Dog Nights of Burma

Myanmar, December 2015 http://www.vierundsechzig.de/f64/2016/10/30/burmese-nights/

Myanmar, December 2015 http://www.vierundsechzig.de/f64/2016/10/30/burmese-nights/

Myanmar, December 2015 http://www.vierundsechzig.de/f64/2016/10/30/burmese-nights/

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Zwei mal Zwei Nichts

Scans from old negatives bought on the fleamerket in Udel’Naya, near St. Petersburg; nothing is known about the persons on the image, nor of the time when the pictures were taken
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St. Petersbury,, found September 2019

zwei mal zwei nichts

— from the experiments of Konstantīns Raudive

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On Memory

Udel Naya, found footage, date unknown

But if memory shows us the past, how does it show us that it is the past?

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Lack of Conviction

Bobby Timmons, who has once been in Art Blakey’s Messenger and wrote songs like Moanin’, died at 38 years, without getting anywhere near the fame the people he worked for, like Cannonball Adderly or Art Blakey. He briefly touched fame when he wrote Moanin’ while playing with Art Blakey. He was one of the people that almost got famous, but never quite made it due to a lack of effort or stamina or desire. His liver gave way after he had treated her poorly with drugs and alcohol.

These non-famous people and their disdain for fame at all. Why bother? And still, there was this nagging feeling of having underachieved, of being cheated out of the fame you deserve: By bad luck, by bad timing, by a lack of devotion – when the real reason has only been a lack of conviction in the idea of achieving something.

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