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[starlagurl]

Wow...3,000 hours of work and there you have it ... a toothpick sculpture you can roll a pingpong ball through... right.



Excerpt: "He was a teenager when he started building his sculpture, and had it not been for one wrong step Weaver took during a race, the project might still be unfinished. About a year and a half ago, he was running near San Francisco's Marina Green when he blew out his left knee. Though he limped to the finish, three subsequent surgeries forced him to take a temporary leave from his longtime job as a supermarket produce manger. It also opened up more than 900 hours of free time.

Because Weaver's job doesn't pay much, he jokes that as far has hobbies go, his offers the best bang-for-your-buck: A box of 750 toothpicks costs just 99 cents.

"Rolling through the Bay" has survived four homes, an earthquake, and Trooper, one of Weaver's four Great Danes who once obliterated Fisherman's Wharf with a swipe of his tail."

[mmbcross]

Amazing. I wonder how old he is now? He doesn't exactly look like a spring chicken. There's nothing like a hobby to keep you active in later life.

[aopaq]

Wow.....I wonder just how many toothpicks he used??

[semi-backpacker]

Wow this is impressive...though I hope the dog is well-behaved and doesn't knock it over.

[starlagurl]

Oh I forgot the link to the article! It's funny because his dog DID knock one over before! Like, 200 hours of work destroyed!

I can't remember how many toothpicks he used...it was in the hundreds of thousands though... I think.

[semi-backpacker]

If I spent over 200 hours on something, I'd make sure it was in a place unreachable by my pet...I'm just saying... :-)

[starlagurl]

Haha, yeah I know! Probably after that he doesn't let any thing near it.

[kitkatgo]

Holy cow!

I bet that will be displayed on Fisherman's Wharf somewhere before too long.