Caterpillar Cowboy

section9:

scottfriday:

somehowsomeway:

maybeitsallok:

“British artist Stephen Wiltshire is currently attempting to draw the Manhattan skyline from memory. since Monday October 26th. Wiltshire began filling in an 18 foot canvas at the Pratt institute, Brooklyn. The drawing is expected to be complete by Friday. You can follow his progress through the live webcam here.

Wiltshire diagnosed with autism at the age of three displays an unusually powerful
photographic memory that he has applied to rendering city scapes. He can look at the subject of his drawing once and reproduce it accurately with photographic detail, down to the exact number of columns or windows on a building. He memorizes their shapes, locations and the architecture.”

quoted from design boom

:O

wesley willis used to do this. i had a t-shirt of one of his drawings in which he drew, from memory, a shipyard full of industrial shipping crates including their various logos and item numbers.

i’m fascinated by this type of thing.

Simply wow.