AUTISTIC ARTIST STEPHEN WILTSHIRE IS DRAWING NEW YORK FROM MEMORY

AUTISTIC ARTIST STEPHEN WILTSHIRE IS DRAWING NEW YORK FROM MEMORY

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Posted by phillis October 28, 2009 at 3:35 am

After just 20 minutes in a helicopter above the Manhattan skyline, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire was ready to re-create a city that took hundreds of years to build.

Wiltshire is drawing a 20-foot panoramic view of New York – all from memory. The 35-year-old artist’s autistic disorder affects his ability to interact with other people. It has also given him a photographic memory – and a gift for putting it on paper.

“I just looked without drawing,” said Wiltshire as he explained how he is able to draw the skyline without referring back to a photograph of the city.

“Everything is like a TV show,” he said. “I have never drawn from a sketchbook.”

Wiltshire, a Londoner, is creating the image at the Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn, where the public can watch him work through Friday afternoon.

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Just got Ellipse through the post :-) @imogenheap

Yay!

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Very tempting Spotify premium phone deal

Phone network 3 have just announced they will be bundling 24 months Spotify premium license in their phone contract in the near future.  Not only that but it will be available with the HTC Hero Android OS phone.  For someone who uses Google's services as much as I do this is a very tempting prospect :-)  The HTC Hero should be the perfect device for my needs - just a slight shame I have another 10 months on my current contract *boo!*.  I like my N95 8GB though, might just have to wait, unless anyone wants to take on my contract!  Also the price of the Hero will probably drop in a year.

More info here: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/28032/spotify-and-3-deal-confirmed

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Imogen Heap live on GMTV

Check it out guys - Imi plays First Train Home solo on GMTV

 

http://www.gm.tv/videos/live-performances/40188-imogen-heap-performs-first-train-home.html

 

 

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Jon's boomarang sunglasses

Ok, i haven't seen my sunglasses since Oct 4th. I was gutted when I lost them because they're REALLY good and i got them half price from Quicksilver. Bolle. So that's 14 days. I've probably driven 800-1000 miles in those 2 weeks but look at the photo and see where I found my glasses today.

I'm still in shock as to how that happened! Very pleased though :-)

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I've had a photo considered for Schmap?!?!

Anyone heard of this?  Seems to be some sort of tourist info site.  They found my photo on Flickr, and this is the one that interested them - it's for their Sheffield guide.

Bizarre.

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Awesome Google Maps / Twitter location / embedding nonsense!

I found this guy who made it easy to embed a Google Map showing your most recent Twitter location.  Awesome!  Gonna try and get this on my blog permanently - anyone know if it's possible to stick a particular blog post to the top of the screen / list?

 

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I mean, this does kick some serious ass!!

Thanks to Mibazaar for the good work.  His blog about it is here.

 

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My Signet

For my 18th birthday I was given a gold ring (courtesy of my Dad) which had been engraved with my signet, or at least one version of the many designs which could be created.  (Signet meaning your initials entwined in some artistic way).  I thought I it would be nice if I started using this little symbol more, because it's quite nice, and as I am creating a website I could use it as a logo or something.  So I opened up my trusty Professional Desktop Graphic Design package (Paint) and set to work!  See what you think :-)

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Chillies anyone?

This is almost the full harvest for this year I guess, there's just a few stragglers left just turning red. I think I've identified them as the Prairie Fire variety - unless any experts out there want to correct me? The chart i found rates them as HOT, but hey there only small...! Anyone want to count them for me?

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McDonald's catering for the disabled.

Somehow i don't think this is what's meant by disabled facilities.

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hmmm i have to learn this sheet of fly paper for Sunday! Not much time.

Stride piano is not my forte, if u excuse the pun.

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Ok, so Jenny flew to Georgia today (the ex-Soviet state not Atlanta, Georgia) to sing in a music festival there. It's a great honour that her choir was invited to go, I doubt any others from the UK will be there, and the Georgians are all amazing singers! That sounds ludicrous to say (!) but it seems to be a tradition over there. They have a song for everything: going to work, before meals, after meals, morning song, bedtime song, returning home from work song, and needless to say, drinking song. So all in all it will be an amazing experience.

Anyway, Jenny left me the details of the hotel she would be staying in (which I duly entered into my amazing synchronized calendar system so there would be no danger of me losing it) and so today I thought I'd check the place out on Google Maps.

This was the result:

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The more perceptive of you will have noticed that all the roads, and indeed everything else, disappears as it approaches the Georgian border. There could be 3 reasons for this:

1) there are no roads in Georgia (unlikely)

2) Google hasn't got around to mapping this area yet (given that they've finished all the surrounding areas I'd say also unlikely)

3) Google tried to map the area but all their staff were assassinated by Soviet secret agents.

(in case you were wandering neither of the search results were in fact the hotel in question)

I have heard from Jenny and everyone arrived safely and apparently their hosts are all extremely friendly (I guess they all are at first), but I shall be happier when she once again is homeward bound.

Georgian choir Samzeo have an amazingly original sound and their MySpace page has some great recordings - click here.