Anh chàng Bryan Berg là tay có tài dùng các "lá bài Tây" đễ xây dựng các đền đài một cách có mỹ-thuật, đáng tưnỡg lãm, được ghi vào Guinness World Records.

Anh chàng Bryan Berg là tay có tài dùng các "lá bài Tây" đễ xây dựng các đền đài một cách có mỹ-thuật, đáng tưnỡg lãm, được ghi vào Guinness World Records.

Bryan Berg-The World's Best Card Stacker!  

Ever heard of entire buildings and castles constructed out of nothing but cards, without the use of any glue, tape, folding or bending? Well then meet Bryan Berg, who does exactly that. He has held the Guinness World record for the Tallest House of Freestanding Playing Cards since 1992. Guinness World Records also created a new category to recognize his work in 2004, the World’s Largest House of Freestanding Playing Cards. 

 

 

 He continues to break his own world records with his intricate and sensational designs.  Based in Iowa, Berg cut his first stack of cards at the tender age of 8.

 

He has duplicated the New York skyline, Cinderella’s castle and many other such recognizable landmarks worldwide.  He has been perfecting his art for over 30 years. Bryan holds a Professional Degree in Architecture and a Design Achievement Award from Iowa State University and a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard.

His largest work till date is a card recreation of the Venetian Macau Resort-Hotel. He broke his own world record by using 4,000 decks or an amazing 219,000 individual cards, placed on top of each other over a period of 44 days.

 

However he also understands that what goes up must eventually come down. “I also enjoy knocking the structures down because I consider the demolition of each project part of the creative process,” he said.

 

 

       

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9 Famous and Beautiful Topiary Gardens!

Topiary gardens are magical places where nature meets structure. Beautiful greenery is shaped by skilled hands into shapes and forms that delight the eye and bring peace to the heart. Have a look at nine of the most famous and beautiful topiary gardens in the world, all open for public visitation.

Levens Hall

Perhaps the world's oldest topiary garden still in its original design, harking back to the late 17th century. The style at the time called for clipping the trees, shrubs and bushes into geometric shapes and abstract masses. Garden rooms are made with enormous yew and beech hedges. The garden also has an orchard, a nuttery for walnuts and beechnuts and a bowling green.

The Garden of Drummond Castle

Located in Perthshire in Scotland, dating back as far back as 1490, the Drummond Castle grounds have been through many changes over the many years, and today are more representative of a 17th century Scottish garden.

The low clipped embroidered hedges are in the shape of a St. Andrew's cross, and leaning topiary trees add an almost magical charm to the scenery. The tower house on the grounds has remained largely intact, and from it visitors can see the entire garden and pass through them to the distant hillsides.

Marqueyssac

You can find this lovely garden in the Périgord region of France, where, after feasting on some foie gras and truffles, you can walk off your meal on the beautiful paths of this enchanted place. Created in the 19th century, this garden became the life's work of one Julien de Cerval, high above the Dordogne River.

Cerval spent 30 years making sure that 150,000 boxwoods were groomed to resemble the surrounding hills and when looked at from above, they resemble the backs of sheep. This garden is known for its relaxing atmosphere and a feeling of quiet twilight reflection.

Cliveden

The house of Cliveden was the seat of the Duke of Buckingham, who was the second most powerful man in the kingdom of England (after the king of course) back in 1666. He used it as a retreat for entertaining friends and mistresses. The house burned down twice over the years but was restored each time, lastly in 1893 by Viscount William Waldorf Astor, an avid lover of the Renaissance.

In 1912, the garden was given to the National Trust and has been restored and replanted by them. The most beautiful reconstruction was a maze consisting of 1,100 clipped yews and covering a third of an acre. Visitors can easily get lost in this gorgeous maze, but luckily there is a maze keeper who's role is to make sure everyone finds their way out.

Ladew Gardens

One of the oldest topiary gardens in the new world, the Ladew Gardens can be found off interstate 95 near Baltimore, Maryland. They were created by Harvey S. Ladew in the early 20th century and cover about 22 acres.

A lover of gentlmen's sports, the garden depicts many scenes of foxes and dogs running across lawns next to riders and horses hot in pursuit. A huge swimming pool is surrounded by topiary hedges in wave form and topped with the likeness of swimming swans. The life-like visage of these earthly sculptures is quite a sight to behold.

Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens were designed to be one of the most incredible American estates by Geoffrey Jellicoe, the founder and first president of the International Federation of Landscape Architects.

The grounds were sold and resold a few times during the beginning of the 20th century, until they were bought by a man named Du Pont, who was a world traveller and adored the European style of gardening. Guided by these ideals, he created a garden of yews in various geometric and animal shapes. The Longwood Gardens can be found about 30 miles from Philadelphia.

Green Animals Topiary Garden

This is one garden children simply adore.  Following the European Renaissance tradition of creating furry shapes in clipped trees and shrubs, this garden hosts a large variety of cute critters. Visitors to this lovely garden in Portmouth, Rhode Island, can enjoy a breathtaking view of Narragansett Bay while the children run around the teddy bears, elephant, ostrich, unicorn and 75 other animal-shaped fauna.

These grounds belonged originally to Thomas Brayton, a very rich man, whose gardener started experimenting with shaping the topiary forms in the first decades of the 20th century. In 1940, Brayton's daughter Alice took over and called it 'The Green Animals Garden'.  Every year, a special Green Animals Children's Party is held, for the delight of hundreds of lucky children.

Lotusland

This garden is not your average grounds. It was created in 1941 by Ganna Walska, a Polish opera singer with a famous temper who hated anything that was 'normal'. Other than having many husbands, she also added some special features to her garden, among them is the blue slag glass that was recycled from the Los Angeles spring water factory.

The plant collection in this garden is something to amaze: Over 3000 different specimens. Visitors wishing to see the garden today must make a special appointment, because even though it is a public garden, it is located inside a private residental area.

Pearl Fryar

Found in Bishopville, South Carolina, this ongoing creation of modern gardening was created in the 1980s by Pearl Fryar after he had rescued trees and shrubs from local nurseries. These sick plants were collected like abandoned orphans in this garden to nurse them back to health. After the sick trees and shrubs had flourished, he began shaping them into various abstract forms.

Unlike most topiary gardens whose shapes are usually made of a few types of plants, the topiary shapes here come from over 50 different kinds of trees and shrubs. Today, Fryar lectures all across the nation about the subject of topiary gardens and his garden has received fame and acclaim around the world.

Source:  Frank R.

    

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The advent of the smartphone is slowly making watches and clocks obsolete, which is a crying shame because these both have a long and rich legacy of beautiful decoration and artistic craftsmanship. These watches, whether homages to the grand-master clock makers of old or innovative new designs for the modern era, seek to keep our love of watches and timepieces alive.

One of the most enchanting things about watch design, especially when talking about mechanical watches, is the scale at which everything happens. Not only are these designs absolutely beautiful, they are all also constrained to a tiny disk strapped to your wrist. And yet, despite this limitation, there are round tables surrounded by knights, whirling planets, beautiful birds and poetic fairy-tales. Many of the world’s greatest watchmakers also no longer limit themselves to simply documenting a 24-hour day, either. Weeks, months, and the time in other cities around the world can all be monitored, and even the moon’s phases and the movement of celestial bodies. You name it and they'll have it made especially for you.

Astronomical Watch:

 On the other hand, digital watches have opened up a new world of opportunities for watchmakers that just weren’t available before. Sleek modern designs, lights, and the lack of moving parts are just a few of the basic hallmarks of the digital watches on this list. The lack of moving parts especially allows digital watchmakers to move in new directions – their faces can display information in totally new ways, and they can be made flexible or even see-through.

Midnight Planétarium is a luxuriuos masterpiece of science and design – a watch that shows 6 planets from the Solar system rotating around the Sun in their actual pace. The creation of this spectacular device took 3 whole years of work and 396 separate pieces – which is why it costs $245,000.

The planets are represented with tiny precious and semiprecous stones: Mercury (serpentine), Venus (chloromelanite), Earth (turquoise), Mars (red jasper), Jupiter (blue agate), and Saturn (sugilite). 2 planets from the Solar System were not included given the pace of their rotation around the Sun pace, which would hardly be noticeable within a human lifetime: it takes over 84 years for Uranus and 164 years for Neptune to complete full revolutions!

This astonishing piece was presented to the public this month at the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva by Van Cleef & Arpels in partnership with Dutch watchmaker Christiaan van der Klaauw.

Eye of the Storm:

Eye of the Storm is a unique watch design. A watch without a clock face. I must agree with the designer that reading the time on a watch doesn’t actually require the center part. We only need to know where the clock’s hands are pointing. In this watch, the time is illuminated on the black outer frame only when a button is pressed; otherwise, the watch is completely blank.

This watch design was inspired by the eye of the storm. We know that a storm can be very violent, a destructive natural
catastrophe. But the center of a swirling storm is a core of calm and quiet, a void. The time moves around the void. Eye of the storm watch design is also good news for many people who are sensitive to the metal parts of watches.

Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory-Inspired Melted Wristwatch

A while back we featured the Chrome Trimmed Hanging Melted Clock, a nice home time piece inspired from Salvador Dali‘s “Persistence of Memory“. Now, we’re back with a wristwatch version of the same art piece.

The Melted Wristwatch is a chrome analog watch powered by quartz precision movement, features a black rubber band, a melted shape case and roman numerals dials.

ZIIIRO Mercury Watch

Ziiiro had this idea to create watches without any hands or numbered faces, the result are some of the coolest designs on the market. Using colors, orbiting planetary imagery and swirls, these watches will cause a double take every time.The Ziiiro Mercury tells the time in a really cool way.

The tip of the inner ring represents the hour and the outer ring the minutes. They swirl in opposite directions, creating a visual unsurpassed by any other timepiece. The bracelet is stainless mesh, forming a flexible yet durable band.

Excalibur Watch

With the new season of HBO’s medieval fantasy drama “Game of Thrones” upon us, it seems an appropriate time to highlight a timepiece from Roger Dubuis‘s new Excalibur collection, the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Round Table, a limited-edition model distinguished by its 12 sculptural “knights” stationed at each hour marker.

The Ora Unica Watch

At first glance, you might be confused as to how to tell time on the Ora Unica, but it’s actually quite simple. Just look at the position of the inner end of the squiggle for the current hour, and the outer end for minutes. Simple, elegant, and truly unique.

Bird Repeater Watch

In an attempt to connect the contemporary Jaquet Droz with the past, classic Swiss manufacturer of wristwatches, whose history dates back to 1738, the fabled brand has recently presented a brand new automata-based repeater watch, dubbed as the Bird Repeater.

The research and development processes have taken several years, but the outcome is a genuine piece of artwork. The limited edition Bird Repeater will be available in two versions, red gold and grey gold set with diamonds. The specialists behind Jaquet Droz have drawn inspiration from the 18th century, when bird automatons used to be En Vogue.

Earth And Moon Watch

Time can be calculated according to the position of the moon in the dial.

Dragon Gate Legend Watch

The Dragon Gate Legend has a 49 mm red gold case and is equiped with a Calibre AS 690, a movement Cornelius & Cie use in their Chronosome XY46 collection. These movements are developed and produced by the A. Schild company in Grenchen, Switzerland, in 1935. The movement beats at steady/classic frequency of 18.000 bph. (beats
per hour). When the strong main spring is fully wound, the movement has a power reserve of 8 days! Other watches with such power reserve have two (or sometimes three) coupled mainspring barrels. The large and very strong main spring is inside an eccentrically positioned barrel, which is immediately evident by the shape of the case between the 5 and 6 o’clock position.

SOH – A Second Of Happiness Watch

The "Second of Happiness" (SoH) watch is currently just a concept, but it certainly could be made. It is the charming and clever brainchild of 21 year old French design student Mathilde Ampe. Ironically enough, the watch does not display the seconds. According to Mathilde, this is also her very first watch design.

The SoH watch is meant to look like a face. Not just a watch face, but a more human-like face. The focal point of the design are two rotating discs that are meant to look like eyes, and the pupils are the indicators. The left eye disc indicates the hours and the right disc is for the minutes. Does that make it hard to tell the time? A bit.

Time Traveller

Time Traveller allows you to see the time all over the world. The watch uses 16 landmark buildings to mark the time in different regions. You can read the local time by looking at the landmark building in your city or time-zone: for example if you're in London then you use Big Ben as your hour hand; in Paris you look to the Eiffel Tower or in New York you use the Statue of Liberty. A pigeon, the universal city dweller marks the minutes.

Wingt Mille Watch

  

The Two Men Being Held By The Squid Indicate The Hours And Minutes.

Digital Destruction Watch

Time marches on. The old must make way for the new, but sometimes it does not go willingly as with the Digital Destruction Watch. Set in an analog body, the traditional mechanical dial seems to have shattered to make way for the digital LCD screen. The “crown” is actually a button that switches between time, second, and date modes, as well as activate the back-light.

The Bradley

The Bradley watch, which displays the time via a ball bearing that moves around the face, has also emerged as a frontrunner for the Design of the Year 2014 award, organised by the Design Museum in London.

Black Cobra

Black Cobra or UR-CC1 AlTiN is made from grey gold case tranformed into black, to further emphasized on black character and black heart. Designed in limited edition of only 25 pieces. Hold on the “Black Cobra” face and you will see two unusual indications: jumping hours and retrograde minutes. UR-CC1 AlTiN designed with Bright yellow glowing
from black anthracite is the only luminous evidence emmetting from this reptilian machine. The hours and minutes count down the time by moving linearly          

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