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youtube.com - 8/18/2008

Beijing Olympic Village as Card House (video)

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Took that dude 20 days to built it. Fun Blog: http://www.random-good-stuff.com

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gizmodo.com - 8/18/2008

Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards [On The Cards]

— gizmodo.com — 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 ... (more) Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing ...

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jeqq.com - 8/16/2008

Top Most Beautiful Women Athletes in Beijing Olympic 2008

— jeqq.com — Watch out for Top Most Beautiful Women Athletes in Beijing Olympic 2008.A complete list of all the... top athletes in olympic 2008 with their profiles a > 2 Vote(s) (more) Top Most Beautiful Women Athletes in Beijing Olympic 2008

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Guy Builds Olympic Village Replica with 140,000 Playing Cards [On The Cards]
Gizmodo — 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 days, 140,000 cards and 100% craziness. [Random Good Stuff] ...

Amazing Olympic scenes - this time with playing cards
CrunchGear — Forget LEGO’s. Real pimps use playing cards to build Olympic scenes. via Gizmodo

Beijing Olympic village built with playing cards
Newlaunches.com — cards_olympics.jpg Around 4500 Lego enthusiasts from Hong Kong created the Olympics using 300,000 Lego bricks, and now playing homage to the greatest sporting event of the year is Bryan Berg who has built the entire Olympic village in Beijing along with the Bird Nest stadium and everything surrounding it using playing cards. A proud Guinness record holder Bryan has built the Olympics stadium and other structures (the bucket, the tower, etc.) in just 20 days. (Video of Bryan working on the stadium after the jump) Photo via Flickr

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) [via Gizmodo] More: Playing Card Top Hat Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!