gizmodo.com - 8/18/2008
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This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model's just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to avoid shaky hands, sneezing and stepping incautiously for a whole 20 days while he put the card model together, detailing even the woven-girder shapes of the Bird's Nest. Yup— that's 20 ...
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Amazing Olympic scenes - this time with playing cards
CrunchGear —
Forget LEGO’s. Real pimps use playing cards to build Olympic scenes.
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Olympic village in playing cards
MAKE Magazine —
Brian Berg spent 20 days recreating Beijing's Olympic Village using over 140,000 playing cards.
(and apparently didn't sneeze once during construction)
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