I saw a fascinating short movie at Sundance, called site_specific: Las Vegas 05. The filmmaker, Olivo Barbieri films cities from a helicopter, using a tilt&shift lens to achieve a miniature-like effect. Some googling revealed that this illusion can be reproduced quite well by cleverly blurring and otherwise tweaking the image in Photoshop, and there is quite a craze going on flickr. Here is my contribution (original pic taken from Ensign peak)...