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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...
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Michael Pang, Cornell '11
As a former Cornell University Trustee—and part of an alumni network of 7,000 volunteers—I have connected possibly hundreds of Cornellians on my personal Facebook page. Guest columnist Michael Pang, Cornell ’11, came to my attention when we friended each other on Facebook through a post about the Cornell Asian Alumni Association [...]
Erin Yoshimura and Gil Asakawa
Gil Asakawa and I first met at a multimedia presentation during the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) convention in Boston this past summer. As a former AAJA/New England National Board member and National Scholarship Chair, the launch of the personal website StrangeTango.com: Life as Art in my former hometown of [...]
Me, at the time I began writing Strange Tango.
The destinies of a pantheon of gifted Cornell graduates unfold through the internet.
After my niece had graduated from pre-kindergarten several years back, she started summer classes at vacation bible school where she saw Luke, a former classmate who had left the class to be home-schooled in [...]
As I recall, a high tech multimillionaire bought a book for a princely sum, but it wasn’t the rare edition you’d expect. It was a farmer’s almanac…a carefully kept journal ocumenting daily life—and an historical era. This level of authenticity captivated the future reader. By the same token, you don’t think this StrangeTango.com entry is [...]
While power surfing the internet, I found one of my first published essays in the Cornell Daily Sun Digital Archive. My writings have been digitized! It was good to revisit my roots in activism and community building—and to remind myself that, from an early age, my destiny was to be published.
No Deposit…No Return
My friend Doug was [...]
Serge was easily over six feet tall, his father was a Russian colonel, his mother Korean.
We were in high school together. Serge went off to study government at Yale, as did I at Cornell, and he had been accepted to law school. Apparently, he had died in an automobile accident; I heard he swerved to avoid [...]
The New Age Mona Lisa…is the iconic image of Strange Tango. We chose a portrait called hypnotic and alluring.
“The methodology requires intensity coupled with bouts of stillness to cull the pithy metaphor.” Strange Tango, the epistolary novella, page 39.
Strange tango is my metaphor for life.
I could have blogged about gardening…foodie reviews…travel…culture…or politics. But [...]
A confidential debriefing I wrote was once published in a popular, online college paper without my permission. I was deeply chagrined since my incisive insider’s perspective singled out an actual person in an otherwise hardworking and respected group.
My illustrated Facebook posts, July 16-21, 2009:
…for the 75% of my family and [...]
StrangeTango.com was featured by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) Convention News Project’s mobile journalism unit at the convention in Boston, August 12-15! Here’s the embedded video interview up on YouTube (you can tell that I hadn’t gotten much sleep for two weeks…). Kudos to journalism student Jackie Watanabe for her reporting. ~A.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNM-e-wAiNs
Read about the [...]
An early ambition was that I might enter politics or academia, or become a diplomat/lawyer/corporate executive with an international career. But my perspective has always been one of multiplicity: it felt more natural to me to see the interrelatedness of humanity than to become an expert specializing in a fragment of the universe. I wanted [...]
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