"Eyes on Earth" - created by Tom Van Sant in 1986 (10 years before Google Earth),
is a real-time image zoom starting from the geostationary satellite 22,000 miles above Earth,
then steps through LANDSAT images and aerial photography to the surface of the Earth,
ending with handheld photography in the eye of Tom's son Ryan on the plaza of the Pacific Design Center
in Los Angeles
(on the corner of Melrose and San Vicente
Boulevards).
Commissioned
by the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center and the Formica Corporation,
in cooperation with NASA, U.S. Geological
Survey and Earth Resources Satellite Data Processing Center.