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Steven Perez
About New York - Artist Stephen Wiltshire Recreates New York From Memory - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
October 28, 2009
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Lo the Baker, Iván Abrego, Lindsay and 2 other people liked this
"In a helicopter above the city on Friday, Stephen Wiltshire of London looked down at the streets and sprawl of New York. He flew for 20 minutes. Since then, working only from the memory of that sight, he has been sketching and drawing a mighty panorama of the city, rendering the city’s 305 square miles along an arc of paper that is 19 feet long. He is working publicly in a gallery at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. “I always memorize by helicopter,” he said on Tuesday, pausing from detailing the corners of a street on the Brooklyn side of the Williamsburg Bridge."
- Steven Perez
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I watched a program of him doing London. Fantastic gift.
- Spidra Webster
That is really cool! I wonder how accurate his drawings are. Amazing.
- Lindsay
On the program I watched, they checked his accuracy. It was uncanny.
- Spidra Webster
I had the city wrong. It was Rome. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Spidra Webster
I love the last line of the article "panoramic smile"
- SAM