The Human Camera

[Gary Ayala]

He is known as the Human Camera ...

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=0k4lsi1dql

 

[Jim Galli]

Awesome Gary. I can't remember how many keys I have on a keyring I use several times every day. Our brains must be like a computer that has selective memory flush.

 

[Ken Tanaka]

Thank you for this, Gary. It's absolutely mind-boggling what the human brain is capable of doing, albeit often at the expense of other functions.

 

[doug anderson]

Absolutely incredible. You think of what the mind is capable of and think, maybe, everybody has this potential if we only knew how to tap it. I wonder if Oliver Sachs knows about this guy.

 

[Maris Rusis]

I used to do stuff like this when I was young except I couldn't draw. I would describe instead.

The mental phenomenon is termed eidetic vision and depends on being able to conjure up in the minds eye an exact picture of what one has seen. My eidetic vision came from not talking much until just before I went to school. The silence didn't flow from being unable to say words but from neglecting even to think them. I dealt in pictures. For example the "voice in the mind" would never say "Empire State Building". Instead, a perfectly detailed picture of the Empire State Building would pop into my "mind's eye". If I could count that far I would get the number of windows right, which ones had the shades drawn, which were open; perfect.

Going to school forced me to master language (haven't shut up since) and the eidetic images faded. Maybe my dedication to photography is a last grasp to recreate some of those super detailed pictures-in-the-mind?

 

[Jeremy Jachym]

Friggin Awesome.

 

[Ben Rubinstein]

Couldn't resist it -