Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

Terminator 3 Rise of the machines has 3 commentaries, bluray ed. VG info from actors, crew and esp the director who goes into lots of tech aspects.

I had never heard of her. She had an interesting life and did some nice work. nsfw https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-photographer-germaine-krull-captured-1920s-women-intimate-radical-images

Do they usually have a crew of other editors / assistants working with them? Or do they like to do most of the work themselves?

Nice job! Got a little bored with the guys playing army. The back and forth was too long for my taste. But I get bored easy, so don't go by me. What was wrong with the band shots? No need to downgrade them. Impressive titles. How long did it take to shoot?

Yes, it is better. I like the blinking eye guy! He is an attention getter, like the opening one buried in the dirt!

No, have not seen the Kodak chronology before...Thanks! Kodak came out with Sonochrome in 1921? I thought it was later. 1921 Cine-Positive tinted stocks available in: lavender, red, green, blue, pink, light amber, yellow, orange and dark amber. Wiki says 1928 if they are talking about the same films. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonochrome I see lots of tinted stock in my cine' film archive. But most of it is amber colored. I'd love to see from purple and greens. I wrote to the lady that wiki sourced the Sonochrome info from (Barbara Flueckiger). I inquired about some tinted DuPont stock I had acquired. But she never wrote back. https://filmcolors.org/timeline-entry/1330/#/

Opening photos don't work well for me. Maybe it is my slow rustbelt internet. I keep scrolling and they just blank out as I scroll down. If I wait a long time they load but they still blank out as I scroll. I much prefer little window views you can see all at once and click on a photo to enlarge. But that is just me. Your reel worked fine and is impressive. Some nice lighting and photography! Only thing I didn't like was the lady with burnt out face near 1.11, but not a big deal. Maybe it goes with the storyline. But she is pretty burnt out. Also good you can download your reel. Makes it easy for potential clients. That is what I did to study your reel some more. The internet take a while to load video. I prefer to watch downloaded video for instant access. PDF of resume loaded fast, compact and to the point. Maybe make contact info a little cleaner design at top, maybe in bold. Also try some color. Make the titles of films in red to stand out. But really, it is good as is even if you don't change a thing. Just trying to throw out some options to look at and possibly try. Good luck!

Don't know if it is all right or not, but looks good Brian! Always put your name on your work. I downloaded a PDF of it and it had no author. The file just said: kodak motion stocks history - Sheet1 If you are not making $ on the project you should at least get credit for it Brian unless you don't want to be associated with it.

I used to go to the movies 3 - 5 times a year, but only to see the big movies on the big screen. Like 1917 or Star Wars. Last Star Wars was disappointing, so swore off seeing any more of that series except on free DVD from the library. It would be sad to see movie theaters die off, but if the virus does not go away lotsa things will be changed beside the movies. I'm old and got bad lungs, so flying will be out for me in a post pandemic world. That takes Japan off my list of planned shoots. Even traveling by cruise ship is out. Ship or plane, both are good virus incubators. As of now I just go outside of the house 2 times a week to pick up mail and food. Looks like the only way I can travel is by car or RV. Used to like drive-ins when I was a kid. Don't know if I would nowadays. I'd rather watch on TV. Drive-in picture quality is poor. But when I think of drive-is, I always think of the train photographer O. Winston Link. https://www.google.com/search?q=o+winston+link+drive+in+photo&sxsrf=ALeKk01l3zJP59VHt9Fibj4N-MlPdQuNtA:1588862282284&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFwbqf_aHpAhVUWs0KHYecD2YQ_AUoAXoECBcQAw&biw=800&bih=573

I have been trying to clean out my numerous email accounts. The more junk that piles up in the accounts, the slower they seem to run. Beside constant requests to donate $$, I am bombarded with the newest and greatest tech to buy or learn. I liked the simplicity of the old days where you had a few films to choose from, you could use the same camera for decades and could just concentrate on the shooting. I can't even read a fraction about all this tech let alone apply it even if I could afford any of it.

I'm wondering how long the landlords can prop things up. And then there is all the months in arrears to make up. Pretty much everyone I've worked with is shut down or if reopening on a small scale is not in a good mood.

Phil, don't know. I don't get into all that tech stuff. I just want to be an end user of the tech. But if you can get the article, scan it and put on the Internet Archive or someplace online, then we can read it.

My VHS Archive is looking for suggestions of obscure VHS tapes to acquire that did not make it to DVD and you think should be archived. Thanks

Newspapers didn't care if the photo lasted long. They just needed it for a few insertions into the paper. A lot of them are in bad shape due to poor processing. Here is an example of a restoration of a wire photo of Pres. Ford pardoning former Pres. Richard Nixon. It is easy to just turn into BW, but I try to keep any color components intact as well. https://daniel-d-teoli-jr-archival-collection-ii.home.blog/2020/05/06/before-and-after-press-photo-restoration/

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/israel-film-archive-is-going-digital-and-releasing-its-collection-online-626008 “To restore films is to touch history,” said Meir Russo, the manager of the Israel Film Archive (IFA), which is located in, and is part of, the Jerusalem Cinematheque. “And digitizing our collection and making these films widely available have always been our dreams and our goals.” After years of intensive work on digitizing its collection of Israeli film clips, the archive is posting many of its gems online and plans to make more available, with the goal of eventually digitizing everything in its vast collection, more than 5,000 hours of film.

A film production crew is kinda like a family. In this post pandemic world you may have to be sequestered as a film family for the duration of the production and not have any contact with the outside world. Everyone allowed into the film family will have to be checked out for the corrosive virus before hired then put in a lock down community with the crew. If you are not in lock down, then you can bring the virus into the family at any time. Don't know how practical it is, but if you want to do your art, then you may have to suck it up and accept it. The stores and restaurants in some cities are already checking for temps before allowing entry. It may be the new normal.

Well, some of that makes sense Phil. If we are out of our depth, best to not make things worse and hold up a project. But did you apologize for you failings or just 'flake' out? Personally I don't think I've ever got an apology from a flake. When doing a project called 'A day in the life of a drag queen' I interviewed 22 applicants for the project via Craig's List. Over a 6 week period I hired all 22 of them for a paying gig of $400 for +/- 6 hours of shooting. 21 of those that applied flaked out, they never came through with the shoot. Only 1 person came through and it was just barely. To update things... Last week I heard back from my Argentinean artist after many months hiatus. I told him about my other lady artist in Poland I've been working with. I told him I can't just dump her and go back to him exclusively since that would be unfair to her as she has produced a lot of projects for me. But I told him some of her art is too girly for me and I would consider giving him commissions in the future that need more of a males hand at the art. I told him all he would have had to do was keep in touch with me and let me know what was happening and I could have probably held up the jobs for him. But lack of communication on his part cost him and it cost me. I had to waste my time interviewing tons of flakey artists to find a good one.

Well, we all have our likes and dislikes of areas we want to work in. If a nice sunset, interesting architectural building or pretty flower thumbs its nose at me I may shoot it, but that is not the focus of my work. I am not a hired gun that has to work on material they don't like for $$. I generally only work on material that interests me in some way. Although this is not true 100% of the time, as supporting material that holds little interest to me may be important to include in a project. I'm an underground social documentary photographer, underground archivist, underground experimental filmmaker and deal with underground comix art. NSFW is a big part of my work, but it is not the only part. I also have political comix, but politics are frowned on here. And my audio archive does not have much NSFW material in it.

Uli, you remind me of a guy I read about on a photo forum. As an artist you have to dream and try things or you are sunk. Art is all about dreaming of impossible things. If I had your midset I would have quit before I started. Here is an old post I wrote many years ago on this subject about the guy from the photo forum that gave up before he even tried. nsfw https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/dont-quit-before-you-even-start-work-blind/

You have to file your taxes to get the $1200. But I concur with the loopholes. But that is peanuts. How are the guys with a $2k apartment that have been out of work for 2 months going to get by with $1200?

Just found an old DVD I bought off eBay a couple years ago. It got lost in the clutter. It had a nice little clip of Pacific Ocean Park on it in Santa Monica aka POP (pronounced as 'pee-oh-pee' by the locals.) I extracted it here: https://archive.org/details/pacific-ocean-park-pop-1959 POP was destroyed back in the last century, but I still remember it growing up in L.A.. There is another nice clip on POP in the 'Route 66' series. I will have to try and dig it up someday. (Maybe season 2?) I got it from the library. Watched the whole series. By the time I was done I was getting burnt out. Back then they produced a tremendous amount of weekly shows in a series. Not like they do today. We are weenies compared to what they produced for a TV season back then. Plus nowadays they take at least double the time for commercial breaks me thinks. Funny, back in the early 60's they were talking on one of the Route 66 shows about illegal aliens!

Here is one from yesterday's office... Press wire photo of May Day parade in Moscow, USSR 1969 https://archive.org/search.php?query=May Day Moscow%2C Russia 1969 teoli

Today is May Day. While it's celebration value in the USA is long gone, I like to remember it every year and upload a few photos from my archive of May Day fetes, maypoles, etc to the I.A.. Here are a couple of RPPC's I just scanned and sent in. https://archive.org/search.php?query=May Day Fete Wreath Dance https://archive.org/search.php?query=Maypole In Parade So. Bend IN 1915 I was reading about May Day celebrations at Bryn Mawr women's college. https://www.blight.com/~scarlett/traditions/maypics.html Now the photos at that site are crappy to start with, but I'm not going to chew people out for being bad photogs. But at least put up some hi res photos of your crap. Why is it people archive history with shitty res photos or video? Someday that may be all that is left for the historical record. I saved one of the photos at the site and it was 18kb. It was useless, so trashed it and gave up on the site.

Recently been doing lots of color grading tests on vintage films. I'm working in a new direction of strong temperature / hue and low saturation. Never thought about that before. I usually would be on the plus side of sat, like 110% - 125%. Now I'm in the 10% - 20% area of sat. Over the hump with still photo acquisitions for my Sodbusters film. Maybe 60% done. Very slow process reviewing 1200+ photos and downloading 1 by 1. Then have to clean them up and PP.

While you are 100% right with the morals Phil , many artists have to fake it until they make it. If an artist / bohemian has to cheat a little to a get a gig so they can afford a true 4K, then that is how some of them roll. They have an old saying...first you get rich...then you get holy. But in most of our cases, we never get rich. Personally I try to mention when things are upscaled.