斯蒂芬·威尔特希尔难以置信的“活相机”.docVIP

斯蒂芬·威尔特希尔难以置信的“活相机” 　　如果让你搭乘直升飞机绕城观看一圈，你能记下所有建筑物并把它们画出来吗？当然不可能啦！人的大脑怎么可能在这么短的时间内记住这么多信息！即使是每天经过的街道，我们也不一定能记住其中的细节。但来自英国的斯蒂芬·威尔特希尔却拥有这种非凡的能力。这位英国画家从小患有自闭症，却具有惊人的记忆力。在一个陌生的城市，他只要转一圈，就可以像电脑一样把街景建筑全都储存在脑中，再用画笔还原出来。自2005年以来，斯蒂芬·威尔特希尔画过东京、罗马、香港、纽约、迪拜、伦敦等城市。下面就让我们一起见证这一奇迹的诞生吧。 　　Stephen Wiltshire， from London， is a star among savants. His nickname is “The Living Camera.” Stephen is autistic. He lives in a world of his own. Communication is difficult for him. He didn’t speak his first words， “pencil” and “paper，” until he was five. Yet when he was 11， he drew a perfect aerial view of London after only one helicopter ride. Even the number of windows in all the major buildings in his drawing was correct. 　　For this film， we’re testing “The Living Camera” in Rome. Stephen has never seen “the Eternal City” from above before. After only a 45-minute helicopter flight， we’ll ask him to draw a five and a half yard panoramic picture of the historic city centre without having a second glance at it. Stephen has three days. In these three days， Stephen will have to keep thousands of details in his head： the innumerable cupolas， the tiny winding streets， all the balconies and windows of the endless array of houses， and each and every column and window arch of Rome’s major sites， from the Pantheon to St. Peter’s to the Coliseum. 　　Stephen has never trained for this feat of magic； the miracle simply happened when he first started to draw. Yet none of us would have bet that Stephen would be able to draw Rome just from memory. Five and a half yards of paper can look scarily empty. The amazing thing， Stephen starts the drawing as we would， with the Church of St. Peter’s. But he doesn’t do any sketches nor roughing out of the space for the drawing. It’s as if the panorama already existed within his head with all the proportions， all the roads， all the details. A little miracle. 　　At the end of the second day， Stephen is a good halfway through his creation. After three days of his drawing