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tektek
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20 Dec 2009, 8:51 pm

Hi all,

watching the latest episode in the current season of Top Gear (season 14, episode 5) i was pleased to see that Stephen Wiltshire was featured as part of the Top Gear team's effort to bring art of the motoring variety to the Mima Gallery in Middlesbrough. :)


Stephen Wiltshire's website page for television appearances (click)

Photograph of Stephen Wiltshire and Jeremy Clarkson (click)

Mima Gallery website (click)


...and something from a little while ago that never ceases to amaze me

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95L-zmIBGd4[/youtube]


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20 Dec 2009, 10:26 pm

That is awesome.



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20 Dec 2009, 11:06 pm

Wiltshire is AWESOME! :D


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21 Dec 2009, 12:23 am

Stephen is a one-of-a-kind savant! Very proud he's featured 8) And to show Autism can be positive. Without, we wouldn't have our beautiful art, not to mention advances in science (e.g., Theory of Relativity, Gravity, Poincare Conjecture solved, robotics, diamagnetics, etc). And our Wrong Planet inhabitants :D


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21 Dec 2009, 12:59 am

^ hi labpet! :)

stephen wiltshire has phenomenal skills.
The human camera strikes again!


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22 Dec 2009, 8:48 am

yes, human camera. nothing more nothing less



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22 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm

He was somewhat cool - even Jeremy Clarkson sounded impressed.

And I still think James May is one of us :)


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28 Dec 2009, 9:55 pm

iceb wrote:
He was somewhat cool - even Jeremy Clarkson sounded impressed.


I know, right?

Easily one of my favorite shows on television (even though I only get the edited-for-commercials episodes that air on BBC America) even though I have very little interest in cars. Nice to know that Wiltshire was on there.


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28 Dec 2009, 10:09 pm

jessieclipse wrote:
yes, human camera. nothing more nothing less


Not true. He's done some other work as well, and he started out doing cityscapes as he imagined them after an earthquake.


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