Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

I've been archiving eBay for some years. The eBay Archive contains over 30,000 screenshots and photos in it. My latest project was massive and archived the Adult Only Section before eBay shut it down on June 15, 2021. I spent 3-1/2 months on it gathering archival material then organizing it. I asked Reddit's 'Data Hoarders' if they would do it, but they removed the thread as soon as it was posted. So I was stuck doing it myself. I like to archive eBay in small chunks of a dozen or a hundred screenshots, not tens of thousands. One area I like to collect in is crazy & weird listings. You never know what the eBayer's will come up with. Odd shaped Cheeto's and potato chips are favorites, but just no telling what they will list. Surprise boxes of who knows what are another staple there. Do you think they glued this one together? Or did they cut / form these shapes? I wonder if they ever sell any of these? Here is some of the eBay oddball collection if they interest you further. eBay Crazy & Weird Auctions D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : D. D. Teoli Jr. A. C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

How was the Quad tape compared to state of the art VHS? quad video tape - Google Search What type of tape is used now for TV production?

The amateurs' used these type of title makers. How did the old time Hollywood productions make their titles? Letters were made out of plaster and had pins embedded in the back. They came with a backer board for holding the title design. They came with a wooden rule to keep the design straight. They even made pocket size titlers. All the letters and numbers revolved on a wheel. Photos: eBay Used under auspices of Fair Use.

That was a photogs question on a Reddit Photography thread. Here is my take on it... OP...maybe a little. Genius is something you are born with, generally speaking. Although sometimes a thing clicks in the mind and you are ready to go. That is what happened to me after working on infrared flash for 4+ years. Something clicked. But I could have easily given up after 4 years of failure. The genius produces outstanding work with little or no effort, whereas the non-genius may struggle to produce something mediocre. If we could all be geniuses at what we aspire to be going to class or cracking a book open...we would. In the 70's I had a friend that went to Art Center College in L.A. He studied photography. I used to go to class sometimes with him to sit in on classes. I could not afford to go there, so that was as close as I got to Art Center. Anyway, I noticed in the critique sessions for weekly assignments the same students would produce more or less outstanding photos on each assignment. Some would produce OK photos and maybe a great one once in a while and some would produce low end stuff as their general output. Later on with my work as an Art Director I noticed this with artists I would hire or do portfolio reviews on. Some had good technical abilities, but poor creativity. Others had creativity but poor technique. Others had both technique and creativity, but were flakes. Back in the 80's I met a gal in her 40's that retired from business and wanted to be an artist. She was well off selling her business for millions and lived in a mini-mansion in San Marino, CA. She said she had taken some art classes and showed me her portfolio. The draftsmanship was poor and creativity was poor. And her prices to do jobs were very high. Her background as a successful business owner tainted her realistic conception of what is paid for art jobs. Her work smacked of someone with little art talent that struggled to put it down on paper or canvas. It wasn't in her, she had little talent and classes did not do much for her apparently. Now someone with natural talent bangs it out with little or no effort whereas she struggled just to produce sub-par work. In my own case I tried to learn some creativity with book cover design. I produce lots of artist's books. Designing the cover has always been hard for me. I am not a creative person in that area. I bought a number of books on cover design. I studied and studied them over and over again. The best I could do with my creativity for cover design would be to try and copy off of covers I liked in the book. It wasn't in me. When I first started with photography in 1969 / 1970 I wanted to be a fashion / studio photographer. After a few years it sunk in I had no talent for that type of work. Eventually I found what I do have talent in and work in that area. We all have different abilities, so why not make the most of the talents you got? Sure, study all you like but if it is not you, don't waste your life on trying to be something you can't naturally be great at. Do what you are great at. Selection from Weekly World News Front Page Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection

Cleaning film has always been a pain in the ass. Hate it. Are cleaning machines an affordable option for the small operator or are they high priced? What type of film cleaning machines do commercial scanning companies use? How good are cleaning machines compared to hand cleaning?

I've always been interested in what people buy. Found shopping lists is part of the collection scope of my Archive. Sometimes the people have work plans and sketches on the lists and are really detailed. Some have budgets and notes. I feel bad for some of the more detailed note projects and how they lost their plans. Probably some would be shocked to see their trash on the internet. A gal wrote me the other day to ask about volunteering to work in the Archive. She was an art student at art college and sounded very enthusiastic. It was not practical for her to do physical work as she was out of state. But I was going to ask her is she wanted to be a 'curator at large' for me. Beside contributing found digital archival material to my Archive, she could have been on the lookout for found shopping lists to add to the collection. But, being how things are in 2021...no reply from her.

Can't say about hoarder. To the normal person, yes, that is what it looks like. To film collectors it is the norm more or less unless they got tons of $$ and have climate controlled film vaults and film archivists to keep things tidy. Some are more organized than others. But big film collections are a mess many a time. This is a pretty neat collection. But it is small. A more sprawling bigger collection with 35mm reels. All photos from internet and used under auspices of Fair Use.

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RPPC Circus clowns - early 20th century I seldom mark up my own photography. When I first made the transition from film to digital around 2010, I did. But I outgrew it after a few months. My photography is pretty unique, especially my specialties of infrared flash photography and circular fisheye street photography. It would be easy for someone to find the author of my photos with a simple Google image search, so I'm not that concerned. Maybe if I was looking for business I would mark it up. But any on the branding I put on the photos is not to discourage use, it is just for a notice of origination. Photogs would watermark stuff way back in the day, so it is nothing new. Solomon D. Butcher marked up a lot of his glass plates, and that was back in the 1800's. The photographers to the entertainers also marked photos up heavily. Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection / Ruth Wallace Collection Ruth was famous for singing The Dingy song. Now with my archival work I started to heavily watermark or as I prefer to say 'brand' it starting about 2019 / 2020. In 2019 Tumblr deleted all 48 of my websites or blogs or whatever you call them. It took over 4 years to make all those Tumblr's. In 2020, the Internet Archive deleted my entire account which was composed of 6 years work and 70,000 - 120,000 uploads. (I never counted them.) Prior to 2019, LinkedIn banned me and I lost a couple thousand contacts and thousands of posts. So after that I was in a bad mood. At one time I had the largest online presence of any still photographer in the world. It occurred to me if WordPress canned my ass I would go from a still photographer having the largest online content to one with a nil content...and no one would even have known my Archive had existed. So after that I said, **(obscenity removed)** it, I will start branding my material to at least make it known there once was an Archive by that name. And beside that, branding it advertises my free open content Archive to those that may need the material. That is one of the reasons for giving citations when you use material from another person or institutions. So people can find the source if they need to. But citations or not, I liked the pre-watermark days better. It was less work. I give away for free some very $$ items. Take this RPPC. It cost me $85 to donate Violetta to the I.A. This was pre-branding days, so I'm not going back to mark it. There is never any thanks for the work. Now, I'm not in it for the thanks, but you'd figure the people that run these sites that ban me would take a look at the offending item and 'cancel it' instead of 'canceling all' of the collection. But nope, that is how it is in 2021. One thing about watermarks. Be classy about it. A simple and small or decorative watermark does the job.

Jens Haaning, Take the Money And Run (2021) (Courtesy the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art) Artist Jens Haaning claimed that the stunt was in reaction to the low fees offered to him by the museum. Full story... https://hyperallergic.com/680326/jens-haaning-runs-away-with-museums-cash-and-calls-it-art

An interesting clip from 'Playboy's Parties Behind the Scenes' VHS tape. Nude girls get lingerie airbrushed and painted on them by makeup artists as they get ready for the big party. The late Hugh Hefner make an appearance near the end of the clip to inspect the work. NSFW Playboy Parties Behind The Scenes Body Makeup VHS Clip : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

You got any reels OP? Still photos are one thing and moving pictures are another. ...and vice versa. Do you have any ideas for films you want to make or do you just want to be a hired gun?

That is great! Keep us informed how the project goes. I was working on a film about an old yodeler / DJ / audio archivist. Could only work with him 2 or 3 times a month for a few hours at a time. I started to get some footage, then virus hit. Tried to restart with him 1-1/2 years later and by then his mind was shot and it was too late. Sometimes we just don't get a 2nd chance. To update the OP. I didn't take the photo. It was from his eBay listing and used under auspices of Fair Use.

Yesterday's office... Irving Klaw, pinup king in the 1950s and 60s.

This is the late film collector Dennis R. Atkinson. Over the past couple of years I would buy films from him on eBay, the ones I could afford anyway. He had lots of rare things as well as a tremendous amount of film history in his brain. I used to write him periodically to ask him to write down some of that history so I could archive it. Or for him to let me interview him via phone for some oral history recordings. It was always the same answer NO. I told him I'd be glad to buy some history or ephemera from him to donate to the I.A., even scans...same thing...NO. Well, he died a few months ago and all that film history died with him. If you know someone that has some history within them that needs preserving, keep after them and try to get what you can. Then put it on the I.A. or make a film about them.

I don't think employers care about overwork because there is a endless supply of grunts always coming up to replace the overworked. Now maybe the big names have some pull with their working conditions, but everyone else it is either do or die. That is how it is in many non film jobs. For instance. When I was a kid we had 3 trashmen. 1 to drive the truck and 2 to load. Then we had 2 trashmen. 1 to drive and 1 to load. Now we got 1 trashman he drives and he gets out to load. I talked with a therapist. She told me the company she works for won't give her much for a raise as she already makes their top end limits. She said they try to find things to fire people making top end $$ and they can hire kids out of school for a lot cheaper. They can hire 2 kids for almost the same price as 1 long time worker making maximum salary. And they only hire for 32 hours a week so and call it part time, so no benefits. That is just how it is nowadays. Lots of people to fill jobs and they don't have much pull unless very specialized and in high demand. Still photographer Bruce Mc Broom & Peter Sellers on the set of Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Photographer: Unknown

Master Deakins on the set for the first time.

I posted this same thread to a photo forum. Someone chimed in and sent in a photo of a 2 wheel handcart. It is for moving heavy boxes with. I guess he missed the mark on what this thread was about. The cart is not for moving heavy things, it is for 'buying square inches' for temp work.

I wrote to this gal Mireya Salinas, sending her a RPPC of her doing work at George Eastman House from a George Eastman photo. On the card I asked her what sort of camera she was using on her copy stand. Never got a reply...but is that a surprise in 2021? Do you have any idea if it is a camera? And if so what is it? In the old days, fountain pens and stationary were big deals. In WW2 you had to have a permit to buy or rent a typewriter. Rationing was the problem. Carbon paper was also big back then, along with onionskin paper if you needed copies of your correspondence. No copy machines. Carbon copy on onionskin paper Selection from WW2 Rationing Archive GD, nowadays people can't be bothered with a simple 'F off' email. Just terrible. Someone I complained to told me maybe she thinks I'm a stalker!

I have a lot of areas I work in….photography – audio – video – cine’ film – print archive. And within these areas there are hundreds of sub-areas I work in. I could never get much of this work done if I didn’t multitask. Now, I don’t like to multitask, but it is what it proverbially is. I got no help, so it is either I multitask and get more done or I don’t multitask and get very little done. But depending on the work I’m doing, I have to be careful with distractions, even momentary ones. Full story... The Joys of Multitasking – Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection – II (home.blog)

And what about smaller 16mm productions? How good is the quality of the video produced?

OK, thanks. I found another tape with the exact same issue, but it was throughout the tape. It was a 'free vhs tape given from an Adam and Eve adult products sales promotion. It was a 30 minute tape of rehashed adult material. So sounds about right...nobody cared about it.

Very creative work...really beautiful! Looked at it a few times. Only thing that hit me rough was the opening shot going into the TV. I thought it would have come across better if it zoomed in closer to the TV screen before making the transition. But it was still OK as-is. And really these type of nitpicks need to be compared real time. Maybe a closer edit might not look as good. Just have to see it. Send in some more of your work!

Standing Wolf, from another forum where I posted this thread added this reply... Popeye did appear in a Betty Boop cartoon in 1933, and that WAS his first animated film debut, but he'd been the star of the funny papers' 'Thimble Theatre' since 1929.

Thanks Simon, that really dials the date in.