In Los Angeles car is king. David Yoon doesn't like that. He is busy narrowing down street after street. 
An attempt to make the city more picturesque? Is it a fictionalization or a whish to go back to a human scale?

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from fastcompany.com

Andreas Gursky, Oceans series, 2010

Very big prints show the earth's oceans. The parts of land surrounding the water are the continents, but they are arranged formally rather than geographical. The images are composed of high-resolution satellite images. Satellites are not interested in oceans, therefore the oceans where filled in digitally. The image has both the nature of a picture, a data-package and a painting.

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Mateusz Herczka, 44\13
The artificial Dutch landscape between the two cities Lelystadt and Almere, seen from an artificial perspective (slitscan-like image analysis)
Be sure to see the video fragment.

Flora Hitzing:

Driessens & Verstappen, Fulgurites Endoscopy (2001)
A fulgurite is a tubelike formation in sand or rock, caused by lightning. The immense heat in the core of the beam makes the sand vaporize, and a beautifully glazed inner surface remains. A machine is developed to observe these inner structures of fulgurites. The objects, mounted on an XY table can be viewed through an endoscope.