 (The planned on about 80-hour performance was canceled after 36 hours on medical advice because of collapse of one of the participants).Under the moniker Dizi, Dirk Zimmer had a brief career as a painter during the German avant-garde movement and then turned to filmmaking, which he eventually dropped in the late 1970s to work as an illustrator for such American publications as Crawdaddy, the New York Times, and The New-York Magazine.Over the years, both his paintings and illustrations, were shown in private galleries in New York, Germany, Switzerland, and France.