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 ...

"Rolling Through the Bay," a sculpture made of more than 100,000 toothpicks and glue, depicts the San Francisco Bay area. CNET speaks with artist Scott Weaver. Kristina Rosa Associate Producer ...

(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 ...

An Illinois teenager broke a Guinness World Record by building a 17.32-foot-tall replica of the Eiffel Tower from about ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- A toothpick is a humble thing, ubiquitous but so commonplace as to be ignored. Not so for Wayne Kusy. For most of his 61 years, toothpicks — thousands of them, millions of them — have been ...

Who would have thought a small piece of wood used for picking food out of people's teeth could be art? Burlingame resident Steven Backman saw the possibilities when he was 5 years old. Backman's love ...

SHAKOPEE – Much like any retiree, Shakopee resident Jerry Hackett needed to find a new pastime when he left High Five Erectors, a steel erection company where he worked as an accountant. When he lived ...

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 ...

Toothpicks have made their way not into mouths or finger-food presentations, but into Stan Munro's hands, as building blocks for much bigger items. Ahram Online had the pleasure to go one-on-one with ...