I’m in Manhattan for work, and my trip back to the hotel tonight from dinner took me by the Good Morning America studio in Times Square, where Bryan Berg of Ames, Iowa is currently living and building a New York city skyline made of 170,000 playing cards–no fasteners involved.
Bryan is attempting to break his own Guinness record, and is doing it all in the name of tsunami relief–the 170,000 cards include one for each victim. (I hope he buys his decks in bulk, at a steep discount–and that Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer aren’t prone to sneezing fits.)
How anyone can dislike a country where this can be going on in a storefront window in the middle of a major city, I don’t know–for the most part, I’m not a fan of the new “improved” Times Square, but I’m delighted to make an exception here.
I had fun watching and taking pictures, and quickly discovered that it was just as much fun to take pictures of other people who were having fun watching and taking pictures.
(Update: Bryan’s cards were donated by Allegra Network and the Chicago Playing Card Company.)
