A YouTuber has set a World Record after toppling 100,000 dominoes in a stunning eight-minute display. After spending ten days arranging 100,000 tiles side by side, artist Lily Hevesh and a team of nine international builders completed a massive domino installation at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
One section of the installation reached a height of 33 feet, 3 inches, setting a Guinness World Record for the world’s tallest domino structure. The dominoes were knocked down on July 20. Before the 50-by-50-foot tiled trail was destroyed, the crowd started counting down.
Then, two kids pushed over the first block, triggering a satisfying cascade of colorful pieces. It took over 8 minutes for the final domino to fall. Lily’s project was made to fit her overall domino aesthetic, creating portraits as the dominoes topple, per My Modern Met .
This includes depicting the Washington, D.C. skyline, the Mona Lisa, and floral arrangements.
According to The Washington Post, the 25-year-old started creating domino art at the age of 10 and gained a YouTube following thanks to her stunning designs. “When you see the effects that the dominoes are creating by having that motion and kinetic energy, that’s where I think the real beauty of domino art comes out,” she told The Post. Her channel, Hevesh5, has since amassed over 1.
8 billion views and 4.14 million subscribers. In another installation , Lily recreated Super Mario Bros franchise characters using 18,000 dominoes.
The artist revealed that she doesn’t use traditional black-and-white dominoes but custom-designed colorful pieces with a textured surface that minimizes slippage. Related: “Typical dominoes usually have dots and they’re more rounded, so they’re not good for the building of structures,” Lily said. “H5 domino creations are more precise, so they’re perfect two-by-one ratios, and every single domino is alike, so you can build them super tall.
“They come in all different colors, no dots, and we have a special surface texture so when they topple over they’re not gonna slide out like a lot of game dominoes will.”.
