stephen wiltshire - an incredible talent

Can't get your links to work.

mmm - not sure why - they work when I check them but here they are for you to copy and paste if the live links won't work

http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/ for gallery images

http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/wiltshire.cfm for a video link on the right of the screen which shows brilliantly how he works and his incredible memory.


edit - I just copied and pasted these without using the URL link - and they are still 'live' so hope they work!

The links work OK for me.

Like you, Vivien, I have admired his work for years. Isn't it amazing how the brain compensates, or re-wires itself somehow. It makes you wonder whether we ALL have this little compartment in the brain, that provides some sort of photographic memory.

I watched a programme years ago, when he was sitting at the top of a tall building in London with a pencil and easel. He lifted his head and visually scanned the City's horizon for about twenty seconds, looked at the paper and started sketching. He didn't look up again until he had completed about half of the detail.

Mind boggling!

I've seen - via BBC World and BBC Prime and on German tv - those/similar tv reports. Really amazing.

A report with additional links

that's the same link as my second one Walter! I loved the split screen stuff they did in the video.

Yes, Lord E I saw that programme too and was amazed - I seem to remember one where he went up in the London Eye and then did an amazing set of drawings.

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