Stan Munro has been a “toothpick engineer” since 2005. He knows it’s quite weird, but if you’ve ever seen a toothpick structure somewhere on the internet, odds are it’s one of his pieces. “I have put ...
Stan Munro built the Washington Monument in a day. The Vatican took almost three months. Munro will be working at the MOST this week. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sunday. Admission is ...
BROCKTON – To most people, the simple toothpick is a useful cocktail garnish holder and teeth cleaner. In the hands of artist Stan Munro, it’s the perfect building material for landmark monuments, ...
Stan Munro has constructed awe-inspiring replicas of iconic structures from around the world He has used huge resources of time, energy, and ingenuity, along with literally millions of toothpicks and ...
In Hastings, Minnesota, you’ll find a built-to-scale replica of the original Dakota County Courthouse made from about 5,000 perfectly placed toothpicks. The artist? 85-year-old Jerry Hackett. The ...
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 ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --A Shakopee man has never been to the Space Needle or the Eiffel Tower, but he's helped build them both, in much smaller form. It was a way for Jerry Hackett to pass the time in ...
Students built toothpick structures, made flubber and created devices to keep an egg intact after a two-story fall during a four-day Northeastern Junior College Kids College Project Science class last ...
Every winter, the longtime Marion resident would spend months making complex structures like the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or a cruise ship. But instead of drawing, painting, or ...