100,000 toothpicks

November 25th, 2011 • Add comments

This kinetic sculpture by Scott Weaver makes me feel like a small kid again but that could be because this sculpture is of epic proportion and consists of insane minute detail – taking 35 years to complete it uses 100,000 toothpicks from across the world to create a series of tracks for ping pong balls to venture through.

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