Saturday, October 31, 2009

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire draws 18ft picture of New York from memory

I guess you all are familiar with Heroes..The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives.


Anyone remember at season one, there's a character named Isaac Mendez, the tortured artist who can paint the future. Such artist really exist in the world, BUT this real life artist is not painting the future.


This artist can paint whole New York city after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.



The astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire. The unbelievably intricate picture was drawn with details of every building sketched in to scale.


Landmarks including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building can be seen towering above smaller buildings after just three days in his spellbinding creation.


Listening intently to his ipod throughout the artistic process - because music helps him - London-born Stephen uses only graphic pens as he commits his photographic memory to the high-grade paper.


Stephen sketches his layout in pencil first and then scales it within the border, first adding in landmarks before filling out in more intricate detail.

Going through up to 12 pens during his sketches which can take a week to finish, Stephen also draws heavily on music which he carries everywhere.



Saturday, October 17, 2009

Real life POPEYE...horrible arm

Boasting muscles a superhero would be proud of, Matthias Schlitte has good reason to be considered the toast of the German arm wrestling circuit

But a closer look reveals that only ONE of his arms is bestowed with bulging biceps.

The 22-year-old’s whopping right forearm measures nearly 18in – and is in stark contrast to his puny left arm.



Despite its odd appearance, Matthias’s Popeye-esque limb has strong-armed him into first place in a host of competitions, including the Iron Curtain Armwars in Blackburn and the German Championships in Haltern, this year.


Matthias, who has been involved in the sport since he was 16, said: ‘Many people’s first association with arm wrestling is a beer-soaked bar-table and drunken sailors – which is completely wrong


‘Without any knowledge or practise I competed in the amateur-class up to 90kg – being only 16 years old with a weight of 65kg


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