{"id":300,"date":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/?p=300"},"modified":"2025-09-19T00:48:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T00:48:40","slug":"nano-banana-love-with-grok-imagine-and-schema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/2025\/09\/19\/nano-banana-love-with-grok-imagine-and-schema\/","title":{"rendered":"Nano Banana Love goes Bananas!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This growing global love for the Nano Banana<\/strong> is by no means nano.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
So a nanobanana must be a billionth of a banana. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


This was the first thought in my mind when I heard the term. My metrology schema<\/a> had suddenly gotten activated, and it was making certain connections on its own.
In the dazzling neon lights under which my neurons danced, a question popped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why on earth are we talking about these impossibly and microscopically small bananas? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so I did what any modern computer-toting non-techy does. I asked ChatGPT<\/strong> to tell me what it was.
This is what it told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nano Banana is a genetically engineered miniature banana variety developed for higher nutrition and easier cultivation<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– ChatGPT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Made complete sense.
Until I did the other thing that a modern mobile-loving non-techy does. I arrived on LinkedIn.
I realized that people weren’t going bananas about “a genetically engineered miniature banana variety<\/em>” but about this new offering from Google that lets you re-engineer your pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I experimented with Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image<\/a> <– No wonder they decided to call it Nano Banana.) and fed it a few pictures and images, which i dutifully logged here<\/a>.

Yesterday, I wanted to take it forward. I wanted to make a few videos too, and my favorite video-creator (with a mind of its own) is Grok Imagine.<\/a>

Making funny videos using AI <\/strong>is particularly easy.
In this particular case, I asked Gemini to make a picture of bananas, then used s Nano Banana avatar to put these nano characters (a princess and a pauper) into them. Then I gave the image to Grok Imagine<\/strong>, who then made their nano-love flourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In instructional design parlance<\/strong>, a schema is a dynamic mass of information stored in a lattice-like structure (our brain.) (Schema Theory<\/em>.)<\/strong> Brain smartly organizes and reorganizes information in the schemas that our brain houses – so that information that we access regularly, stays in the foreground. The information that we don’t access often is pushed into the background and over time, it becomes dormant. A trigger, however, may activate this piece of information and draw it out of its slumber. (Example here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A fun take on Google’s Nano Banana. A question, something about a scheming schema (which instructional designers have a robust schema of), and a video full of nano-love made by the Nano Banana Grok Imagine duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2,3],"tags":[71,72,70,74,73,47,69],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-instructional-design-id","tag-ai-video-creation","tag-chatgpt","tag-grok-imagine","tag-how-to-use-ai","tag-instructional-design","tag-nano-banana","tag-schema-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nano-banana-love-with-grok-imagine.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativeagni.com\/ignite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}