As I walked the dogs past our new camper van a few weeks back, Pinterest happened to send me some vintage World War II aircraft art. I thought, heh, how nuts would it be to give the van shark teeth? I snapped a quick pic of the van, popped it plus one of the shark mouth designs into the Gemini app, and had Nano Banana mock up the possibilities:

This helped me bring the inimitable & indulgent Margot onboard with the idea, and soon enough I found myself in Illustrator, recreating the art the old fashioned, point-by-point way. Upon seeing the design, the local graphics shop advised me on some needed mods, so I hopped into Photoshop to oblige, invoking a dash of Generative Fill. Check out the (very real!) results.

To me this is just how AI ought to work—not as a creative replacement, but rather as an accelerant that lets us try more things & communicate ideas better.