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StrangeTango.com is a multilayered art installation in cyberspace…the documentation of a life in three iterations: as a film treatment, a book, a blog. “What remains as documentation of a life?” Strange Tango haunts the boundaries of digital streams and visceral storytelling, where pixels and dreams flow together. Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world. Life is a strange tango...  Contemplate
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The great room of the 2010 Showcase Home. A builder featured on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Ron Nance belongs to an elite brotherhood. The President/CEO of The Oaks Development Company brings his signature touch in fine homebuilding to one of the strongest luxury home markets in the country, my hometown of Lawton, Oklahoma. My mother's secret courtyard garden that I created for her. A secret courtyard garden for my mother reminiscent of the tropical paradise where she was born, a spot where she could sit outdoors in the shade and inhale the familiar fragrances that remind her of her native home. I always give creative gifts, and [...] My Neo-Zen garden. Throughout literature, the garden has represented sanctuary. Voltaire’s world-weary Candide retired to cultivate his garden, contented with the philosophy of living a simple life, “all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.” The gardens I have cultivated in our various homes have always been contemplative spaces, an escape [...] Photograph and pens made of exotic woods by Joseph Yu. My husband, Joseph Yu, has always impressed me with his brilliant combination of artistry and technical precision. His background includes architecture at Cornell University and e-business at IBM. He also repairs and maintains his own vehicles. Then, just two weeks ago, he took up a [...] elegant, eclectic, minimalist, surprising
Simplicity—in its heightened form—is a chaste elegance, refinement, and self-knowledge. For an artist in the purest sense of the word, everything that defines one is an act of creative self-expression. To me, the components of a full life heavy with symbolism and meaning include serenity, intellectual stimulation and emotional engagement, and exposure to [...] Plumeria, or frangipani, has an intoxicating scent.
I’ve been very busy redesigning my garden. The landscaping the previous owners had professionally installed was heavy on xeriscaping; it had a very natural, low-maintenance look with out-of-control winter jasmine shrubs, liriope, hawthorne, and fountain grasses. But my favorite gardens are manicured, with fragrant plants that include roses, orchids, [...] |
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