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35 yrs. constructing San Francisco replica out of toothpicks

submitted by eric3579

1 decade 2 years 9 months ago

Scott Weaver has spent the last 35 years painstakingly constructing a replica of the city of San Francisco made of toothpicks! Not only that, but it is also a marble run, allowing ping-pong balls to take various tours through the city. -yt

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Best tour of the city ever.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, August 14th, 2011 11:55am PDT - promote requested by original submitter eric3579.

I'm pretty sure it takes some badass *engineering skills to make this. Pure awesome!

Adding video to channels (Engineering) - requested by hpqp.

Wow. Man loves his city.

Same dude with the same Toothpick San Francisco here:
http://videosift.com/video/Man-builds-San-Francisco-model-from-1-000-000-toothpicks

and here:
http://videosift.com/video/San-Fransico-Sculputure-in-100000-Toothpicks

I can certainly understand his passion for his city, San Fran, the whole bay area really, is a great place. Have spent a fair bit of time there while working in a dot com company.

ant

*comedy too.

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Next step: recreating the earthquake and fires of 1906.

I'm pretty sure you can't call that a replica.

He's added a few things.

>> ^sillma:

I'm pretty sure you can't call that a replica.

I'm pretty sure I'd let him call it any damn thing he wanted.

I love things that are as much art as it is engineering. But part of me wants to go Godzilla on it.

That is really cool, but 35 years? Wow.

Now that's what you call priceless, unrepeatable, and one of a kind.
I've seen this a few times over the years, but this still blows me away.

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Neato mosquito, but man what a waste of time...

Maybe I'm just jealous and wish I had that much free time to throw away.

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