3/1/09

Beautiful Minds: Stephen Wiltshire



Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic savant. In this YouTube, he draws a detailed aerial view of Rome from memory after a single trip in a helicopter above the city.

"...Stephen's work has...been the subject of numerous television programmes around the world...psychologist, Oliver Sacks, devoted an essay to Stephen in his book An Anthropologist On Mars (Picador 1995). Stephen is the only artistic autistic savant in the world whose work has been recorded and published since his childhood. His third book - Floating Cities (Michael Joseph, 1991) - was number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list." - Stephen Wiltshire Web Site.

Link Stephen Wiltshire Web Site

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