Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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.

They may start using computers to make shows. Everything virtual and virus free.

I used to go there when I was a kid. It had burnt down after years of sitting idle and decay. It is all but forgotten now. I was watching the film Los Angeles Plays Itself (Not the 1972 gay porn film by the title of L.A. Plays Itself.) They had a little clip on the Pan Pacific Auditorium in the film and the film Xanadu. Also a nice clip on how Bunker Hill was before the massive redevelopment. The film inspired me to work on some of the L.O.C's photos of the Pan Pacific to donate to the I.A. https://archive.org/details/pan-pacific-auditorium-l.-a.-d.-d.-teoli-jr.-a.-c.-2

A while back I met a guy on eBay that had a noteworthy background in film. He said he was old and getting rid of his collection he had amassed over the past 70 years. I had solicited him to record some oral history for me and possibly send me some photos to put up at the Internet Archive of which I am a volunteer thereof. I told him the same thing I am telling you here. Boom...one day you don't wakeup...and all that history is gone forever. He wrote me back some time later and said it is too late to do any of that, the stroke took care of it. Whether young or old, if you or someone else has something noteworthy to archive, get it down while you can because boom...one day you don't wakeup...and all that history is gone forever. You don't have to make a big deal over it. Here is a short oral history I made of Dick Morriale and his recollections of Nesta Kerin Crain, one of the earliest proponents of using gongs for sound therapy in the USA. I was also doing a film on Dick , then the virus broke out and we may never finish the film. https://archive.org/search.php?query=Oral History Nesta Kerin Crain The oral history I did above was a little bit of a pain to do. Dick kept going off topic, so what is shown here is actually 14 recordings edited down to 1. Maybe you will have an easier time and your subject can stay on topic. But being an ADD myself, I have no right to chew anyone out for not staying on topic. Get a simple usb digital recorder and start recording some of this stuff. You go to a presentation or lecture, you are already there, might as well record and archive it. Go home, plug in the usb recorder and upload. Could not be easier. If you need sound editing software, get free Audacity.

Make a blog on it OP with visual examples.

Now, the BBC said that when you breath out in the cold and see your breath, that is the same breath that can carry the corrosive virus a long distance. They also said in humid weather the moist breath connects with the moist humid air and falls to the ground faster as it is heavier. And that is why the flu is less a danger in the humid summers. Also I read the Italians found virus on air pollution, although they don't know if it is viable. If this is the case and there is no cure or vaccine, then we just have to keep going best we can. I'm no MD or brainiac, but from what I gather they have never found a vaccine for any of the coronaviruses over the last decade. I had read any trial cure destroyed the body. I think all these 'we will find a vaccine in 6 months or 1 year' deals are just to keep you hopeful until the truth sets in ...that we wont find a vaccine. You know, humans can't fix every problem they come up with. Better have a 'plan B' to keep things rolling. Believe me, I hope I'm wrong. I don't like living like this.

Keep productions going. Just put masks on everyone crew and actors. I've been doing lots of comix with masks on people, but mostly cell phone people with masks. Masks may be our new normal. Don't let the virus keep you down...providing you are young, healthy and can risk things. That being said, I bugged out of NYC long ago with no plans to return unless the virus goes away by some miracle. Too old and bad lungs. I'd be dead for sure. Here is a RPPC I just sent out for a mailing to museums and galleries. What I sent out had the gals shirt buttoned up. But it still is an attention getter for an RPPC. nsfw 'On the first date 4.20.2020' https://archive.org/search.php?query=On The First Date 4.20.2020 I don't have to put masks on my art, but I do lots of time. For now it is our world, so why not.

" I’ve become accustomed to a degree of caginess about pricing. Some gallerists decline to share dollar amounts or price ranges—sometimes they won’t even distribute checklists of artworks in their booths. So I was surprised to visit Art Basel in Hong Kong’s online viewing rooms, which were open from March 18th to 25th in lieu of the yearly in-person fair (canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and find specific prices or ranges listed for each of the 2,000-plus artworks on offer. Several galleries have also created new virtual platforms over the past few weeks that list prices." https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-will-online-viewing-rooms-increase-price-transparency-galleries

No, there are 82 pages. If you got slow internet you have to download to view them. It is not a pdf, they are hi-res jpeg scans of each page. And even if you are able to view the jpegs at the Archive, they do not present sequentially. Sometimes the Archive makes pdf's of my uploads. If and when they do that you can view easier. But best advice is to download the collection and make your own pdf if you like. I don't have the time to make pdf, I just upload jpegs. In 2018 I made +/- 27,000 scans, plus all my other work. I'm just a one man show, no help or $$ from anyone, no time to do it all so corners get cut. Good luck!

Crazy amount of cams for politics. The circle in red must be writers...no cams All the rest have still or video cams. I wanted to do that as a kid. Jesus, not now. No interest at all. I was walking down 5th Ave in December and they had a crew of camera people camped out across from Trump Tower trying to huddle up and stay warm. They were there constantly hoping something would happen.

I'm crazy for steam. If I had some $$ I'd like to tour around and ride the heritage rails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heritage_railroads_in_the_United_States Man it must have been something back then. Wish I could go back in time ... https://danieldteolijrarchivalcollection.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/what-would-i-shoot-if-i-didnt-shoot-social-documentary/

Hey, nothing wrong with trying as long as you can resubmit at a later date if things don't pan out. It is like planting seeds that may take some time to sprout. But if all you got is one shot, then maybe wait for better times.

I gave up on cable over a decade ago. Saved over $10K. I get my DVDs from the library. I buy ones I can't get for free, but generally I can get 90 - 95% of them unless too oddball.

I was ready to send out a mailing in March, as I normally do 5 times a year, to curators and galleries on my list. Depending on the time of year the mailing is anywhere from 85 to 135 RPPC's. I was a few days from the mailing, then the shelter in place orders hit. The museums and galleries all shut down, so I never mailed them. For the last few weeks I have put any work on promotion on the back burner and decided to work on my archive and also do a little art for fun and to relax. To help digest some of this mess I sometimes have artists do some art for me with ideas I have. But that is nothing new, throughout history artists of all stripes have used their art as a way to make sense of the world. I came up with one piece in my search for coronavirus sense and humor and it also looked like a good candidate for a mailer. It is called 'On the first date April 20, 2020' It is based on my 'cell phone series' I've been doing. Here are samples of my cell phone people I've created... nsfw https://archive.org/search.php?query=cell phone people nano D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. I can't put a copy of 'On the first date April 20, 2020' here. My kb limit is too low. But the RPPC shows a cell phone man standing and a cell phone woman sitting. They both have masks and gloves on. A USB cord comes out of the cell phone man's phone head and goes under the mask of the cell phone lady. Text reads: "That's right baby, suck the tip." I made 2 versions of it. The uncensored version has the cell phone lady's shirt unbuttoned with the boobies out. The censored version that I will be mailing has the lady's shirt buttoned, no boobies. Trying to find out what can and cannot be mailed is tough. The Postmaster General never answers my questions. But from what I gather they don't investigate unless the recipient complains. I have mailed RPPC's with exposed boobies before, but they had body paint on them, were infrared flash and black and white, so the boobies were not in your face. https://archive.org/details/SadBuskersTimesSquareNyc So that is as far as I have pushed nudity with an RPPC. For more explicit mailings I use an envelope for the RPPC. About 65% - 70% of the people I mail to are women curators. Women run the art world nowadays, at least in my area of work. I gave a little thought about if 'On the first date April 20, 2020' would offend the gals. But since the art world already sunbs me like a homeless man with coronavirus offering them a sack of poop...I don't worry much about offending them anymore. I just work blind and do my work without expectations and many worries. But, when I first started with museum placements a decade ago I was more worried. Now I just work honest, natural and let the chips fall where they may. If you can't be honest to your art, what have you got? Well, that is one recent project I'm doing. I go into more detail about using RPPC for direct mail at the link below if you are interested in trying it. People seem to like post cards and tend to hang on to them. At least that is how it used to be. But no telling with the current crop of people that like 'experiences over stuff.' But who knows, maybe if people can't pack planes like sushi any more they will find joys in having a little 'stuff' around and hang on to my cards. https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/do-you-think-printed-promos-are-effective-for-marketing-your-work/ After things get back to whatever the new normal is I will go back to my photo related mailings and send out some DVD's of films I'm working on. What have you doing to keep your name out there?

Thanks

Yes, that is it. Maybe 3 inch diam. But I have a company modifying their 3/8 model for me. If they don't come through then open to other options.

You imply I should not accept the budget I have to work with. A dedicated artist finds a way to get the job done, if it can be done, irrespective of critics and low $$ Uli. That is why I run ads, I let the person, that is willing to do the job, contact me. I let them look over the work and see if it fits their needs. Here is a piece I wrote a while back called: 'Is it easier for the rich photog?' Gives you a rundown on how $$ can and cannot help a creative. If $$ was the only deciding factor, then only the richest creatives would create the best work. But we all know $$ only goes so far Uli. nsfw https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/is-it-easier-for-the-rich-photog/

Thanks Phil for the feedback. What broke the back of my Argentinian artist was a 5 panel job for $65 I gave him. Usually he did single panel jobs with little issues. Most of my jobs would not make a material difference in a person time schedule since they are quick and simple. But he did write me a month later saying he got a 'real' internet art job in Europe and was having trouble getting my art done. Here is the Argentinian's piece I commissioned to honor Spike Lee's 30th anniversary of Do The Right Thing. It may have been $45 - $55...can't remember. https://archive.org/search.php?query=do the right thing teoli Of course, some people will say my piece is no honor. To them I say...you don't like my art...go pay for your own goddamn art! Anyway, love comix art. If I was rich or even slightly well off you should see what I could produce. I owe it all to Crumb. Plus he was a major influence in my archival work. Crumb is an outstanding archivist in his own right. Crumb is the godfather of it all.

An interesting project I'd like to undertake someday is to give artists the same instructions and see what they produce. I've done it in small ways with their initial test jobs. And really, it does not take that much $$ to do it. But I don't have excess $$ to devote to 'fun' things like that. It is either do fun tests or do the actual art projects. We sometimes see the same thing with photogs that shoot the same subject in a shootout. And of course movie remakes. But movie remakes are not really comparable since tech and time changes things so much. For recent test jobs I had the artists work on my Greta Thunberg 'How Dare You' series. (Sorry, can't post em here due to content and politics.) One male artist was given a script of Greta by candlelight...but he flaked out on his first test job. Why do they waste my time? Everything needed is given up front. No mystery. Why accept the job if you know you are a flake? Maybe that is the issue...flakes don't know they are flakes. Next month when I get more $ I will give the 'Greta by candlelight' job to someone else.

Now Uli, what you and Max propose is that no one that works for a low fee is reliable or does good work. Sure, Crumb is fantastic! No debate there. But you have to accept your budget and work within it. And even so, how many times do we hear about flaky and rich actors and artists? Other option is not to do anything unless rich. In my case, my lifetime 51 year body of work would have never happened if I had to wait to get rich before I did anything. nsfw https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/its-the-birthday-of-american-cartoonist-r-crumb/ Most of what I commission is underground comix. When I mention Crumb I am not comparing his technique to what I commission. My comparison is with the subject matter. Crumb is the godfather of underground comix. nsfw https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/08/28/when-history-must-distill-what-defines-underground-comix-into-the-creative-genius-that-is-the-alpha-and-the-omega-of-underground-comix-there-can-be-no-argument-dispute-or-question-that-name-is-cr/ And even though my art is produced on a low budget, it is decent work. Especially when you consider the price.

The Argentinian artist used to write me every few weeks looking for work. I get lot of comix ideas, but don't get ideas as fast as he wanted to work. I used to ask him, you got any ideas? Tell me and I'll pay you to do it if I like it. For over a year we worked together and he never had 1 idea. When I would look at his portfolio nothing impressed me. Yes, it was decent art, but boring material as far as I was concerned. Some artists may have talent, but may be lacking in creative abilities. Same way as I have some talent for creative ideas but lack the technical skills. One thing I've noticed about artists, and I learned this in the early 70's when I used to sneak into the old Art Center School in L.A. to sit in on some of the classes. The natural genius always surpassed the ones that tried to buy their abilities. Almost all of the natural genius's work were masterpieces when it came time for the weekly critique. Whereas the non-genius would sometimes produce something great, but you could not bank on it...their work was more of a crapshoot. The genius works natural and relaxed whereas non-genius has to work hard and force their work. I see this in my own photo / cine' work. My still work is relaxed and easy...it is as easy as breathing. My cine' work is not natural, it is hard, takes concentration and full of fear of failure. Most of the time when I take on a still related project there is no doubt it will be good. I know my still abilities in the areas I work in. I can't say the same about my cine' work. That sums up the difference between the 2 genres....relaxed and natural vs forced and unnatural.