
Reblogged from this isn't happiness..
October 28, 2009, 1:16am
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.
October 28, 2009, 12:56am
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
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Calvin and Hobbes (via janettt) (via quote-book) (via tumbletumbleweed)
So, this is great for about 3 dozen reasons. Top of the list being that’s it reinforces the quiet simplistic and often sublime beauty of Bill Waterson’s brilliant strip. There’s such a delicate balance of things that it never fully breaks your heart but you can hear the ice that covers your grown-up cynical heart cracking just beneath your chest, and all you can do in the face of it is gasp back tears. Truly amazing.
October 27, 2009, 10:59pm
“I photographed this graffiti under an overpass near the Palo Alto Caltrain station. It’s a C++ program, called FUCKYOURMEMORY.c. Only in Silicon Valley”
October 09, 2009, 5:53pm
Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Transforms Pet into Carrying Case | FuncFash
October 07, 2009, 11:34am