Comet Ping Pong Tumblr account provides more ties to Dr. Pong/Germany

smctak | 49 points | Nov 18 2016 21:50:32

Comet Ping Pong Tumblr account provides more ties to Dr. Pong/Germany

Stumbled over this old Tumblr account. Nothing fancy, different pictures. http://cometpingpong.tumblr.com/

Long story short, I happened to notice that some of the images weren't from the Comet area, but someplace else. Images: http://sli.mg/B7rDLv https://sli.mg/OlLC87 ("secret plans...")

Turns out, the "Bier" picture with the single guy is certainly taken outside Dr. Pong, see Google Maps. Street view is outdated (2008), but the 3D view shows the proper colours, notice the deep red building: https://www.google.no/maps/place/Dr.+Pong/@52.5381087,13.4106041,405a,20y,41.61t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47a851ff48c041ff:0xca1886377d4ceaa5!8m2!3d52.5409446!4d13.4107233

The second picture, with the digging, is likely at the same location. Same guy, same architecture. Hard to tell without

The half-bald beard guy I have no clue who is, but the black-haired one is likely the owner of Dr. Pong, Oliver Miller: http://blog.uberpong.com/uberpong-european-tour-2014-review/david-lowe-oliver-miller-clemont-girardot-johannes-beusker/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geTe-7htlRA

Notice anything in the video? Yes, he's speaking English, not German. He has an artist profile here: http://exhibits.haverford.edu/thewallinourheads/artists/oliver-miller-american-born-1972/

This ties in well with the Dr. Pong picture found at the Comet website (?) as well as Alefantis' mention of Dr. Pong in a picture of a newspaper on Instagram.

Zerwas | 7 points | Nov 18 2016 22:48:20

A friend of mine from Berlin is going to Dr.Pong soon and will report here.
The place has this shabby look that is "en vogue" in Berlin but it seems to be only one room where people drink and play ring around one ping-pong table. It is weird, especially their website looks extremely outdated and does not fit the style of the etablissement at all.

smctak | 6 points | Nov 19 2016 08:13:55

By now they probably got rid of most stuff, but can't hurt. There is a more obvious connection; Alefantis and Miller co-owns the Nalu diner in Berlin.

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hanknut42 | 3 points | Nov 18 2016 22:01:50

DO we know what Dr Pong looks like or is it just a place?

smctak | 3 points | Nov 18 2016 22:02:50

There is plenty of footage from in- and outdoors on Youtube, besides the one I linked to.

hanknut42 | 3 points | Nov 18 2016 22:06:09

i wanna know why Dr Pong Site has the watermark of Rey Mystero jr on it? which was also in that comet ping pong that someone said they got from the pass word protected archives.