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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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Global Nomad style is reminiscent of our travels around the world.
Our first meal of 2012 consists of… Lobster Cantonese made by my husband, born in Hong Kong; Pancit noodles from the cuisine of my Filipino heritage; Black-eyed peas simmered for hours with smoked pork and sauerkraut, both are traditional dishes from our [...]
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 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, [...]
I’m unveiling my new Facebook Timeline on the first day of the Winter Solstice!
The cover photo includes symbols associated with my literary novella, Strange Tango, the namesake of the first literary conceptual art installation in cyberspace — Strange Tango: Life as Art. I’ve been experimenting with ambitious and multilayered new forms of [...]
As a fellow at Harvard working with Professor Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr., I have orchestrated standing room-only events, receptions and dinners for Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur fellows and the public.
A virtuous life. Mary D. Tejada and Fe Dela Paz celebrate our mother's milestone 90th birthday (l,r).
For the milestone [...]
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 [...]
Bangkok, Thailand in Strange Tango's signature blues
Strange Tango’s 2nd birthday is coming up, and we’re planning a splashy online celebration. Before we went live, our Editor-at-Large Raphael Seligmann looked into my soul…and this is what [...]
In the summer of 2010, I entered the Anthony Bourdain Medium Raw Challenge, eventually placing #47 out of almost 2,000 essays. The contest ran for about 3 months, but I only entered a few weeks before the competition ended.
My high ranking was due to Facebook friends all over the world and across the [...]
Words have always been my métier, and my production includes literary fiction, memoirs, essays, musings, editorials, an art-house film, a documentary, television features, and television news packages. One of my greatest achievements is the personal website, StrangeTango.com: Life as Art—the first literary and conceptual art installation in cyberspace—wrapped around the concept: “What remains as documentation of a life?”
Why memoirs, the documentation of a life? Friends found it fascinating that a first generation immigrant born in the Philippines came with her family to southwest Oklahoma—one of the first Asian family pioneers to settle in Lawton/Ft. Sill: this millennium’s new, multicultural American heartland—and, despite being wholly unconventional, ended up embodying the American dream. Continue reading Life is a dance…a strange tango.
 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 inspiring artwork.” California
“Stunning. Congratulations to all of you. What beautiful images and animation. Loved the video. Warm applause for you, Audrey, on day #1 of a new online journey… Strangely fitting, somehow, that tonight coincides with the Perseids meteor shower.” Cambridge, MA
“What you have done with StrangeTango.com is truly incredible. In seeking your own purpose in life, you are assisting others in doing the same, both through your own example and, perhaps most powerfully, by creating an environment which is unprecedented Continue reading Thanks for the Accolades
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