“All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again”

…So says my friend Chris Perry, who welcomed me to Google 12 years ago and who was essential in shipping the first feature I worked on there—face painting for the 2014 World Cup:

Smash cut to 2026: Chris has just left Big G to start his own company, but we’re still inviting people to paint their faces—and to do so much more—for the World Cup. Opening Gemini today, I saw this smorgasbord of Nano Banana-powered templates:

Finn & Henry (pictured up top) are now far too old and, critically, too cool to abide my applying any patriotic AI to them—but you can give it a try with pics of you & yours. 🙂