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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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Neo-Zen simplicity is Strange Tango's style.

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“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...

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Lawton Farmer’s Market

At the Lawton Farmer's Market, a truckload of melons from Daniel's Farm in Chandler is a glorious sight.

Before I returned to the southwest Oklahoma town where I grew up, I lived in seven major American cities and traveled throughout the world. When possible, whether in Boston, Bangkok, or Dakar, I would look for local [...]

Still Life with Armani

Still life composition with Armani.

 

To live life as art, attunement and scale are the essentials, not the resources of a financier or industrialist. Many images of beauty that I create—my handiwork—cost nothing at all, or very little, and yet, I live life to the fullest.

I have always appreciated the thought and effort cosmetics companies place [...]

My Neo-Zen Garden

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cloudburst

John Psaropoulos

 

John Psaropoulos is the Editor of The New Athenian; he is also a correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) and CNN in Greece. We had met at the start of our journalism careers working at CNN International in Atlanta. John had studied at King’s College in London, and I had a master’s degree in [...]

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 [...]

Facebook September 16-29: Neo-Zen, Road Trip, Muse, Libra, Current Events, Links

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 [...]