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 ...

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (UPI) -- A San Francisco artist has marked the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking by creating a model of the doomed liner from a single toothpick. Stephen J. Backman ...

Scott Weaver has spent a? sizable chunk of his ?58 years on Earth bonding toothpicks with Elmer’s glue. “It is so tedious,” he affirmed at his longtime home in Rohnert Park. Yet, he can’t stop.

Steven J. Backman makes sculptures out of toothpicks, a long, painstaking process. If you're assembling something out of 30,000 little pieces, you need oceans of patience. Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak ...

Step right into the Tinkering Studio at San Francisco's Exploratorium where you can tinker until you make lights go on and buzzers sound, make music on a musical bench or create a toothpick sculpture, ...