into convulsions, lavotte, goltraige-gentraige-antraige, anything w/ 3-chords+12-bar sequence, qawwali music + Afro Celt Sound System, The Afrosippi Allstars, Air, Alaska in Winter, Alessandra Celletti, Ali Farka Toure, Alpha Blondy, Alison Krauss, Andrey Vinogradov, Angelo Badalamenti, Anita O'Day, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Antonio Vivaldi, Antony & the Johnsons, Arab Strap, Arcade Fire, Arcana, Art of Noise, ARVO PART, Astrud/Joao Gilberto, Autechre, AYUB OGADA, Babatunde Olatunji, Bardukah, any of the Bata tribal chants, Beirut, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds Five, Ben Harper, Ben Mitchell, Ben Webster, Bessie Smith, Big Bad Plus Give, Billie Holiday, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Blarvuster, Brian Eno, Buena Vista Social Club, Bunny Wailer, Burning Spear, Carlos Gardel, Cat Stevens, Cecilia Bartoli, Cesaria Evora, Charles Aznavour, Charles Lloyd, Chavela Vargas, Chemical Brothers, Chris Cuzme, Christine Primrose, Clancy Brothers, Claude Challe, Claude Debussy, Clint Mansell, Cocorosie, Coldplay, Conjunto Cespedes, Cristiano Serino, Crosby-Stills-Nash, Cure, Dafinis Prieto, Daft Punk, Danez Prigent, Danilo Perez, Dave Brubeck, David Gray, David Wilcox, Deniz Atalay, Devendra Banhart, Devotchka, Dhruva, Dinah Washington, Django Reinhardt, Dmitry Shostakovich, The Doors, DuOuD, Durutti Column, Dvorak, Eddie from Ohio, Edith Piaf, Eleni Karaindrou, Elis and Tom, Ella Fitzgerald, Ellis Paul, Ennio Morricone, Eric Satie, Erkan Ogur, Estas Tonne, Etoiles, Explosions in the Sky, Etta James, The Faint, Finbar Furey, Flight of the Conchords, France Gall, Franz Ferdinand, Franz Schubert, Gang Gang Dance, George Abdo, George Friederic Handel, Giacomo Puccini, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, GLENN GOULD, Gogol Bordello, Gotan Project, Gothart, Gotye, Giuseppe Verdi, Guillaume de Machaut, Gustavo Santaolalla, Gypsy Kings, Hans Zimmer, Harry Belefonte, Harry McClintock, A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Herbie Hancock, Hildegard Kleeb, Hildegard von Bingen's lyric set to music, Interpol, Jack Johnson, Jacques Brel, Jaga Jazzist, Jamiroquai, Jane Birkin, Jayhawks, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Paul Egide Martini, Jeff Beal, JEFF BUCKLEY, Joan Baez, Joanna Newsom, Jocelyn Pook, Joe Lovano, Johann Sebastian BACH, John Jacob Niles, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell...
"...to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free..."
...Jorge Benjor, Jose Feliciano, JOSE GONZALEZ, Joshua Bell, Julia Kent, Kaki King, Kalai, Kane Roth, Karine Polwart, Kayhan Kalhor, KEITH JARRETT, Kenny Anderson, King Creole, King Creosote, Kings of Convenience, Kingsuk Biswas, The Kinks, The Knife, Kocani Orkestar, Kraftwerk, Krister Linder, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ladytron, LEIF, Lelonek, Leonard Cohen, Lila Downs, Lisa Gerard, Loney Dear, Lorne Cousin, LUCKY DIOP, Ludovico Einaudi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luke Slott, MADREDEUS, Mahala Raï Banda, Majek Fashek & The Prisoners of Conscience, Malinky, Mandragora, Marc Cohn, Maria Callas, Maria Rita, Markos Vamvakaris, Mary Hopkin, Martin Sexton, Matou & Monsieur B, Maxwell, Meat Beat Manifesto, Mediaeval Baebes, Mendelssohn, Micka Luna, Mickey Hart, MidiVal Punditz, midnight juggernauts, Mikis Theodorakis, Miles Davis, Miriam Gauci, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Misstress Barbara, Mogwai, Moby, Moody Blues, My Latest Novel, Nana Mouskouri, Natacha Atlas, Natalie Haas, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, The New Lost City Ramblers, NICK DRAKE, Nicola Piovani, Nino Rota, Norah Jones, Norman Blake, Nouvelle Vague, Nuova Orchestra Sarm, NUSRAT FATEH ALI KAHN, early Oasis, Odetta, Offenbach, Olafur Arnalds, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Orchestre Baobab de Dakar, Ornette Coleman, OTHA TURNER, Ottmar Liebert, Oumou Sangare, Paganini, Pajtasi, Palyrria, Papi Oviedo, Pat Metheney, Paul Giovanni, Pearl Bailey, Peter Paul and Mary, Peter Tosh, Pharoah Sanders, PHILIP GLASS, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Portishead, RACHEL'S, Rachid Taha, Radiohead, Ravel, Ravi/Anoushka Shankar, Ray Lamontagne, Red Snapper, Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, Robert Duncan, Robert Nesta Marley, Rossini, Royksopp, Rufus Wainwright, Ruy Mingas, Saint Etienne, Saint-Saens, SALIF KEITA, Sam Mangwana, Sarah Brightman, Schoenberg, Sebastien Tellier, Sepideh Vahidi, Serge Gainsbourg, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Shye Ben-Tzur, Sigur Ros, Simon and Garfunkel, Sinead O'Conner, The Smiths, Sol Seppy, Spaccanapoli, Stan Getz, Stephane Pompougnac, St. Germain, The Stills, Sub Swara, Sufjan Stevens, Swans, Talvin Singh, Tarab Orkestar, Taraf de Haidouks, Tartini, Tartit, Teitur, Tito Puente, Tommy Makem, Tool, Totico y sus Rumberos, Underworld, Van Morrison, The Velvet Underground, Vikter Duplaix, White Stripes, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Fitzsimmons, Wynton Marsalis, Yael Naim, Yan Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yo la Tengo, Yngve, Zlatne Uste + anything with a cane fife, chanter or Armenian dudek. It's all about the mood and absolutely MUST have soul.
Oh, and SILENCE...
Lots of...
conscious...
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silence.
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Movies:
Downtown 81, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Die Blechtrommel, Farinelli, Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, Cinema Paradiso, Mystery White Boy (It will be good!), Last Night, The Suspended Step Of The Stork, Bent (if you're gay, see it), The Red Violin, Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Chelsea Girls, Roma, Pinero, Il Postino, A Clockwork Orange, East of Eden, Not One Less, Serenade, East-West, Chungking Express, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Braveheart, Vanilla Egg Creme, Man on the Moon, La Vita e Bella, Basquiat, Amelie, Delicatessen, Goya in Bordeaux, Kafka, Tengoku to Jigoku, The Life of Oharu, Orfeu Negro, Gangs of New York, What Happened to Kerouac, Chocolat, Breathless, Pi, Manhattan, Nashville, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Pianiste, Alphaville, Swing Kids, The Animation Show, Raise the Red Lantern, My Architect, Memento, Crazed Fruit, To Build a House, Angel Heart, Shawshank Redemption, Julien Donkey-Boy, Truman Show, Coffee and Cigarettes, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Saturday Night Fever, Frida, Red/Blue/White, Pollock, La Dolce Vita, Rebel Without a Cause, Malena, Vincent and Theo, The Belly of an Architect, any Muppet movie/Show...yep, Blade Runner, Grease, Pulp Fiction, Dead Poet's Society, A Beautiful Mind, Gone With the Wind, O Brother Where Art Thou, Last Tango in Paris, Gosford Park, Seabiscuit, What Happened to Kerouac?, The Notebook, Scent of a Woman + anything Fellini, Girard, Godard, Jeaunet, François Girard, Kurosowa, Mizoguchi, Antonioni, Angelopoulos, with or by Werner Herzog + new-school Pixar-type/old-school Disney animated...
and all things Noir.
"Life is (already) a stage."
Books:
yes, Television...
nein.
But, I guess sometimes it can be fun.
Books
"Forse se tu gustassi una sol volta
La millesima parte delle gioje,
Che gusta un cor amato riamando,
Diresti ripentita sospirando,
Perduto e tutto il tempo
Che in amar non si spende."
Webb/Corby: The Little Book of Hand Shadows (1927), Torquato Tasso's 15C. poetry (see above), GUIDO CAVALCANTI, Fernando Pessoa, Günter Grass: Die Blechtrommel, Frances Mayes: A Year in the World-Journeys of a Passionate Traveler; Rassa Shastra: Inayat Khan, Oscar Wilde, Anais Nin: Delta of Venus & Little Birds, Lee Sannella: The Kundalini Experience, Berendt: City of Falling Angels, Schiele: Eros & Passion, Chopra: Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire, Mike Tyler: From Colorado to Georgia (stolen from the Carleton Arms Hotel, nyc), all Ishihara, Eugénio de Andrade, Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks, Le Parfum, Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Odysseus Elitis's poetry, Lobagola: An African Savage's Own Story (a true story of a Jewish African cannibal's migration to New York), Duras: Blue Eyes Black Hair, Mann: Death in Venice, etc., Gide: The Immoralist, Swami Narayanananda: The Primal Power in Man / The Kundalini Shakti, Bradfield: History of Luminous Motion, all Derrida, most Nietzsche, SCHOEPENHAUER, Mathew Gregory Lewis: The Monk (1796),
Barthe: A Lover's Discourse, Kubler: The Shape of Time, Le Petite Prince, The Oxford English Dictionary as opposed to the Urban Dictionary, all Jalaludin RUMI & Thoreau, Man and His Measure (because of where and when I found the book), most Marquis de Sade (for stormy nights), Heller: Catch 22, Rand: The Fountainhead (just like everyone else!) & Atlas Shrugged, Bender: The Physics of Qi, John Hay: The Breadwinners, all Pablo Neruda & Robert Desnos' poetry, Vitruvius, Illiad, Odyssey, Rowe/Slutzky: Transparency, Hejduk: Such Places As Memory & his Last Works, Sanctuaries, & his all-around inspiration, Highwater: The Primal Mind, Koolhaas: Delirious New York, **Jeanette Winterson: The Passion**, Turgenev, Ezra Pound, Strindberg, Bataille, Breton, Sebald (Vertigo, Austerlitz), Keats & Yeats (..they're on your side), Gill: Art Lover-Biography of Peggy Guggenheim, all KEROUAC (Tristessa, On the Road, etc., etc.) & GINSBERG/Beat Poets, Sylvia Plath, HENRY MILLER, Kundera: Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hall-Tharpe: Mrs. Jack, Robilant: A Venetian Affair, all Italo Calvino & Shakespeare (read thrice!), Arthur Miller's plays, The Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophers, many many many cookbooks, America Oggi & Il Gazzettino newspapers, a few sentimental items of exchange & acquisition: A 1898 copy of The Merchant of Venice; A paperback of The Phantom of the Opera given to me at a hotel in Barcelona; Guide to the Adirondacks given to me while hiking the Adirondacks; The Pictish Guide given to me as a departing gift from Glasgow; A canal water-soaked Taschen publication of Carlo Scarpa: Complete Works acquired from a Venetian gypsy...& a fond appreciation for any author buried under the cobbles of Westminster Cathedral (minus Edward I).
Heroes:
People who stick together.
People who dream of ways we can all stick together.
And, people who cause other people to stick together by sticking together.
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