Olympic Village: World Record Cardstacker Edit

Using 140,000 playing cards, World renowned performance artist Brian Berg replicated the Olympic Village during Hong Kong’s Stackathon in July 2008.

For the Olympic Village replicate, Berg spent 20 days in Hong Kong with over 250,000 visitors per day. The purpose: The 160-hour Stakathon was an initiative to capture the spirit of the Beijing Olympics, as well as “invigorate arts and culture” in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district, a district that is also a Guinness World record holder as the “highest population density in the world.”

In 1992, at just 17, Berg scooped up the Guinness World Record for the World’s Tallest House of Cards at fourteen feet, six inches tall; in 1999, he beat out the record of the World’s Tallest House of Cards, which was twenty-five feet tall and used 1500 decks of cards, weighing 250 pounds: Berg’s house was about a foot taller. He’s been hired on by Disney World to replicate Cinderella’s Castle, seen in the images.

If you are interested in learning how to stack like Berg, he also wrote a book cleverly titled, Stacking the Deck that sells for $20 and available on his website.