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[jajdude]

Maybe you have heard of Oliver Sacks, the brilliant British neurologist.

Man who Mistook his wife for a Hat

Awakenings

etc..

Check out this video, hope it doesn't break up too much. (it's about 5 minutes long)

Believe me, it is worth a few minutes of your time.

And Oliver Sacks's books are worth hours of your time.


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2059140770740206037&q=oliver+sacks

[khyber]

don't know what he has to do with ollie sacks but...whoa.


damn

[jajdude]

Oliver Sacks is the narrator, and he also wrote about this guy, with pictures of his amazing drawings, in one of his books, "An Anthropologist on Mars" I believe. He got to meet some amazing people in his work.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

Amazing. The human brain has the potential to be capable of so much, yet I can't even remember where I put the remote control.

[SuperHero]

[coldcrush]

For every 10 idiot vidblogs (check youtube top subscribed list) there's a great video like this.

Awesome.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

That is the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

[jajdude]

Here's some details that accompany the video, in case you didn't read it.
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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.

He is an award winning artist with a truly amazing gift!

Stephen Wiltshire was born April 24, 1974 to West Indian parents in London, England. He was mute and at the age of three was diagnosed as an autistic. The same year his father died in a motorcycle accident. At the age of four, Stephen was sent to Queensmill School in London where he expressed interest in drawing. He began to communicate through his drawings. At the age of 8, he began to draw imaginary post-earthquake cityscapes and cars.

http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

Teacher Chris Marris begun to encourage his drawing and with his aid Wiltshire also slowly learned to speak at the age of 9.

At the age of ten, Wiltshire drew a series of pictures he called a "London Alphabet", a sequence of drawings of London landmarks, one for each letter.

When Wiltshire was part of a BBC programme The Foolish Wise Ones in 1987, viewers phoned in, expressing interest to buy his work. A collection of his works, named Drawings, was published that year.

Wiltshire has become a popular artist. He can look at a target once and then draw a very accurate and very detailed picture of it. He once drew the whole of central London after a helicopter trip above it. He can also make imaginary scenes like St. Paul's cathedral surrounded by flames.

In 2003, there was a major retrospective in the Orleans House gallery in Twickenham, London.

Stephen's work has since been the subject of many TV documentaries; neurologist Oliver Sacks writes about him in the chapter "Prodigies", in his book An Anthropologist on Mars.

His books include Drawings (1987), Cities (1989), Floating Cities (1991), and Stephen Wiltshire's American Dream (1993). His third book - Floating Cities (Michael Joseph, 1991) - was number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

In 2006, Stephen Wiltshire was awarded an MBE for services to art

[VanIslander]

I noticed nobody took the time to check his descriptions of the smaller buildings and side streets. Would've taken way too long. In fact, what took him a couple of days to draw would probably take a couple of guys weeks to check.

Amazing.

Not as evidence of what the brain is capable of, but as an indication of the sort of capacities that injuries and so-called "handicaps" develop. Like the other senses of a blind person.

What we define as normal is mediocrity.