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I wanted to do this project, but never got round to it. A helicopter or high-res drone video mapping and still photo survey of Skid Row in L.A. I had heard Trump wants to make homelessness illegal. I don't know if that is even possible or how it would affect Skid Row. But irrespective of that, Skid Row would make an interesting project to document aerially. In the shadow of City Hall L.A, CA 2015 D.D. Teoli Jr. I haven't been back to L.A. in ages once I moved on to work in NYC. This was taken Skid Row adjacent so to speak. I was on the way to the airport early AM and shot it through the front widow of my rental car with a Fuji 16MP crop camera the last time I was there in 2015. (+ 45 minutes of post work in Lightroom.) The reason it is super scope ratio is because I had to cut out all the car above and below the image shown. The hallmark of the good documentary photographer is they get the goods no matter what. (Well, at least best they can.) I had planned to go back to L.A. do the aerial Skid Row project around 2016-17. I picked up a used 40MB Pentax 645D medium format camera on eBay and some film lenses and was going to rent some helicopter time, but finances precluded ever finishing the project. If you got a good drone, I guess that is what they use now. (Can you get decent medium format quality footage from a drone?) Anyway, something to think about if you are near L.A., you got nothing to do, some $ and time. Oh, and have a good tether for your gear and harness so you stay put. Get the door taken off the helicopter so you have freedom of movement. And get as low as legal limits as you can in the helicopter to get good detail. If you can swing a big boy Phase One camera, maybe you won't need to get as low. Medium format digital gives you fantastic detail! <><><><> 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

Finally finished film. This is the 'FAH' version. (FAH = **(obscenity removed)** a Hater) Original film was about 6-3/4 hours long. I sped it up 10X and got it down to 43min5s. I'm sick of social documentary (people) work for a while. Spent 2018-2019 on IG documentaries making 67 films by looking through 200,000+ IG posts on thousands of accounts. But I got nowhere to go...I'm not a sunset shooter. Short backstory is at end of film. I'd like to put a hi-res version on Blu-ray. Still trying to figure it out. All my software does in standard DVD. I will have to make a non 'FAH' version for those that don't like the FAH. But I think if they don't like the FAH because of language, they wont like the film because of the content either. So maybe I will just leave it FAH. Gotta be true to your art when you are underground. There is no $$...no notoriety...so if you can't be true to your art when underground...what do you have??

This is clip from 'Genderqueer ' - a 60 min social documentary experimental film I made from Instagram on the gender busting revolution. The film has 6 sections: 'Drag Queens' 'Transvestites, Crossdressers & Femboys' 'Transition' (MTF) 'Transmen' (FTM) 'Lesbians' 'Disciples of Androgyne' Back in the day I didn’t know any better, so I lumped drag queens, transvestites and transgender devotees all into one pile. I think every gender bender, whatever their end goal is, started out as a cross dresser to get a taste of being a woman. As I did some homework on the subject I could see that a 'T gal' is very different from your garden variety transvestite / drag queen / cross dresser. A true T gal has put in a lot of time, money and energy transitioning in various degrees from male to female. She grows plump breasts and womanly nipples from taking HRT and sometimes supplements them with breast implants. She loses muscles, develops hips and soft, hairless skin. Her voice may change and some have painful surgery for cosmetic reasons and to remove the penis and replace it with a vagina. Gender bending all starts with a little pill nowadays. Or for 'female to male' it is injections. Here is a list of areas the transwoman works on: Self-esteem / Self-acceptance Coming out Social adaption Hair removal Voice training Socialization as female Hormone therapy Hair removal Wardrobe replacement Future employment prospects Sex Reassignment Surgery Legal / Name change / Gender marker change Whereas, the only work the transvestite / drag queen / cross dresser does is to put on some women’s clothes, false breasts, hip pads and makeup. For female to male it is the opposite of what the transwoman does in some cases. Now, I'm no expert on all this, but this is my take on the gender benders of 2019.