Astonishing Toothpick Sculpture

[joboo]

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Made from over 100,000 toothpicks over the course of 35 years, the “Rolling through the Bay (http://www.rollingthroughthebay.com/)” toothpick sculpture was created by Scott Weaver, an artist who has been building toothpick sculptures since he was 8 years old, back in 1968.

http://cdn.freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Toothpick-sculpture-3.jpeg

The sculpture features four ping-pong balls that take you on a tour across the toothpick city. The idea for this sculpture came in 1974, when constructing a new sculpture, Scott Weaver added the Golden Gate Bridge and Lombard Street, which had a ping-pong ball roll through it.

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http://cdn.freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Toothpick-sculpture-6.jpeg

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG5DkJWbeEg

http://freshome.com/2011/04/28/astonishing-toothpick-sculpture-rolling-through-the-bay-by-scott-weaver-video/

[vacuum]

I hope the man has fire insurance on it.

[mamboni]

That's beautiful work! I hope he sprays for termites.

Does anyone have that video where the guy was displaying this amazing sculpture that took years to build, and the host accidently bumps it and trashs the entire sculpture in seconds? The look on their faces is priceless. LOL

Found it:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py805hYfopw

[Canadian-guerilla]

some of those pics should be under " patience " in the dictionary

[joboo]

Crazy part is the entire thing is functional.

Check out the video, buddy rolls balls through all the various different tours of the thing.

[joboo]

That's beautiful work! I hope he sprays for termites.

Does anyone have that video where the guy was displaying this amazing sculpture that took years to build, and the host accidently bumps it and trashs the entire sculpture in seconds? The look on their faces is priceless. LOL

Found it:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py805hYfopw

Classic vid. Shame it's a fake.

"I emailed my friend (who works at NMU and knows the people involved)... this was his reply...

"Yes Tom it was staged. I hate to burst your bubble or knock down your tower
of Pisa. The Dude has creative ways to knock down his creations. He
knocked down his sears tower with little robots."

"Constructed in January 2005 in the Olsen Library on NMU's Campus

I built this tower because people everywhere were wondering what the next structure would be. I wanted to do one that was rather unique, and I had built this one at home, and it was a blast to do. Unlike the original Pisa tower which has mortar and the such this one relies only on gravity to keep the lean. It is made completely hollow just as the original one is.

It took about six days to construct because it collapsed seven times before finally perfecting the lean. It took approximately 80 sets of Jenga to build this tower.

It was demolished by stringing a wire through the bottom of it which was hidden out of view of the camera that was filming the event. When 'interviewer' Mike Roy stepped around it with his microphone cord the wire was pulled to make it collapse."

http://cara-jo.net/bryant/index.htm

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=60;t=001178;p=1

[mamboni]

Classic vid. Shame it's a fake.

"I emailed my friend (who works at NMU and knows the people involved)... this was his reply...

"Yes Tom it was staged. I hate to burst your bubble or knock down your tower
of Pisa. The Dude has creative ways to knock down his creations. He
knocked down his sears tower with little robots."

"Constructed in January 2005 in the Olsen Library on NMU's Campus

I built this tower because people everywhere were wondering what the next structure would be. I wanted to do one that was rather unique, and I had built this one at home, and it was a blast to do. Unlike the original Pisa tower which has mortar and the such this one relies only on gravity to keep the lean. It is made completely hollow just as the original one is.

It took about six days to construct because it collapsed seven times before finally perfecting the lean. It took approximately 80 sets of Jenga to build this tower.

It was demolished by stringing a wire through the bottom of it which was hidden out of view of the camera that was filming the event. When 'interviewer' Mike Roy stepped around it with his microphone cord the wire was pulled to make it collapse."

http://cara-jo.net/bryant/index.htm

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=60;t=001178;p=1

I had a suspicious it was staged when the artist didn't immediately freak out and start strangling the idiot reporter, especially after warning him about the cord. If that were my sculpture I would have a barracade around it and a ten foot buffer zone - it only takes one moron to destroy a great creation.

[midnight rambler]

it only takes one moron to destroy a great creation.

You got that right.

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[osoab]

That's beautiful work! I hope he sprays for termites.




Just wanted to point out, that termites eat inside the wood. They sometimes do build their crap tunnels on the exterior, but there really isn't that much wood to make crap tunnels upon or to burrow inside when considering tooth picks as the wood source.