APW: Richard Wawro (919 hits)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (View user info) at 2006-10-04 10:59:46 EDT
Richard Wawro was a legally blind autistic savant from Edinburgh, Scotland. He produced prodigious works in the unlikely medium of crayon on paper.
For a biography on this amazing artist and fascinating look into the shattered world of the savant mind, read Richard's bio and obituary (he died early this year). http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant/wawro.cfm
Or watch a film based on him and his condition. In it you will see him producing some of his art from, yes, crayons: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvys7263DNc&mode=related&search=
Unfortunately, Richard's official webpage seems to be down, but the gallery is still up: http://www.wawro.net/gallery_home.html I encourage whoever owns the url http://www.wawro.net to keep up the site and let the world share the life of this fascinating man.
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Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:44:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:27:32 (#)
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Watch this video of an autistic savant on a jetski: http://www.cilfone.com/songs/jetski_bart-320x240.mpg
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What the duece? That's hilarious.
Thorpe: no court orders yet, but I like to plan in advance.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:27:32 EDT (#)
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Watch this video of an autistic savant on a jetski: http://www.cilfone.com/songs/jetski_bart-320x240.mpg
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:22:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:14:25 (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:13:29 (#)
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This one is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57yM6S1bRQ
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He's awesome. Might see if I can find a cd or two by him. You know... support him and whatnot. Would that count as charity?
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Court order?
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:14:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:13:29 (#)
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This one is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57yM6S1bRQ
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He's awesome. Might see if I can find a cd or two by him. You know... support him and whatnot. Would that count as charity?
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2006-10-04 16:10:48 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:19:24 EDT (#)
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Homie was blind, yo? Man, us Scots are double hard, fuck eyesight to paint, we dont need that pussy shit!
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:17:02 EDT (#)
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Now this... This I can +2.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:16:08 EDT (#)
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http://www.savagerecords.com/
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:14:20 EDT (#)
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Amazing how he couldn't look at the picture from afar and yet all the elements made sense as a whole.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:13:29 EDT (#)
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This one is even better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X57yM6S1bRQ
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 14:09:34 EDT (#)
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Here's that Matt Savage kid (the musical savant in that article below) performing with his trio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8yrxadI1tE
There looks to be a couple more videos of him on there as well.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:58:40 EDT (#)
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cool.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:52:29 EDT (#)
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I bet this guy stole a lot of crayons in his youth. I've had more than a few stolen from me in my time.
I wonder who inhereted his collection? (of crayons)
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:45:47 EDT (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:06:10 (#)
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This is a great read: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/genius_pr.html
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That was quite good.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:24:07 EDT (#)
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Thats amazing.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 13:06:10 EDT (#)
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This is a great read: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/genius_pr.html
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2006-10-04 12:15:48 EDT (#)
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Richard Wawro was a legally blind autistic savant from Edinburgh, Scotland
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ATTN: BF1942 maps.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-10-04 12:07:16 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:06:58 (#)
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+2 Autism, it's Electros birthday
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2006-10-04 12:06:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by goferforhire (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:53:03 EDT (#)
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Holy fucking shit
Submitted by Hypatia86 (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:48:33 EDT (#)
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Wow, he did all that with crayon? And he was blind and autistic, impressive.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:44:36 EDT (#)
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I associate colors with musical melodies. Music really is a form of painting. Adding an instrument here or extracting one there, or even changing the slightest positioning of a microphone or an EQ knob completely alters the soundscape.
I think when musicians get together, instead of playing a song they already know, they should foresake their left brain and just drone on one chord, in one key or mode for about 20 minutes and see where it leads.
Experimenting in this way is like conjuring spirits. The instruments are simply giving them voices to speak they wouldn't have otherwise had. They will thank you for it.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:44:12 EDT (#)
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Really cool you tube clip too.
Submitted by Anansie (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:39:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:11:55 (#)
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Crayon!?!? That's fucking amazing!
Good find here, dude...
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:37:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:32:40 EDT (#)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form
dammit
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:32:06 EDT (#)
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Okay, I read about this guy a bit through wikipedia, got distracted by a link as I usually do and started progressing from article to article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
That's always fascinated me, partly because I thought I might have very mild synesthesia (it affects 1 out of 23 people), associating letters with colours and gender.
Then I saw the section on "number forms", and recognised it immediately as something I experience very very strongly. I've even tried to explain it to a friend before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form. Mine is a little different to that (it goes up and to the right) but also includes the clock face for 1 to 12. That's awesome, I'm a synesthete.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:29:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:11:55 (#)
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Crayon!?!? That's fucking amazing!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:13:47 EDT (#)
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If you guys get the chance, you should take a few minutes to check out the video link. It's really cool.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:13:11 EDT (#)
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Love love love
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:12:29 EDT (#)
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what kaos said
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:11:55 EDT (#)
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Crayon!?!? That's fucking amazing!
Good find here, dude...
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:11:00 EDT (#)
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Nice colors and contrast.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:09:18 EDT (#)
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Now that - that's cool.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:07:23 EDT (#)
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Awesome.
No offense to Electro, but I think the thing that has made me laugh the hardest while on Uber was someone, I forget who, asking Electro what super powers he had.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:07:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:06:58 EDT (#)
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+2 Autism, it's Electros birthday
Submitted by retrospect (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:06:52 EDT (#)
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looks like doodles i made as a child.
Submitted by Dexter-Brown (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:06:46 EDT (#)
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amazing
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:04:10 EDT (#)
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Wow, this puts any of my (pencil) crayon work to shame. Autistic people do some amazing things.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:04:03 EDT (#)
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Fucking CRAYON?
A-damn-mazing. Nice contribution, ETS.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:02:31 EDT (#)
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Awesome.
Crayons are under-appreciated.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-10-04 11:01:10 EDT (#)
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i like the ones with black silhouetted birds.