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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Amazing Toothpick Sculpture

Did you ever have to do a toothpick sculpture for a school project? I remember having to do a few of them and mine were never any work of art! The one I'm showing you today is. Scott Weaver, the man who did this one has been working on it for over 35 years and has put more than 100,000 toothpicks into it. It's 9 foot tall and is filled with scenes of San Fransisco. Better yet - it's a kinetic sculpture which has several "tours" which moves ping pong balls through different neighborhoods of the city. Here's a few pictures of it.




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Here's a short video if you'd like to see it with the ping pong balls going through it.

 

14 comments:

Betsy Brock said...

wow!!! 35 years? That is just amazing...and so well done, too! Very, very cool!

Anonymous said...

Truly amazing!

Life and Breath and Everything Else said...

Wow. He must have a lot of patience :)

Kim said...

Crazy cool.

Unknown said...

WOWOWOW!!!! Truly amazing; the man has to have the patience of Job!

RR Mama said...

Wow! Those are amazing. Sorry I haven't been visiting on a regular basis. You know how life can be. Hope you are doing great!

Anonymous said...

I loved his mother's quote to get that thing finished and out of his wife's living room! LOL What an amazing work of art.

Hootin Anni said...

Oh my gosh...this is outstanding work!

Anonymous said...

Amazing!!

Cherdecor said...

That is so cool!

Just Mom said...

Oh my word, that is amazing!

LL Cool Joe said...

Oh my goodness that's amazing! How skilful. I wonder if it's an anti-climax now it's finished?

Mary Lee said...

Amazing!!

Jenny said...

I am speechless. Isn't it amazing what can be accomplished when a person just keeps on keeping on?