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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
THE MATRIX: click on any of the 100 categories in the cloud.
DETAILS: click on Home to display illustrated post summaries.
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

Community

Some of our friends who have appeared on Strange Tango: Life as Art…and who will in 2012.

This is a special time for reflecting on the past and anticipating the future. And so it is with Strange Tango: Life as Art. Since August 2009 when we launched this labor of love, the website/blog [...]

Artist as Seer…

An early ambition was that I might enter politics or academia, or become a diplomat/lawyer/corporate executive with an international career. But my perspective has always been one of multiplicity: it felt more natural to me to see the interrelatedness of humanity than to become an expert specializing in a fragment of the universe. [...]

Louise Gansky Bendel: A Christmas Letter

Louise Gansky Bendel is one of my oldest friends, ever since we were student activists at Cornell. The role we were thrust into was quite surprising, considering we both are straight arrow, Catholic girls who have generally exerted leadership through subtle example. Now a mother with a family of her own, [...]

Owen Shieh: Untamed Skies

In 2011, weather was an international news story. From the devastating tsunami in Japan to the flooding across the United States, meteorologists played an important role in mitigating the loss of life and property and in helping the public to understand the causes of these cataclysmic events.

So when my friend Owen Shieh, a [...]

Mai Xuan Bui: A Melting Pot of Thoughts

Pho for Life: A Melting Pot of Thoughts book launch is today – December 3, 2011!

I vowed I would never cut my waist-length hair until I was a published book author. Now, I am half-way to checking this long-standing wish off my bucket list. My essay, Heartland, is included in [...]

Steve Jobs: at the Nexus of Art, Culture, and Technology

Steve Jobs, in memoriam.

 

When Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple CEO in August, I sensed he felt the end was near. Soon after, a photo circulated on the internet of an emaciated Jobs looking almost unrecognizable from the familiar image of his later years―the iconic portrait reminiscent of a modern-day Mahatma [...]

Marc Andrew Hem Lee: A Disputation – Blog Vs. Tweet

As a student trustee at Cornell University, one of my special interests was a performing arts center capital development project. I worked with a development officer to bring the need for teaching and performance space to the attention of the senior class gift committee, and I lobbied during meetings for the senior class gift [...]

The News at the End of the World

Anton Blake is an actor, director and screenwriter based in London. Both artist and activist, Anton lives by Margaret Mead’s ethos, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Anton Blake

A [...]

A. D. Tejada, Founder

 

My husband, Joseph Yu, made this business card for me!

Joseph is a National Merit Semi-Finalist from Brookline High School in Massachusetts who studied in the undergraduate professional architecture program at Cornell before spending his entire career at Lotus Development / IBM in Cambridge. He also designed, remodeled and renovated the real [...]

Silence is Music

There are different kinds of music. Silence is music.

(Just attend a John Cage concert.)

Any orchestration of sounds and non-sounds is, by definition, music. We all just prefer different types of sounds because the vibrations affect our moods, and our moods―our momentary cauldron of emotions―generate our thoughts.

So, when I want to engage [...]