Diagnosed with autism at age three, Stephen Wiltshire is now famous for producing highly detailed scenes after just a brief glance.Today, Stephen Wiltshire is one of Britain’s best-known artists. His commissions have a four to eight month waiting list, and videos of him sketching panoramic city scapes in perfect scale have a tendency to go viral.
Teacher Francis Is Changing the Lives of Her ESL Students and Their Families.
A group of North Carolina parents walk into Irvin Elementary School in Concord, armed with homemade tamales, tacos, enchiladas, pozole and their children little Allen and Briana, Alison and Alexander in tow, for an all-Spanish-language Cinco de Mayo teacher appreciation party. They may have given their children English names, but these parents struggle with English.
Utah Couple Keeps Son's Memory Alive by Helping Soldiers Through 'Operation Adopt a Ghost'.
It was a “thank you” note from their son that started it all. In 2008, Steven and Linda Larsen of Ogden, Utah, heard from their youngest child, Christian, who was serving as a medic with the Utah National Guard’s Ghost riders task force in Kuwait.“He wrote, ‘Thanks, Mom, for the cookies and socks and other goodies I really appreciate it,’ ” Linda, 66, said “And then he added, ‘I’ve noticed there are four guys in my unit who don’t get any mail or care packages.
86-Year-Old Bride Has the Most Incredible Love Story-6 Decades in the Making.
It’s never too late to fall head over heels in love. Just ask Millie Taylor-Morrison and Harold Morrison, a New Jersey couple who wed on October 16 more than six decades after they first met.
The Queen of Kingston.
The Queen of Kingston in Jamaica or Cubah Cornwallis, as she is popularly known, is lost in history due to the improper documentation that makes it hard to follow or believe in her existence.
Former lawyer quits job and spends $15k converting a van into a home.
Meet the former lawyer who gave up her career and house after losing her mother to breast cancer in order to spend life on the open road. Lisa Jacobs, from Austin, Texas, quit her law job when her mother died and started a sustainable interior design firm where she renovated 'green' homes and Airstream trailers.
Burning love!
Two adrenaline junkie brides stunned their wedding guests when they set their dresses on fire after walking down the aisle and then proceeded to pose for pictures while wearing the burning gowns.
You'll need a sit down after this!
Settling down on the sofa is the perfect place to relax, but you will struggle to put your feet up doing this infuriating puzzle. The baffling new brainteaser, created by SCS, is challenging the web to spit the single-seater chair among a sea of sofas.
Johannes Stoetter's body art.
The world's best body painter plays tricks with the mind with incredible body art in which his subjects disappear into their backgrounds. Visual wiz Johannes Stoetter has replaced canvas with the human body, transforming his living models into objects inspired by the natural world.
Johannes, 35, spends up to five months painstakingly planning and perfecting each of his amazing creations. Each work of art then takes up to eight hours to complete using special breathable paint.
The stunning creations, which include fruit made from painted heads, have earned Johannes the world bodypainting title. The latest and most impressive creations is a lifelike tropical tree frog using five people to recreate the animal's body, legs arms and head. Johannes, from South Tyrol in Italy, said: 'I did my first bodypainting experiment in 2000.
'Five years earlier I had the idea to paint a human body but it took me until I was 23 to try it.'The experience was so special that I wanted to do it again immediately - I wanted to try it with different colours, a different model and a different motive.'I couldn't imagine that there would be a way to earn money with bodypainting, but nevertheless, I was totally convinced that I wanted to do it - I felt that it was my way.
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