Bryan Berg
Bryan Berg (born March 21, 1974) is a professional "cardstacker" who builds large-scale houses of cards.
Career
Trained as an architect, Bryan Berg is the only known person to make a living building structures with freestanding playing cards. He uses no tape, glue, or tricks, and his method has been tested to support 660 lbs. per square foot.
Berg earned a Professional Degree in architecture from Iowa State University in 1997, and served on the design faculty there for three years. In 2004, Berg earned his Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Berg has stacked cards for corporate special events, public relations campaigns, and science and children's museums in many U.S. cities, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Berg's clients have included Walt Disney World, Lexus, Procter & Gamble, Major League Baseball, the NHL, and the San Francisco Opera. He also participated in a music video by The Bravery, playing a lonely man who builds a fantasy world out of cards.
Podcasts:
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by Hellacopters
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by The Hellacopters
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by Son Ambulance
Born Broke
by: HellacoptersStaying straight, got me so strung out
Being sure just put me in doubt
Your teaching really made me dumb
Don't call me slacker 'cuz I am a bum
Hang around the wrong kind of streets
Can't get out but I can take the heat
Smokin' cigarettes 'til I choke 'cuz
I was born baby, born to be broke
Born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Born broke
Down another six-pack
Please get 'em off my back
If I can keep the I.R.S. away
From my guitar I will be okay
'Cuz I'm broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
I'm born broke, born broke
Staying straight, got me so strung out
Being sure just put me in doubt
Your teaching really made me dumb
Don't call me slacker 'cuz I am a bum
Hang around the wrong kind of streets
Can't get out but I can take the heat
Smokin' cigarettes 'til I choke
'Cuz I was born baby, born to be broke
Born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Oh yes, I'm born broke
Yes, I'm born broke
I'm broke
Yes, I'm born broke
Yes, I'm born broke