Clement Valla, an instructor and designer in New York, created Postcards from Google Earth by exploiting angles in map images where the program warps data in order to transition from 3D space to 2D.

Clement's artist statement is an interesting read. He points out that new relationships can be created between existing elements:

"My work focuses on socio-technical systems that raise a number of interesting questions about authorship and human/computer relationships. I explore digital technologies that are not simply new tools to create and distribute copies of things but that also enable new social relationships through which people produce multiples. I treat existing artifacts, existing site conditions, market relationships, or networked and collaborative systems as programmable systems, using simple algorithmic methods: copying, repetition, iteration. When my programs run their course, inherent contradictions and absurd situations result from the very structure of the system itself, producing unfamiliar artifacts and juxtapositions." (Like his McDunco brand re-shaping program)

"Like an anamorphic projection, my programs produce distortions that reveal their own underlying logic, but also point to the system as it functions when we fail to notice it- when it works conventionally."