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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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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

Thanks for the Accolades

Thank you…we feel like Cinderella.

I wanted to share these beautifully worded sentiments about the Strange Tango website/blog from friends and visitors around the globe… ~A.

“It is stunning. I don’t recall ever seeing a more beautiful, artistic expression on the web. Congratulations to you and your friends/colleagues on constructing such a beautiful installation. Truly an [...]

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 [...]

Meals From the Grill

During the summer months, I love to cook on the grill beneath the portico by the kitchen. My family enjoys al fresco dining among the lush garden and water fountain as appetizing aromas waft through the air. For a week, June 3-9, I prepare lunch or dinner on the grill. My flavor profiles are global—combining Mediterranean, North African, [...]

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 [...]

Social Anthropology / Portrait of ~A. as an Adolescent

My currency is creativity, ideas, and innovation. For me as a writer/artist, the process of writing a book is the process of creating a work of art. Given the upheaval in the publishing industry and the cross-platform promotion of content—in a world that is becoming increasingly impermanent—I can foresee a time when the concept of [...]

A Home of One’s Own

Roland Kelts

 

Roland Kelts was one of my first Facebook friends when I finally landed on the social media grid. “Stellar website!” he emailed me, by way of introduction. Although he was writing from Japan and I from America’s heartland, I quickly discovered that we share two enduring passions: a love of Japanese [...]

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 [...]

At the Nexus of Art, Culture, and Politics

StrangeTango.com: Life as Art is the personal website/blog of A. D. Tejada, a Filipino American feminist and first generation immigrant in America’s heartland who is Ivy League-educated, has lived in 7 major American cities, and has traveled through 35 countries on 5 continents.

At the nexus of art, culture, and politics, StrangeTango.com presents an innovative vision [...]

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 [...]