CARDSTACKER
NEWS :
WORLD RECORD 2007
Bryan Berg, the acknowledged inventor of cardstacking on the
grand scale, embarked on a month-long project with The Texas
State Fair in Dallas, TX in October 2007 to create a new Guinness
World Record for the World's Tallest House of Cards.
A self-taught artist, Berg uses no tape, glue, or other tricks
in his work. With 1,800 decks of freestanding playing cards,
some scaffolding, and a hole in the ceiling, he worked for
five weeks to complete the 25 foot, 9.5 inch tower- limited
only by the height of the building he was working in and time.
Even the artist was surprised at how strong his huge construction
turned out to be, when a leaf blower shorted out during the
knockdown and he was forced to take a "Godzilla"
approach and destroy the tower by hand.
This is the third time Berg has been commissioned to break
his own world record, the first of which he set in 1992 at
the age of 17. He has held the record continiously ever since,
and has also been commissioned to pioneer a brand new record
category, World's Largest House of Freestanding Cards, which
he completed at Walt Disney World in 2004. It was a replica
of Cinderella's castle which was 14 feet square, 14 feet tall,
and 400 pounds.
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