Here’s my first non-photography post in a long time.
There’s an interesting piece on the CNN site about Bryan Berg, who builds houses of cards professionally. With just normal playing cards, he’s set a number of world records with his creations. The following links will have great examples of the myriad of designs he’s done.
Here’s the CNN piece:
and his website:
Photo from his website.
Apparently, he travels all over the world to build exhibits of card “houses”, many of which take days to complete. At his website gallery and in the CNN video, you can see his buildings include things like rotundas and stadiums, etc., not your typical run-of-the-mill structures.
He’s developed techniques that result in very stable structures, and, for skeptics especially, at the end of the exhibits he turns a leaf-blower onto his creations and everything comes crumbling down.
It’s like sand painting, but on a more…3-Dimensional level.
It’s amazing how he turned what was first a simple hobby into a full-time profession.
So cool.
