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A Givenchy dress worn by Mrs. Kennedy during a 1958 photo shoot in Hyannis Port.
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Betty Ford wore this chiffon gown at the state dinner honoring President Kekkonen of Finland. Designed by Albert Capraro, the floor-length dress features a two layered sandstone-stripe design.
Mrs. Ford paired the gown with the "Collar of St. Arsene," which First Lady Jehan Sadat of Egypt had given to her as a state gift on October 27, 1975. The necklace, made of gold-plated silver and cut glass, dates to the pre-Arabic Roman period.
Albert Capraro was one of Betty Ford's favorite designers during her time in the White House. Capraro previously had worked for Oscar de la Renta before striking out as an independent designer. Mrs. Ford admired his clothing and also appreciated that it was designed and made in the United States.
Capraro described working with Mrs. Ford as a joy. "She is warm and charming, and she knows what she wants," he said. Here he adjusts her collar during a consultation at the White House on February 21, 1975.
Grace Kelly was born on this day, November 12, in 1929. Here she is during a visit to the White House. President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosted a luncheon in honor of Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace of Monaco on May 24, 1961.
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Harvey Rosenthal makes a final adjustment to President Ford's tie at the end of a fitting at the White House on October 30, 1974.
Rosenthal began fitting clothes for Ford in the late 1960s. "We've been trying to change his image," he stated in an interview in August 1975, noting that both he and Betty Ford had been urging the President to "go conservative" with his style.
His efforts to update President Ford's wardrobe included substituting plaid suits and splashy ties with more subdued items. "It has to be plain blue, plain gray, brown. I try to make him look like a president," Rosenthal said.
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A Fashion Friday salute to one of the staples of 1970s menswear — the leisure suit.
President Ford wore this one to a surprise drop-by at a spaghetti dinner for reporters and staff who traveled aboard Air Force 2 with him when he was Vice President, hosted by New York Times correspondent Marjorie Hunter, on October 18, 1975.
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Check out JFK's seemingly quiet outfit choice, until you see his shoes (and yes, he is feeding a real deer!).
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First Ladies Fashion
Betty Ford donated one of her gowns to the First Ladies Hall at the Smithsonian on June 24, 1976. Betty is pictured here with Frankie Welch, the gown's designer (at left), and S. Dillon Ripley, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
The princess line dress was produced at Ms. Welch's studio in Alexandria, Virginia. Made from a pale green chiffon crepe embroidered with chrysanthemums that simulates fabric the First Lady had brought home from China, it also features a Chinese inspired high standing collar. Mrs. Ford had worn the gown at a few state functions, including White House dinners for the Shah of Iran and King Juan Carlos II of Spain.
"I'm delighted to have one of my favorite dresses in this very special collection," Mrs. Ford said in her remarks. "When I brought visitors to this Hall, never in my wildest dreams did I expect to ever be here myself."
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Bullet Proof Coat
This beige coat worn by President Gerald R. Ford was designed not only to keep him warm and dry but also to protect his life.
This coat came with a bullet-proof vest liner along with more standard features like the six front buttons, adjustable sleeve cuffs, and pockets accessible from the inside. The zip-up bullet-proof vest is made of Kevlar and is covered with cloth identical in color to the coat. Together both pieces weigh 6 lbs., 15 oz.
A label sewn onto the front of the vest provides cleaning instructions and gives an issue date of October 1975, the month after President Ford survived two assassination attempts during separate trips to California.
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As a teenager growing up during the Depression, Betty Ford worked as a department model on Saturdays to earn money. "I would wander through Herpolsheimer's tearoom wearing an outfit from stock, and ladies at the tables would stop me" to ask about the clothes and where to find them, she later recalled.
When Betty returned to Grand Rapids in the 1940s she found work at Herpolsheimer's again, this time as a fashion coordinator. She trained models to show clothes and organized the Saturday fashion shows in the tearoom that she had previously modeled in.
Here she and her mother-in-law Dorothy Gardner Ford visit the Herpolisheimer's Department store in July 1949.
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eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), the California-based online retailing company and payments leader, had a stellar 2012. eBay's revenue jumped to $14.1 billion in 2012, an increase of 21% over the previous year. In my opinion, the company can continue its string of amazing performances going forward. Let's see why.
Expansion of PayPal
In accordance with its plan to expand PayPal, eBay is partnering with Discover Financial Services and according to the deal, PayPal will be accepted as a payment option in almost 2 million retail stores that already accept Discover credit cards. This arrangement is expected to be officially launched on April 19.
PayPal, which contributes about 40% to eBay's revenue, is crucial for eBay and its expansion is essential for the growth of eBay. Since physical payments are a bigger market than online transactions, this expansion could produce long-term growth for PayPal.
PayPal's strategy with this deal is to give U.S. shoppers an alternate mode of payment, and reduce their habit of swiping credit or debit cards in stores. For this strategy to succeed, PayPal needs to convince customers that a single digital wallet or card like PayPal that links to all their other cards is easier to operate than swiping multiple cards in stores. PayPal will be releasing a smartphone app that will make it simpler for customers to operate.
eBay banking on commerce revolution
eBay has outlined its three-year growth strategies to use mobile technologies to drive business and growth. eBay is banking on a mobile led "commerce revolution" to drive strong growth in its Marketplaces, PayPal, and GSI Commerce businesses.
Commenting on the commerce revolution, eBay President and CEO, John Donahoe, said "Technology is creating a new web-enabled retail interface, a new seamless, multiscreen commerce experience that connects consumers anytime, anywhere. This will expand shopping beyond conventional store environments and e-commerce sites. How we shop is being transformed, and eBay intends to be a leader in this new commerce world."
eBay expects to enable $300 billion of global commerce by 2015 as compared to $175 billion in 2012. eBay is also planning to expand into emerging markets, particularly the BRIC (Brazil, India, Russia, and China) countries.
Strong financials
eBay reported good financials for the year 2012. Revenue increased 21% to $14.1 billion in 2012. Non-GAAP net income for 2012 was $3.1 billion, an increase of 16% over the previous year. The net income per diluted share was $2.36. Talking about the segments, PayPal's mobile payment volume reached $14 billion in 2012, up more than 250% over 2011.
This growth is attributed to the increase in the number of consumers using smartphones and tablets to pay online. Revenue for the fourth quarter 2012 increased to $4 billion, an increase of 18% over the same period of 2011.
Source: eBay Inc. Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2012 Results
Stock analysis
eBay's stock is strong and trading around $57. The stock is trading near its 52-week high of $57.26. The stock has returned about 56% over the past 12 months. The spectacular growth of the stock can be attributed to the solid financial performance of eBay in 2012.
Comparison with competitors
When compared with its competitors, Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), eBay has shown a better performance as the company's profit margins and capital return metric are above the peer averages. eBay's operating margin of 0.21 ttm is better than Amazon's 0.01 ttm. eBay's EBITDA is also better than that of Amazon for the previous year.
In Payments, eBay competes with Google, Square, Intuit GoPayment, etc. Amazon is the major competitor in the e-commerce domain.
Competing with PayPal, Square is a mobile payments start-up which is used by more than 300,000 merchants. Last year, Square signed a deal with Starbucks. PayPal is banking on its new smartphone app in order to drive growth.
Amazon provides mobile payment service through Amazon MPS. Amazon MPS is optimized for different mobile phones, enabling customers to make payments conveniently from any mobile device.
Google provides mobile payment processing service through Google Wallet. Google Wallet enables users to store debit cards, credit cards, offers, etc. on their Android phones. It uses near field communication (NFC) to make secure payments by tapping the phone on any PayPass-enabled terminal at checkout. Google Wallet replaced Google Checkout, as it competes directly with PayPal.
eBay is growing strongly. Its expansion into emerging markets as well as the growth in PayPal's revenue due to greater smartphone penetration will drive its growth. PayPal's growth will be driven by expansion through smartphone apps. eBay expects revenue to grow over 50% to $21.5 billion in 2015, up from $14.1 billion in 2012. Thus, the outlook for eBay is positive.
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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel released a report Friday, saying officials retaliated against four employees who sought to expose wrongdoing. The report found that in one case, a senior Air Force attorney who reviewed a plan to fire one of the whistleblowers found that "it is almost certain that any reviewing authority would conclude any such discipline was reprisal/retaliation."
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The weekend of Christmas last year, a health-care reform bill made its way through the Senate, but what that would mean for the eventual character of any final health-care and -insurance reform bill remained unclear.
The Senate bill did not include a full government-run option for health insurance in the insurance purchasing exchanges it enables, which was a disappointment to Illinois-based bulk tank owner-operator Ray Lawson, leased to Superior Carriers. Lawson, now in his early 50s, has seen his health insurance premium go from a monthly $350 some 10 years ago to more than $900 today.
That rate of cost increase has been matched by only one other cost relevant to his business: fuel. And by some estimates the rate of increase for medical and insurance expenses nationwide has been the greater.
"All those years," Lawson says, "I've only had one major thing done — my appendix was taken out five years ago. It cost me $7,000 out of pocket on a total $23,000 bill. All the visits and follow-up care I had to pay 100 percent." Since then, he adds, medical costs and his insurance coverage has changed to the point that "if I had the appendix operation today I couldn't afford to get it done."
Opinion in the driver community was not on track with Lawson's feelings about the need for the particular variety of reform being proposed. In December, 70 percent of respondents to an eTrucker.com poll indicated they were opposed to congressional efforts.
Instead of a public option, the Senate version included opportunity for insurers to offer a nationally regulated private plan to compete in the otherwise state-regulated health-insurance industry, as well as boosted funds for community health centers. Experts and other commentators agreed that, at the least, the final bill would look more like the Senate's than the House's.
Lawson speculated that the driver community's opposition to reform legislation could be seen as a function of company drivers' lack of understanding of the cost pressure the current health-insurance and -care situation puts on independent owner-operators and trucking businesses of all sizes.
While company drivers' paycheck-deducted contributions to their companies' health-insurance plans, such as they exist, have undoubtedly risen in recent years with other American workers', Lawson says, "I think a lot of workers don't understand. Nothing's free. If a corporation is paying $1,000 a month for an employee's insurance, that's $1,000 they don't have for raises or just to keep the doors open. It does affect everyone. That's why I have some kind of a vested interest in a public option in this health-care thing. There doesn't seem to be a lot of competition. I'm thinking that if they get something passed halfway decent, it'll help all small businesses."
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Authors and reengineering consultants Michael Hammer and James Champy begin their book rather defensively by insisting that reengineering is not merely a forgotten fad of the 1990s. And they may be right, particularly given their insistence that companies must be totally, absolutely willing to discard the old and replace it with the new. The authors make dramatic claims for the potential of reengineering, and highlight interesting victories - such as Kodak, a company rarely cited as an example of success. The book presents reengineering as a simple, straightforward way to view business processes, figure out how to make them more rational and economical, and then implement necessary changes. The authors made a splash by labeling this approach as reengineering in the 1990s. The term became a euphemism for firing people in droves, then fell into discredit. This update may be intended to rescue the concept from its bad image, but it doesn't quite succeed. In the new millennium, companies deal with complex, costly processes by outsourcing them, yet the word "outsourcing" does not yet appear in this book's index. Such time lags aside, getAbstract.com finds this business landmark well worth reading. After all, it's the management Bible of the '90s. Many of its hoary old verities still have the ring of truth.
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In the NFC Division Wildcard, you must account for the Seattle Seahawks'Äô MEAT. I know it'Äôs not the flashiest thing to talk about. I will concede that it'Äôs easier to talk about Robert Griffin III¬Ýand Russell Wilson (because we all know flashy quarterbacks win playoff games1). Hell, ESPN has virtually made it a quarterback combine competition. At this point I'Äôm surprised that they haven'Äôt disrobed both of them, and picked a winner based on whether they live up to their imagination. Meanwhile the deciding factor that will easily win the game is being overlooked. The Factor: The Seattle Seahawks have a whole lot of MEAT on defense. ¬Ý Why is no one talking about the Seattle Seahawks'Äô shutdown defense, in their upcoming playoff matchup against the Washington Redskins? Now when I say, 'ÄúMEAT'Äù I'Äôm not sure what image comes to your mind. I would ask you to guess, but I don'Äôt want my inbox over flowing with the images that you would find on the internet. So allow me to tell you and ruin your fantasy. MEAT, refers to intimidating team defense, and the Seahawks have a lot of it (I'Äôm about to stop capitalizing meat because it'Äôs starting to get weird), mainly in the defensive backfield. We know both teams have a good offense. So why do people keep breaking it down who has the better quarterback or running game. As good as both of them are, neither is going to decide the game. This game will be decided by meat. I know the Redskins went on a great 7 game win streak, but they haven'Äôt seen a defense like the Seahawks. Seattle has a ball hawking secondary that knocks back Adderall like a sorority girl trying to win a drinking contest. To make matters worse Brandon Browner is coming back, which means they'Äôll have a locker full of it. I fully expect the Washington Redskins to lose by two scores. They will be overwhelmed by the Seahawks'Äô MEAT. Sorry, but I had to capitalize it one more time. MEAT ¬Ý ¬Ý Michael Vick, Dan Marino, Tony Romo, Randall Cunningham, and Jeff George. All flashy in their own way and never won big. So you can say I was using sarcasm. Okay two more ¬Ý ¬Ý personally I Dont want to know. Kortney Shane Williams Editor-in-Chief of Comedic Prose Follow Kortney Williams on Twitter @kortneyshane
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The Dow and S&P are close to 5 year highs and the NASDAQ is at a 12 year high. Corporations have more cash on hand than ever before in history, unemployment has gone down for 30 straight months, consumer sentiment is rising and consumer spending is rising. Peoples' IRA's are doing great. Why would anyone want to vote for a lyin repuke tax evading, draft dodging criminal to destroy our economy again like was done under Bush Bin Lyin and his criminal gang-led by President Cheney.
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Stephen Wiltshire MBE – Biography
Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His work is popular all over the world, and is held in a number of important collections.
Stephen was born in London, United Kingdom to West Indian parents on 24th April, 1974. As a child he was mute, and did not relate to other people. Aged three, he was diagnosed as autistic. He had no language and lived entirely in his own world.
At the age of five, Stephen was sent to Queensmill School in London, where it was noticed that the only pastime he enjoyed was drawing. It soon became apparent he communicated with the world through the language of drawing; first animals, then London buses, and finally buildings. These drawings show a masterful perspective, a whimsical line, and reveal a natural innate artistry.
Early Years
Stephen Wiltshire was born on April 24, 1974 in London, England to parents of West Indian heritage. His father, Colvin was a native of Barbados, and his mother, Geneva, is a native of St. Lucia. As a child Stephen experienced delays in his development. When Stephen was about three years old, he was diagnosed as autistic. When Stephen was about five, he was enrolled at Queensmill School in West London where the teaching staff first noticed his interest in drawing.
First Words
The instructors at Queensmill School encouraged him to speak by temporarily taking away his art supplies so that he would be forced to ask for them. Stephen responded by making sounds and eventually uttered his first word – "paper." He learned to speak fully at the age of nine. His early illustrations depicted animals and cars; he is still extremely interested in american cars and is said to have an encyclopedic knowledge of them. When he was about seven, Stephen became fascinated with sketching landmark London buildings. After being shown a book of photos depicting the devastation wrought by earthquakes, he began to create detailed architectural drawings of imaginary
Career Start
One of Stephen's teachers took a particular interest in him, who later accompanied his young student on drawing excursions and entered his work in children's art competitions, many of which garnered Stephen awards. The local press became increasingly suspicious as to how a young child could produce such masterful drawings. The media interest soon turned nationwide and the 7 year old Stephen Wiltshire made his first steps to launch his lifelong career. The same year he sold his first work and by the time he turned 8, he received his first commission from late Prime Minister Edward Heath to create a drawing of Salisbury Cathedral.
At about age 10 Stephen embarked on an ambitious project called "London Alphabet," a group of pictures depicting landmark structures in London, listed in alphabetical sequence – from Albert Hall, a famed performance venue, to the London Zoo.
In February 1987 Stephen appeared in The Foolish Wise Ones. (The show also featured savants with musical and mathematical talents.) During his segment Hugh Casson, a former president of London's Royal Academy of Arts, referred to him as "possibly the best child artist in Britain."
Casson introduced Stephen to Margaret Hewson, a literary agent who helped Stephen field incoming book deals and soon became a trusted mentor. She helped Stephen publish his first book, Drawings (1987), a volume of his early sketches that featured a preface by Casson. Hewson, known for her careful stewardship of her clients' financial interests, made sure a trust was established in Stephen's name so that his fees and royalties were used wisely. (Hewson's obituary, published in the London Daily Telegraph [February 9, 2002], lauded her "tireless promotion of his interests" and stated that despite having several other high-profile clients, she "was perhaps best known for championing… Stephen Wiltshire.")
Hewson arranged Stephen's first trip abroad, to New York City, where he sketched such legendary skyscrapers as the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building, as part of a feature being prepared by the London-based International Television News. (He is quoted in the London Times article as saying, "I'm going to live in New York [some day]. I've designed my penthouse on Park Avenue.") While in New York Stephen met Oliver Sacks.
Sacks was fascinated by the young artist, and the two struck up a long friendship; Sacks would ultimately write extensively about Stephen. The resulting illustrations from his visit – along with sketches of sites in the London Docklands, Paris, and Edinburgh – formed the basis for his second book, Cities (1989), which also included some drawings of purely imaginary metropolises.
College Years
With Hewson's help, Stephen enrolled in a three-year degree program (followed by a one-year postgraduate course) at the prestigious City and Guilds of London Art School, where he studied drawing and painting. He often commuted by himself on the London underground system. Stephen Wiltshire later successfully postgraduated in Painting and Drawing as well as Printmaking at his degree show in 1998.
Floating Cities
At about this time Stephen embarked on a drawing tour of Venice, Amsterdam, Leningrad, and Moscow, attracting crowds wherever he stopped to draw. He was accompanied part of the time by Sacks, who was conducting research for a new book of case histories. (The resulting volume, An Anthropologist on Mars, published in 1995, brought Stephen Wiltshire to the attention of an even wider audience.) His third book, Floating Cities (1991), contains the elaborate drawings he made on the tour, along with a foreword by Sacks, who wrote, "Floating Cities represents sixteen-year-old Stephen's artistic response to a 'Grand Tour' of Europe. The architectural refinement of a bygone Venetian Republic is juxtaposed to the solid merchant spirit of the Northern Renaissance as seen in Amsterdam. The barbaric vitality and energy of Moscow is set against that epitome of elegance, Leningrad – so often called 'the Venice of the North.' These drawings testify to an assured draughtsmanship and an ability to convey complex perspective with consummate ease. But more importantly, they reveal his mysterious creative ability to capture the sensibility of a building and that which determines its character and its voice. It is this genius which sets him apart and confers upon him the status of artist. For a child who was once locked within the prison house of his own private world, unable to speak, incapable of responding to others, this thrilling development of language, laughter and art is a miracle."
In a review of Floating Cities for the San Francisco Chronicle (February 16, 1992), Kenneth Baker observed: "The accuracy of proportion and perspective in Stephen Wiltshire's ink drawings – not to mention their detail – is amazing. For all their busyness, Stephen Wiltshire's drawings are not snarled with obsessive rhythms. He obviously takes pleasure in what he can see and record, and his technique, though consistent, is admirably adapted to specific subjects… Whatever barriers to conventional life Wiltshire's condition [has] put in his path, his eye and hand are enviably open channels." David Gritten wrote for the Los Angeles Times (February 5, 1992), "[The book] illustrates Stephen Wiltshire's ability to capture not only a building's detail; he has an innate sense of perspective and also can convey the mood a building evokes. Thus his Kremlin Palace in Moscow looks forbidding and imposing; his St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square with its multicolored cluster of onion domes, seems to spring from a fantasy." Floating Cities reached the top spot on the (London) Sunday Times nonfiction bestseller list.
American Dream
In 1992 Stephen accepted the invitation of a Tokyo-based television company to tour Japan and make drawings of various landmark structures, including the Tokyo metropolitan government building, in Shinjuku, and the Ginza shopping district. He then traveled to America once again, a trip that resulted in the book American Dream (1993), which featured cityscapes of Chicago, San Francisco, and New York, as well as the desert landscape of Arizona. Mary Ambrose wrote for the Montreal Gazette (July 31, 1993), "His paintings of the Arizona desert [establish] him as more than a one-trick pony, and although the coloring is a bit rough, his strong natural sense of composition keeps it together." Stephen also included depictions of friends and acquaintances, and some observers took the presence of human figures in his work as a sign that he was developing socially.
Musical Talent
While his teachers had long known that Stephen Wiltshire liked to sing, the extent of his musical talent was not immediately apparent. Hewson told Anne Barrowclough for the London Daily Mail (September 14, 1993) that she discovered the artist's additional skill while on the trip to Russia: "When we were in Moscow we would throw our own private concerts, usually opera, in our hotel room. One evening Stephen stood on a chair and sang Carmen from memory. He had picked it up from the television and remembered it almost perfectly." He soon began studying with the music teacher Evelyn Preston, who identified Stephen as having perfect pitch – the rare ability to identify the pitch of an isolated musical note.
Additionally, while people with autism often do not understand or recognize human emotions, Stephen seemed able to convey the story of the music he was hearing and interpret its sentiments – an ability that fascinated psychologists. The medical community also found Stephen's case interesting because savants rarely exhibit simultaneous skills in more than one field of learning. Linda Pring, a cognitive neuropsychologist at Goldsmith's College, in London, spent a summer evaluating Stephen in an effort to discover a relationship between his dual talents. Pring told Nigel Hawkes for the London Times (September 13, 1993), "None of our other savants has more than one talent. In the whole of the scientific literature I have found only one previous example."
Exhibition Record
Meanwhile, Stephen's artwork was being exhibited frequently in venues all over the world.
In 2001 he appeared in another BBC documentary, Fragments of Genius, for which he was filmed flying over London aboard a helicopter and subsequently completing a detailed and perfectly scaled aerial illustration of a four-square-mile area within three hours; his drawing included 12 historic landmarks and 200 other structures.
In late 2003 the Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham, England, held the first major retrospective of Wiltshire's works, spanning a period of 20 years; more than 40,000 visitors attended the exhibit, shattering the gallery's attendance records. view current exhibitions
Stephen took on his largest project to date in May 2005, when he returned to Tokyo to make a panoramic drawing – the largest of his career – of the city. Two months later he drew a similarly detailed picture of Rome, including the Vatican and St. Peter's Cathedral, entirely from memory.
In December, after a 20-minute helicopter ride, Stephen spent a week creating a 10-meter-long drawing of Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour and the surrounding urban scene. (He dedicated the work as a Christmas present to the city's residents.) Since then he added Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem and London to his collection. The last drawing in the series was of his spiritual home, New York. Further trips followed to Syndey and Shanghai in 2010.
Cityscapes & People
Contrary to the popular misconception that Stephen is only interested in capturing architecture and classic american cars, he often draws portraits of celebrities and close friends in his private sketchbook. Stephen started creating caricatures of his teachers at primary school, and has since then produced many caricature 'snap shots' documenting amusing incidents encountered on his trips abroad as well.
Stephen Wiltshire's passion for buildings, citiscapes and skylines continuously inspires him to revisit his favourite cities as well as discover new destinations while travelling the world. In a recent interview in New York he revealed that the most intriguing qualities of an exciting city must have 'chaos and order at the same time, the avenues and squares, skyscrapers as well as traffic jams, the chaotic rush hour and people'.
MBE & London Gallery
In January 2006 it was announced that Stephen was being named by Queen Elizabeth II as a Member of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services to the art world. "It's an absolute honour," his sister, Annette, told Geoffrey Wansell for the London Daily Mail (January 3, 2006). "It brought tears to my mum's eyes and to mine, because we've all worked so hard for Stephen."
Later that year, with the encouragement of Annette and her husband, Zoltan, Stephen Wiltshire founded his own permanent art gallery in London's Royal Opera Arcade, London's oldest shopping arcade.
In 2011, Stephen received an Honorary Life Fellowship from the Society of Architectural Illustrators, presented by artist Ben Johnson.
The gallery recently celebrated its 5th year of opening and the search for Stephen's second premises in New York continues today.
Many observers have noted that Stephen has an engaging personality and a strong sense of humor. He sometimes performs impromptu, but wickedly accurate imitations of such singers as Robbie Williams. He currently resides in Maida Vale, West London with his mother. He reportedly admits to a preference for blondes, most notably the actress Jennie Garth from the television series Beverly Hills 90210.
Stephen Wiltshire: The Human Camera
Uploaded on May 5, 2006
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the "Human Camera." In this short excerpt from the film Beautiful Minds: A Voyage into the Brain, Wiltshire takes a helicopter journey over Rome and then draws a panoramic view of what he saw, entirely from memory.
The Human Camera – Documentary
Published on Dec 20, 2013
Stephen Wiltshire is a 33-year-old autistic man with an extraordinary talent. He is one of less than 100 people in the world who is recognised as an autistic savant. Whereas some savants excel in mathematics or music, Stephen is an accomplished artist, and is capable of producing highly accurate drawings of buildings and cities after seeing them just once.
Although Stephen is today a quiet and confident young man, he endured a difficult childhood as family and teachers struggled to cope with his autism – a condition that was, at the time, very poorly understood and rarely diagnosed.
Cityscapes and buildings quickly became Stephen's artistic focus, possibly because they represent the kind of stability, solidity and repetition that autistic people often crave. In a short space of time, Stephen became internationally renowned for his strikingly detailed and technically accurate drawings, and since his teenage years he has travelled the world sketching famous buildings and cities.
Now Stephen is about to face one of his greatest challenges yet. He has five days to draw a four-metre-long panorama of London based on a 15-minute helicopter ride above the capital. Can he accurately reproduce the skyline of his home city solely from memory?
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