This is Stephen Wiltshire, a savant who recreated a sketch of New York city from memory after taking a single twenty-minute helicopter ride over the city. Check out more of his work - and the full version of the image above - at his personal webpage!
We've featured the works of Stephen Wilkes in the past, with his amazing photographic compilations of various scenes at day and night. Check out some more in this gallery below, and then check out his personal page!
Artist Yutaka Sone created this detailed map of the island of Manhattan out of a single block of marble. After studying maps, Google Earth, and taking helicopter rides over the city, Yutaka was able to create a near-perfect carving in the 2.5-ton piece of stone.
[Artist] Jay Shells is back at it with a new etiquette-themed project aiming to improve the lives of all New Yorkers. From what we hear, this is one of four signs he produced tackling some of the social misdeeds people perpetrate in the city and will begin installing then around town shortly.
Other things that are also sins/abominations:
Eating lobster Wearing clothes made of more than one fabric Trimming your beard or sideburns Getting remarried Planting more than one crop in a field Getting raped (this only goes for the ladies, but you can smooth things over by marrying your rapist, so...) Having a wet dream Eating rare meat Touching a dead animal Menstruating (and/or earning your "red wings") Getting a tattoo
