{"id":24153,"date":"2026-07-27T11:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24153"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:17:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:17:36","slug":"from-nano-banana-to-beast-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/27\/from-nano-banana-to-beast-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"From Nano Banana to Beast Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4010.jpg 1061w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This helped me bring the inimitable &amp; indulgent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/margotnack\/\"><strong>Margot<\/strong><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me this is just how AI ought to work\u2014not as a creative replacement, but rather as an accelerant that lets us try more things &amp; communicate ideas better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"826\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/A-Man-A-Van-A-Plan.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,2,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24159,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24153\/revisions\/24159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}