As you’re no doubt aware, Google Earth is a web application that allows users to virtually surf the globe, flying anywhere in the world like some supreme being, spying on the world from an elevated position in the cosmos. But in addition to its practical (and god-like) implementations, it’s also become a new favorite source of material for digital artists, from the found art of its Street View feature collated by Jon Rafman to collaborative images that blur fiction and fact like in Street With A View from artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley, or Clement Valla’s warped bridges in Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges.Now Google Earth makes the leap into motion graphics in the video for Lux Repeat’s track “Avoiding You”, created almost entirely in Google Earth by artist Bartholomäus Traubeck. The glitchy landscapes jitter along as if under the watchful gaze of some omnipresent being, reinforced by the shots of the starry night sky panning back to terra firma. It’s like you’re caught inside an astral dream, as abstract geometric forms and changing polygonal landscapes drift past to a soundtrack of minimalist techno. It’s an unnerving and slightly jilting experience, transforming the earth’s terrain into an otherworldly digital journey.