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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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StrangeTango.com celebrates a milestone first birthday.
15 years was the timeframe between my first interactive multimedia class and the launch of StrangeTango.com: Life as Art. In the 1990’s, the Boston University College of Communication was one of the first colleges in the nation to teach a course in new media technologies. I was one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A shared memory of Senator Ted Kennedy by Paul Redmond. Paul is my former neighbor in pastoral Windham, New Hampshire; his late father was a former Massachusetts congressman who worked alongside the Kennedy family.
“I just woke from a sound sleep to the impending news from CNN of the loss of our nation’s most beloved [...]
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) convention in Boston, August 2009.
I was present when multimedia began to take over the world. Around 1994, interactive multimedia and internet technologies—new media—made its way into higher education. One of the first journalism schools to teach classes in this emergent field was the Boston University College of Communication.
William [...]
My Muse Room is in the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
I’ve alluded to The Muse Room in my dispatches and postings. It is a room on the top floors of the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When I first checked in, the reservationist told me the room was special.
Indeed it is—stunning view of water, sky, [...]
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
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Edgy and Ethereal
I would describe myself as a hybrid: a literary stylist and a formally trained broadcast and print journalist inhabiting the same body. Not all of the entries in the Life as Art blog are 3,000 word essays and commentary. Some days, the visitor may see an image that conveys 1,000 words, or [...]
Day #2 at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) convention in Boston. I realized we had achieved a milestone when someone I was just introduced to excitedly exclaimed, “So you’re Strange Tango! Everyone is talking about it!”
At the UNITY: Journalists of Color convention in Seattle in 2000, I was the AAJA National Scholarship Committee chairperson [...]
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