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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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MANTRA:
“She writes about emotion as a connoisseur of states of mind.” ~ Raphael Seligmann

12 MUSES platforms: ►Life as Art ‒ StrangeTango.com repository ►SHOWCASE ‒ interviews inspired by passion, innovation, and leadership ►Edgy and Ethereal ‒ Strange Tango’s iconic style ►CONNECTORS ‒ guest columnists, individuals, and concepts that link our world ►Millennials ‒ written for and by the digital generation ►Multicultural ‒ written for and by the multicultural community ►Neo-Zen ‒ elegant, eclectic, minimalist, surprising ►Art ‒ creativity and self expression ►Nest ‒ sanctuary ►Food ‒ a foodie’s discoveries, recipes and dining reviews ►Traveler ‒ insights from a traveler and citizen of the world ►Green ‒ gardening and sustainability
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Illumination. Inspiration. Innovation. Magic...

VISITOR COMMENT: ►"Hey Audrey - I finally got around to checking out your StrangeTango.com website, and I was absolutely astounded at how powerful it was! Congratulations, and I can't wait to read more on your blog! Definitely deserving of a Webby! Really impressive..." Boston, MA

Team Tango Birthday

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 [...]

THE PRESUMPTION OF GUILT: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America

My personal copy of this important new book by Charles Ogletree.

Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School has written the much anticipated and definitive book on the high-profile case involving the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge on July 16, 2009. The incident is of [...]

Leadership of a Diverse Workforce

In commemoration of President Barack Obama’s Proclamation of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I am honored to reproduce, with permission, a moving speech on diversity by a proud Filipino American, physician, and officer. Colonel Rodrigo Mariano, M.D., is Board Certified as a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine Physicians and is [...]

Intriguing Interviews and Guest Columnists in 2010

The salon at our operatic home in Windham, New Hampshire, an exurb of Boston.

StrangeTango.com’s literary/artistic aesthetic is at the nexus of art, modern culture, and politics. As a global platform for emerging voices, innovation, and creativity, guest columnists write about what they’re passionate about—that celebrates and commemorates their life, voice, or purpose.

An organic [...]

Athima Chansanchai, Journalist and Do-Good Entrepreneur

Athima Chansanchai, Tima Media

I was off the grid until I arrived on the social media scene just over six months ago, and Athima Chansanchai is one of my first cyber friends. I first noticed Athima when she joined the Strange Tango fan/friend page on Facebook, leaving thoughtful comments on my posts. I was impressed [...]

Steven Spriggs, Role Model Millennial

Steven Spriggs, Texas A&M '13

I first met Steven Spriggs a year ago when he was a senior at Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, applying for admission to Cornell University. As an alumna involved with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassadors Network (CAAAN), I am privileged to meet and to recruit many promising young men [...]

Happy New Year and Decade

Traditionally, I am incommunicado during the month of December. This is my time for rituals of reflection and spiritual rejuvenation. The last week of the year aligns Christmas, birthdays, and New Year’s: the sequence punctuates the finality and passing of time, which inspires me to make my surroundings comfortable and cocoon myself from the exterior [...]

Erin Yoshimura, Gil Asakawa, and visualizAsian.com

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 [...]

SPEAK, MEMORY

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 [...]

The Key to the Strange Tango Kingdom

“The next step is sharing her vision of cyberspace as the next frontier in the literary arts. Says Tejada, “For my collaborators and me, Strange Tango is a labor of love and a global platform for original and passionate creativity.’” ~Raphael Seligmann

Welcome to the world of Strange Tango. Conceptually speaking, the blog before you is an [...]

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