Someday, Scott Weaver's living room will belong to his wife again. But for now, and the past several decades, it's living proof of what happens when toothpicks, pingpong balls and the imagination ...

A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A replica of famous Bay Area landmarks was put together one toothpick at a time. In the latest episode of “15 with Justine,” host Justine Waldman meets artist Scott Weaver, a ...

One man, one calculator, and more than 100,000 toothpicks. When Scott Weaver started making his colossal toothpick sculpture, "Rolling Through the Bay," it was the 1970s and Nixon was in office.

Perhaps only at a county fair could a thing made out of toothpicks become the focus of mass adulation and awe. But that’s precisely what’s happened at the Sonoma County Fair with its exhibit of a ...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - One young man is taking creativity to a different level. On any given day, after he’s worked an 8-hour shift, you can find him at home working some more. He’s not just putting ...

(CBS/CNET) Imagine being able to spend 10 hours working on something and having zero distractions - no phone calls, no e-mail, and no music. That's the kind of concentration Steven J. Backman exhibits ...

A sculptor has scaled new heights - by building the world's tallest toothpick model. Stanley Hayes Munro, 45, from Syracuse, New York, is a toothpick engineer. The former haunted house designer built ...