Scott Weaver

Hope you all are having a fine 4th of July holiday. I was thinking this morning that many people have so many diverse hobbies. I like photography and blogging for a start. There are folks that are amazing and can transform their hobby into incredible art. You need to see what Scott Weaver can do with toothpicks! Check on the video at the end of this blog.

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, ping pong balls and the imagination collide. Thirty-four years ago, the Rohnert Park resident began gluing the tiny sticks together to form abstract structures. Then he started rolling ping pong balls around them. Soon he built a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge, then Lombard Street. Three thousand hours and 100,000 toothpicks later, Weaver’s whim has spiraled into a massive piece-de-resistance that includes every major landmark of the city that inspired it – and then some. “Rolling Through the Bay” is 9 feet tall, 7 feet wide and 2 feet deep. It sports four ping pong ball tracks with more than a dozen entry points. There’s the Golden Gate tour, which snakes through Chinatown and Aquatic Park and ends at the old Fleishhacker Pool. There’s the Cable Car tour, which travels past the painted ladies of Alamo Square into Golden Gate Park and onto the old Ferris wheel at Ocean Beach. There’s even a nod to the East Bay that features a BART train and the Bay Bridge. Look closely, though, and an even more detailed world appears. Surfers give the peace sign as they ride the waves near Ocean Beach. Two crabs are escaping from Fisherman’s Wharf. The tail of Humphrey the humpback whale splashes by the bay. “Rolling through the Bay” has survived four homes, an earthquake, and Trooper, one of Weaver’s four Great Danes who once obliterated Fisherman’s Wharf with a swipe of his tail. His sculpture has already dazzled crowds at the Sonoma County Fair and will be on display at the state fair come August. It’s also caught the attention of Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum, which has offered $40,000 for the piece. But Weaver isn’t willing to part with it just yet. He says he hopes to find a home for it in San Francisco one day – “that’s where it belongs,” he says – but until then, his wife, Rochelle, will have to deal with a giant guest in the living room.

To go to learn more about Scott Weaver, click on his site below.

http://rollingthroughthebay.com/index.html

Now for the video.