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  YouTube - Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire from London is a star among s...
Stephen Wiltshire from London is a star among savants.
Stephen Wiltshire: the human camera now is in japan!
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  Wisconsin Medical Society - Savant Profile, Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen started attending Queensmill, a school in London for children with special needs, at the age of five, as an extremely withdrawn and almost mute child.
While Stephen had always liked to listen to music, and to sing, always in tune and often imitating other great singers, to his music teacher's surprise it was discovered Stephen had perfect pitch and considerable talent as a musical savant with some of the innate sense of the 'rules of music' characteristic of such savants.
Savant artist Stephen Wiltshire has now opened his own gallery in London where he will be resident three days per week.
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  Stephen Wiltshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen Wiltshire MBE, (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder.
Stephen Wiltshire was born April 24, 1974 to West Indian parents in London, England.
Stephen's work has since been the subject of many TV documentaries; neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about him in the chapter "Prodigies" of his book in his book An Anthropologist On Mars.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Stephen Wiltshire   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder.
Stephen Wiltshire is a 'savant' and it is clear from the gallery introduction that this is a form of autism.
Stephen's drawings are indeed an expression of a unique vision, which is unobtainable to most people, and his drawings therefore have a slightly eerie quality.
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 Stephen Wiltshire: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist artist quick summary:
Stephen Wiltshire was born April 24 1974 to West Indian parents in London London quick summary:
When Wiltshire was part of a BBC programme The foolish Wise Ones in 1987, EHandler: no quick summary.
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 Henry Boxer Gallery presents Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire has been the subject of numerous documentaries and one man exhibitions since his discovery in the 1980's when he was nine.
Stephen is an autistic savant whose gifts include the ability to retain virtual photographic memory recall of people and places, this enables him to draw, with near perfect accuracy, representations of city skylines and architectural scenes.
Stephen likes to work both on small and large scale, some of these extraordinary drawings measure over 9ft in length, others such as on this webpage are much smaller, and somehow more intimate.
www.outsiderart.co.uk /wiltshire.htm   (142 words)

  
 Stephen Wiltshire - Autism Wiki - Living with autism, personal stories, questions.
Stephen Wiltshire (born 1974) is an autistic savant who was diagnosed with autism when he was three year old.
The drawing was remarkable and complete with all the details as Stephen Wiltshire had seen the same exactly at 11:20.
Stephen Wiltshire — who was born with severe speech difficulties — is one of those rockets...
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Stephen responded by making sounds and eventually uttered his first word - "paper." He learned to speak fully at the age of nine.
Stephen was introduced by Sir Hugh Casson (past president of the Royal Academy), who described him as "the best child artist in Britain".
Stephen's work has since been the subject of numerous television programmes around the world, and the writer and psychologist, Oliver Sacks, has devoted an essay to Stephen in his book An Anthropologist On Mars (Picador 1995).
www.rcmautismnotebook.com /StephenWiltshire.html   (443 words)

  
 Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera - AOL Video
Stephen Wiltshire's panoramic memory drawing of the City of Rome.
Stephen Wiltshire is a savant who is reknown for his ability to use his mind as a hum...
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.
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 The Stephen Wiltshire Gallery - Drawings, paintings and prints
Stephen`s recent documentary shown on Channel Five in the UK has been acquired by 12 media networks around the globe.
Stephen Wiltshire was born in London to West Indian parents on 24th April, 1974.
Stephen is the only artistic autistic savant in the world whose work has been recorded and published since his childhood.
www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk   (818 words)

  
 Autistic Savant: The Camera Man Stephen Wiltshire
At age of ten Stephen drew what he called a "London Alphabet," a group of drawings from Albert Hall to the London Zoo with structures such as the House of Parliament and The Imperial War Museum in between.
Stephen started attending Queensmill, a school in London for children with special needs, at the age of five, as an extremely withdrawn and almost mute child.
While Stephen had always liked to listen to music, and to sing, always in tune and often imitating other great singers, to his music teacher's surprise it was discovered Stephen had perfect pitch and considerable talent as a musical savant with some of the innate sense of the 'rules of music' characteristic of such savants.
autisticsavant.blogspot.com /2007/04/camera-man-stephen-wiltshire.html   (1056 words)

  
 Gridskipper: Sketching the City: Savant Artist Stephen Wiltshire
From an incredibly young age, the only way Wiltshire could communicate was via his drawings; diagnosed with autism, he turned inside to his own sketched-out world.
Wiltshire prefers to catch some height in order to sketch; standing at the top of a skyscraper, or seated in a helicopter, Wiltshire uses an aerial outlook to show us the fragility of the cities we stomp around in.
Though Wiltshire has only visited New York three times, he proclaims it his favorite city of the hundreds he's seen, and he returns again and again to his New York memories.
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 Stephen wiltshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Stephen Wiltshire, the human camera who drew London from memory - Telegraph
Flying in a helicopter along the Thames, Stephen Wiltshire memorised the appearance and position of hundreds of London's buildings.
Wiltshire, 33, told the television channel Five - which charted the challenge for its documentary, Extraordinary People: The Human Camera, that he was "thrilled" with the result.
Wiltshire was awarded an MBE for his services to art in 2006 and has his own gallery on Pall Mall, central London.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/uknews/1583604/Stephen-Wiltshire,-the-human-camera-who-drew-London-from-memory.html   (442 words)

  
 Watching: Stephen wiltshire person of the week | Preschoolers Videos
Stephen wowed the viewers with a quick sketch of Piccadilly Circus after a 10 minutes glimpse of the landmark.
Stephen Wiltshire draws Madrid on a five meter canvas from memory following a short helicopter ride over the city.
Stephen Wiltshire draws Madrid skyline on a 5 meter long canvas from memory within three days.
www.etriagonal.com /watch/WNfDikR2-fU/stephenwiltshire/stephen-wiltshire-person-of-the-week.html   (288 words)

  
 lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, concept art and other visual arts » ...
Stephen Wiltshire is a autistic savant with a seemingly innate skill for drawing.
There are also similar but less dramatic videos from demonstrations in other cities in the Television section of Wiltshire’s site, in which he demonstrates a similar reliable ability to retain and draw large amounts of visual information with great detail.
At the very least, the abilities of someone like Stephen Wiltshire should give us a hint that we may all be able to train ourselves to see just a little bit more when we’re drawing, or even when we’re just walking down the street.
www.linesandcolors.com /2006/02/11/stephen-wiltshire-memory-drawing   (1780 words)

  
 Revealed: How autistic genius Stephen Wiltshire drew his amazing picture of London's skyline | Mail Online
The quite remarkable talents of the London-born artist Stephen Wiltshire, who was awarded an MBE for his "services to art" two years ago, are to be celebrated this week in a television documentary about extraordinary people.
You'll see that it is significantly lower in Wiltshire's drawing than it is in real life, just as you'll notice that he has deliberately moved a tower block away from the left side of the Gherkin, and that he's shifted the Post Office Tower significantly, as well as increasing the size of St Paul's Cathedral.
Wiltshire may not be in the Damien Hirst class when it comes to making millions from his work, but he is nevertheless a successful artist now, who gets commissions from around the world.
www.mailonsunday.co.uk /news/article-557942/Revealed-How-autistic-genius-Stephen-Wiltshire-drew-amazing-picture-Londons-skyline.html   (2541 words)

  
 FLOATING CITIES STEPHEN WILTSHIRE te koop aangeboden op Speurders.nl
Stephen Wiltshire, who was described by Sir Hugh Casson as 'possibly the best child artist in Britain' is autistic.
His genius was brought to the public's attention when he featured in a BBC QED documentary on autistic children in 1987.
For a child who was once locked within the prisonhouse of his own private world, unable to speak, incapable of responding to others, this thrilling development of language, laughter and art is a miracle.
www.speurders.nl /boeken/kunstenfoto/25165133/floating_cities_stephen_wiltshire.html   (626 words)

  
 Erebos.org » Blog Archive » Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire est un artiste britannique atteint de ce que l’on appelle un autisme de haut niveau (ou autisme sans déficience intellectuelle).
Many visitors had taken to their hearts the young teenager who had appeared in the 1987 BBC documentary The Foolish Wise Ones, but few knew what had happened to him since and how he had grown and flourished as an artist.
In the autumn of 2006, Stephen opened his very own successful gallery in the heart of London and visits there twice a week to meet the public.
blog.erebos.org /2006/05/03/stephen-wiltshire   (524 words)

  
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Stephen Wiltshire's pen and ink drawings are fantastic.
Stephen, no matter what level of autism he seems to possess, he has truly mastered and captured the gracefullness of each buillding that he draws.
Stephen Wiltshire actually is Autistic,operating on a six year old level for most of his adult life.
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 ABC News: Stephen Wiltshire's Photographic Memory
People tell artist Stephen Wiltshire that his work is brilliant.
Wiltshire is autistic, and his first words came when he was 5 years old.
Wiltshire has only visited New York City three times, yet remembers it vividly.
abcnews.go.com /WN/story?id=4299235   (296 words)

  
 Telegraph | Picture Gallery | STEPHEN WILTSHIRE: THE HUMAN CAMERA
A highly detailed panorama of London that an autistic artist drew from memory is to be unveiled in a new documentary about him
Stephen Wiltshire, 33, memorised the appearance and position of hundreds of buildings during a 15-minute helicopter flight down the Thames
Stephen was awarded an MBE for his services to art in 2006 and has his own gallery on Pall Mall in central London
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During this flight he had a thorough look at the view of the Japanese capital from the helicopter including thousands of buildings, towers, high-ways, cars, buses, even down to intricate details of trees and windows.
Following the 30 minutes ride Stephen seemed to be very excited and ready for the challenge.
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 Tokyo and Stephen Wiltshire (vudeja.com)
I just caught a short documentary on Stephen Wiltshire, one of a very short list of prodigious savants who possesses the extraordinary ability of being able to study urban landscapes and sketch them from memory in great, almost Where's Waldo detail.
For the show, Stephen was invited to Tokyo and spent 30 minutes taking in 360 degrees of Tokyo skyline from the roof top (270 meters up) of Roppongi Hills.
He was then provided a 360 degree 10 meter wide canvas, a box of pencils and pens, and in seven days had completed what was a remarkably accurate panorama of the Tokyo skyline.
www.vudeja.com /05/06/tokyo-stephen-wiltshire   (217 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Floating Cities: Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad-And Moscow: Books: Stephen Wiltshire   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Stephen, no matter what level of autism he seems to possess, he has truly mastered and captured the gracefullness of each buillding that he draws.
Stephen Wiltshire actually is Autistic,operating on a six year old level for most of his adult life.
They are absolutely fantastic renditions of famous buildings, made more incredible by the fact that Stephen himself has this overwhelming disability, and many of them were done by memory.
www.amazon.ca /Floating-Cities-Venice-Amsterdam-Leningrad/dp/0671755684   (561 words)

  
 Stephen Wiltshire, the living camera - Autistic savant draws perfect Rome - on Bore M...
Stephen Wiltshire, the living camera - Autistic savant draws perfect Rome - on Bore M...
Info: Stephen Wiltshire MBE, (born 1974) is an accomplished architectural artist who has been diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorder.
Stephen's interests are: earthquakes, cars, and architecture, in that order.
www.boreme.com /boreme/funny-2006/rome-drawing-p1.php   (263 words)

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