Strange Tango: Life as Art

Life is a dance, a strange tango. Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world. Strange Tango was conceived as the first literary and conceptual art installation in cyberspace.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• art
• culture
• video
• literary
• film
• visual
• photography
• nonlinear
• narrative
• experimental
• dream
• spiritual
• quest
• blog
• website

[ADTejada1]

Thanks for the likes...haters not welcome here. The video is the collaboration of a Pulitzer Prize finalist, an Emmy Award-winning arts and culture tv producer, a filmmaker who worked on the blockbuster "Batman Begins," an electronic composer / musician who worked on Grammy, Emmy-nominated and HBO projects, a first wave multimedia artist, a Ph.D. in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, a tech guru from the Harvard Business School, and a networked literary stylist / post-modern aesthete.

[jdrubio]

AD, I love the images of the various locations you have visited around the world...they are stunning! Good luck with the Guggenheim Museum project!!! We'll be cheering you on:) Best, Mari

[ADTejada1]

@jdrubio Thank you for your enduring support, dear Mari. I appreciate your sharing the link with all your family and friends. We are 1/4 of the way to our goal of 1,000 views as we approach the first birthday of the Strange Tango website/blog. ♥ ~A.

[ADTejada1]

The Strange Tango video has been submitted in the Guggenheim Museum project, "YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video." Best viewed full screen...more at the Strange Tango personal website. Share. ~A.

[ADTejada1]

Please view Strange Tango's visual poetry on a full screen by clicking on the bottom right corner of the video. You can also share on Facebook or email the link to your friends. ~A.

[sstrasser1]

I might like it if I could read it. You need a readable font.

[ADTejada1]

@sstrasser1 The video is meant to be viewed full-screen...this font worked best with the aesthetics and mood of the visual poetry. ~A.

[ADTejada1]

@hongcha300000 Yes, I photographed the images all over the world...including Bangkok and Hong Kong. As a literary stylist/conceptual artist, I wanted Strange Tango to be a sensory experience and a meditation on what is ethereal, edgy, and eternal. There's more on the Strange Tango website. ~A.

[hongcha300000]

Nice production and beautiful photographs. Were some of the shots of Bangkok? I thought I recognized a view. I was sent there three times from Korea to cover this or that. I miss the edginess of Seoul. I got a moody yet melancholy vibe from this video. Federico Garcia Lorca said in life comedy is known by those who think and tragedy by those who feel. Maybe you feel? Just a wild guess.

[ADTejada1]

Please share. The Strange Tango video has been submitted in the Guggenheim Museum project, "YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video." More at the Strange Tango personal website: Video. Blog. Book. ~A.