Thanks, John. It's a series of layered digital treatments via Photoshop, applied to a screen grab from Gmaps. :D

Just for fun, how about going the other way and turning a GoogleMap scene into a painting? Here's my version of downtown Austin, Texas with the Paramount Theater and Capitol: (better larger size at my link).
AustinScene

Spike Jones must have had inside information. :D

New evidence has emerged that sea life evolved through its own Iron Age. A rare specimen fossil of the high-arched metallic dorsal Clampfish has recently been excavated near Iron Bay, BC.

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Here's mine . . .

Celebrating birthdays has a surprisingly ancient history, as exampled in this recently excavated Western Han Dynasty Chinese birthday hat mold.

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Put a Tater Tot in each end, open mouths, pull the trigger, and share a romantic, starchy meal with your girlfriend.

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umm. . . That not Johnny Carson.

Enough cuteness to give one paws.

For me, it was seeing a "Luminist Movement" exhibit at the Smithsonian in the 1970s. It introduced me to the Luminist and Hudson River School painters. I went through the gallery several times with my jaw out of place. Since then, I've sought out the works of Church, Bierstadt, Moran, Cole, and others, and I've been to Church's "Olana" estate in New York. I especially love those who employed that romantic style to the great western landscapes of the U.S.

Tis a lawless switchblade peg-leg belongin' ter Captain Kidd's Kid. He were so short, nobody ere noticed him much, but iff'n ever a pirate be less than kind to the little bilge rat, the Kid took 'is satisfaction direct out of 'is ankle, he did!

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But, does it contain any mercury? :D

It's the Alien Queen Mother's false teeth.

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Plumbing was not up to snuff in King Henry the Eight's time, but at least he had a toilet. Here's his 16th century roto-rooter, used by his trusty Groom of the Stool (actual title).

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Too unrefined. He should do what I do. Wear regular pants, but wear one green and one red sock. That way, when the other guests are least expecting it, one can simply raise one's pants cuffs and, there you go!