(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 ...

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 ...

Scott Weaver has spent a? sizable chunk of his ?58 years on Earth bonding toothpicks with Elmer’s glue. “It is so tedious,” he affirmed at his longtime home in Rohnert Park. Yet, he can’t stop.

Syracuse, N.Y. -- Stan Munro left the video camera on his iPhone running in hopes of capturing his wife, Suzi, as she arrived at his new Toothpick World display at Destiny USA. But that wasn't what he ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (UPI) -- A San Francisco artist has marked the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking by creating a model of the doomed liner from a single toothpick. Stephen J. Backman ...

One man, one calculator, and more than 100,000 toothpicks. When Scott Weaver started making his colossal toothpick sculpture, "Rolling Through the Bay," it was the 1970s and Nixon was in office.

To most people, a toothpick is just a toothpick - a primitive implement to clean your teeth or use as an accessory in a rap video. But for Huntley artist Cesar Vega, toothpicks are a medium - the ...

A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...

There's one reason why this model ship will, er, stick in your mind. It's made entirely from toothpicks. Artist Wayne Kusy, 50, of Chicago spends years painstakingly piecing together the fiddly sticks ...