Stephen Wiltshire draws Tokyo from memory

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One of Stephen's extraordinary abilities is to memorize landscapes up to the highest detail. During this flight he had a thorough look at the view of the Japanese capital from the helicopter including thousands of buildings, towers, high-ways, cars, buses, even down to intricate details of trees and windows. Following the 30 minutes ride Stephen seemed to be very excited and ready for the challenge.

Channel: Film & Animation
Uploaded: October 2, 2006 at 3:57 am
Author: stephenwiltshire

Length: 00:07:20
Rating: 4.86
Views: 499344

Tags: stephen wiltshire tokyo panorama memory drawing autistic savant

Video Comments:
forgotmypassword3 (November 16, 2008 at 9:34 pm)
how could you say that he's stuck in a world of his own? he sees the world perfectly.
bedsandbellies (November 16, 2008 at 6:36 am)
How can he do what we can all do?What makes him so different.How does his mind connect with his senses?Can he himself explain his own creativity?Is this a family trait or does he express any other intellectual affluences?
What a beautiful Mind but when he looks at his tapestry of Toyko does he distinguish the six days of time between his starter locations or see the scape as just one frieze of light at the same time?
freedfighter96 (November 15, 2008 at 10:25 pm)
This is awsome and wuts the song?
Y2K38 (November 8, 2008 at 10:48 pm)
i think this guy has photographic memory
permarker (November 18, 2008 at 6:37 am)
oh really??
DinkyMax (November 6, 2008 at 6:22 pm)
Well he's been there for 7 days, he lost notion of time a bit for the date...but DAMN that dude is crazy...how can he memorize all this...it's unbelievable
fad0881 (November 11, 2008 at 1:44 am)
memorize is one thing, recalling it is one thing.. drawing it is one thing and have the patience on it is the last thing that i possibly could not have lol... Amazing.. how beautiful the mind is.
MaTt3MaD (November 6, 2008 at 3:57 pm)
this guy is amazing and one great artist
mezztubex (November 6, 2008 at 7:53 am)
moreover he draws very well!!
yalc183 (October 30, 2008 at 1:34 pm)
I like how he can draw that whole thing from
memory and then at the end almost forget the
date lol this guy is amazing.