Bryan Berg is a professional "cardstacker" who builds houses of cards on a very large scale. he born in 1975.He trained as an architect,He is the only known person to make a living building structures with freestanding playing cards.He uses no tape, glue, or tricks, and his method has been tested to support 660 lbs. per square foot.
His Official Website is http://www.cardstacker.com/
His Official Website is http://www.cardstacker.com/
Berg earned a Professional Degree in Architecture from Iowa State University in 1997, and served on the design faculty there for three years.In 2004, Berg earned his Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Berg has stacked cards for corporate special events, public relations campaigns, and science and children's museums in many U.S. cities, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Berg's clients have included Walt Disney World, a Lexus commercial, Procter & Gamble, American major league baseball and hockey, and the San Francisco Opera among others.
In 2004, Berg created a 15-foot replica of Disney World's Cinderella Castle. Over the course of 30 days, he used 3,000 decks to build this Magical Kingdom of cards, which set the Guinness World Record for the World's Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards.
In February 2005, Berg joined forces with “Decked Out in Times Square,” an on-air tsunami relief fundraiser, for which he spent 10 days at the ABC Studios in New York’s Times Square to build this structure. The piece, which is made up of 178,000 cards, features landmarks including the Flatiron Building, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.
Though Berg doesn't typically use any "trickery" (adhesives), he did in 2006 to recreate this famous sign, which was commissioned by Loctite and displayed at the 2006 World Series of Poker. The materials he used include playing cards, dice, poker chips, wood and Loctite Control Gel Super Glue. The completed project weighed over 600 pounds.
In 2007, Berg—who was introduced to "cardstacking" by his grandfather—created this piece in three days using 22,000 cards (that’s more than 407 decks). Watch this video to see Berg build the structure in fast-forward.
The Bravery
In 2007, Berg appeared with The Bravery in their music video for the song "Time Won't Let Me Go.” He built several freestanding elements of the "card world" featured in the clip.
Dallas Art Museum
In 2007, using 1,000 decks of cards, Berg broke his own Guinness World Record for The World's Tallest House of Freestanding Playing Cards by building this tower, which stands over 25 feet tall. See him in action here.
In 2008, Berg—who uses a strategic four-card cell structure he calls "grids" to arrange his cards—built a replica of the Beijing Olympic Village in 20 days using 140,000 playing cards. Watch Berg build the village replica.
In 2009, the Holiday Inn completed its twelve-hundredth hotel as part of a $1 billion relaunch. To celebrate, they commissioned Berg to construct a life-size hotel room, lobby and furniture, for which he used 200,000 cards. This was the second project of Berg's career for which he used glue. He was also featured in this Holiday Inn commercial.
Lexus City
In 2009, Lexus commissioned Berg to build an "any-city skyline" on the roof and surrounding a running Lexus ES to demonstrate the smoothness of the new model's engine. Berg worked on the project for three weeks and used 64,800 cards. Watch the commercial.
In 2010, this 33' x 10', 218,792-card replica of the Macao, China, luxury resort—which Berg built in 44 days—beat out his own Cinderella Castle as the World's Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards.
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