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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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Moulton Brown's New Age Traveler kit
New Age Traveler is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
My favorite travel agent booked me for automatic electronic upgrades to first class, so on two round trip legs between Manchester, New Hampshire, and Chicago, air travel was sheer bliss. On the second [...]
Our home in Windham, New Hampshire
Nest is an excerpt from Millennium Muse, my book of narrative nonfiction, essays, and observations.
Except for the house in Somerville, which Joseph bought with our best man at our wedding as the first real estate project for flipping, I have always located the properties and negotiated the purchase of [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
If I were president and a highly ambitious, driven individual with my iron fist inside the velvet glove, how would I choose my staff and cabinet?
I would first turn to friends with whom I have a high comfort level, to smart and capable people who have proven themselves over the years and have remained personally [...]
God sent us an angel. That’s what the preacher’s wife told me when I saw her today. Yesterday, she had been sitting at a makeshift table wondering how she was going to get the zip codes to mail business announcements to the hospital at Ft. Sill. I overheard her and volunteered to deliver her menus [...]
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 [...]
We went through several iterations before coming up with the name for the website: Mermaid and Sun…Muse and Tango…Millennium Muse…among them. The act of naming a personal website is like choosing a baptismal name—signifying a new life—for yourself. So I sent out a Quick Poll to gauge the fleeting impressions left by prospective titles.
One response, [...]
Strange Tango is the name of my personal website—as well the literary novella that inspired the site. The website is a showcase for emerging talent and a platform for my writings, photography, and experimental work. Thus, the website and my novella are inextricably linked—each enhancing the experience of the other.
In the novella, the mantra “This [...]
These aren’t just quotes from Strange Tango, the epistolary novella…they’re also mantras.
I believe that mantras can change and focus your life. My personal favorite is, “I don’t compete: I won’t be an afterthought.” This mantra took form in my mind over dinner with a friend when he confided his discomfort with his place in the [...]
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