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I'm a conceptual artist. I get art ideas that pop up in my head, but I need to work with a concept artist to make those ideas be translated into visibility. In other words, I have no technical art skills of my own...I just have ideas. I posted before on the question of 'is this art.' Art can be divided up into 2 areas. You can have technical skills or creativity skills and if lucky you have both. Plain and simple, if judgements have to be made, and the outcome is uncertain, there is art in the process. I used photography as an example in the other discussion. If there was no art in the process, one photo would be as good as the next. It is the same with bread baking as photography. One loaf of bread would be as good as the next, and on and on with other areas of questioning art. I can't show you most of my conceptual art portfolio. Too graphic, too sexual, too political. Here is something that is milder in nature. It marked my leaving of working in NYC. Covid had just hit and I was out of NYC in January of 2020. The artist uses their art to make sense of the world. It does not matter what the area of art is, it helps them deal with life. I was already working on the Cell Phone People Series, so I made a few panels in the series trying to make sense of covid. It is called 'First Date During Covid.' This one is censored. (I had 2 panels done of this, censored and uncensored.) I had mailed this censored version in the form of a RPPC's to curators and gallerists around America I had contact with to mark my leaving NYC and to thumb my nose at covid. 'First Date During Covid.' 2020 Teoli / Dagger I've worked with artists for decades with bringing inner visions to life. I learned early on, before things get too far with the job; I want to see a rough sketch to see if we are on the same page. Sometimes the art works out fine, other time it does not. I'm not rich and the jobs are generally in the $20 - $30 area. So, I don't want to squeeze the artist too much for little money jobs. Generally, the artist is a digital nomad type of person working overseas. Either they get it or not. If they can't get it to work in an edit or three, then I just pay them and move on to the next idea. I basically give them a script and let them go! One artist remarked, "So much freedom" in doing work for me. A lot of the artist end up doing work in an assembly line kind of thing. One artist may outline the drawings; another artist may ink it up with color, another does the text and so forth and so on. I seldom give them drudgery copy work. I give them the script and it us all up to them to work out the details. Once in a while I give them a copy job that is drudgery. But it is very seldom. If rich it would be interesting to give the same job / script to a bunch of artists and see what they come up with. A person could run a monthly contest and give out $ for awards for such art contests on the Deviant Art forum. But someone would have to run it. Even if I had excess $$, I don't have the time. I just want to see the outcome of creativity and technique. And the subject matter may be in question on such contests when it comes to art of my liking. I'm of the 'old school' Robert Crumb comix era and like that type of art. But it is very pricey trying to have art done in the pen and ink style like Crumb did. Simplified panels of digital art work best for a low budget. Whatever the reason, whether seeing or producing...humans like art! Workup sketch to 'First Date During Covid.' 2020 Teoli / Dagger <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography

Juggalos charging up in the dark - IR flash / Candid This was shot about 10 or 11 years ago at a Juggalo concert. IR flash in the dark. It was hard shot to do. IR flash has a fast drop-off. I had converted a Sony camera to IR. It had a great shutter, a silent one. But it had one issue. The flash didn't work with the silent shutter. Flash was disabled in silent mode. Too bad. That would have made the ultimate stealth street camera with the silent shutter and invisible IR flash. Maybe they have changed the camera/s in 2025, don't know. Maybe they have a silent shutter with flash enabled. I don't keep up with the camera gear any longer. I'm retired from photography about 95% and only work with archival material more or less now. I can't pound the pavement like I used to due to health issues. Well, I study up Phase One gear for copy stands and such. If I hit the lotto will buy one or two of them for a few hundred thousand $. But need 2 or 3 cine' scanners first. Well camera companies don't think along these lines like I do. Makes sense to disable the flash if you go silent. But I was on my own wavelength back then. Took almost 5 years to perfect IR flash. I could have given up anywhere along the way. I just kept throwing $ at it. Oh...I still do lots of keyboard photography. Hundreds of thousands of screen shots made with a screen recorder. I still have maybe 40K - 60K of old photos I took to go through, someday. Never got round to them. Archival material takes all my time. <><><><> Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Archival Collection Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Small Gauge Film Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Advertising Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. VHS Video Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Popular Culture Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Audio Archive Daniel D. Teoli Jr. Social Documentary Photography