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Stephen Wiltshire: the Human Camera
After my piece on Siena Ristorante yesterday, I found myself in an Italian state of mind, reminiscing about the days I lived in Rome working as a tour guide of the Forum and Colosseum. That walk down memory lane led me to think of this amazing outtake from a documentary about Stephen Wiltshire entitled “Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain.” The autistic British artist is known as the Human Camera. He has shown a remarkable ability to remember complex scenes and later draw them from memory. In this clip, you can see Wiltshire take a 45-minute helicopter flight over the Eternal City and then draw it to amazing detail from memory. Watch and be amazed. It may make you think for a second or two about the power of the human mind and how little we access it to its fullest potential. To see copies of Wiltshire’s work or purchase one of his prints, visit his Web site.
(Thanks to AYC for the link.)
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