Video: San Francisco of a million toothpicks. Scott Weaver's 30-year-old hobby
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
And it all started with the fact that classmates of an 8-year-old Scott Weaver the teacher gave the task to make a sculpture out of toothpicks, and little Scott said that he would do the job better than anyone else. And so it happened - the sculpture of a fourth-grader turned into a huge city of toothpicks, except that more than 30 years have passed since that memorable day. Having started to create the sights of his native San Francisco from toothpicks, the artist has been doing this to this day. So, he plans to assemble a complete, perhaps a reduced version of the metropolis, which already reaches 2.1 meters in width and 2.7 meters in height.
However, this is not a completely realistic layout, says Scott Weaver of his brainchild. For 30 years, the city has grown and changed a lot, and the master simply does not have time to correct the already created pieces of the whole city, so all that remains is to supplement the creation with new memorials.
For everything about everything, Scott Weaver needed more than a million toothpicks, but there will still be more! So, already today, excursions can be conducted on an incomplete model of San Francisco, and ping-pong balls can even "walk" on excursions on their own, since something like a 15-foot track is laid inside the model.
It is known that the Ripley Museum expressed a desire to purchase the work of Scott Weaver for $ 40 million, but the author refused.
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