{"id":52918,"date":"2026-03-06T04:51:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=52918"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:11:12","slug":"latter-day-saint-wheres-waldo-and-stephen-biesty-cross-sections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/latter-day-saint-wheres-waldo-and-stephen-biesty-cross-sections\/","title":{"rendered":"Latter-day Saint Where&#8217;s Waldo and Stephen Biesty Cross-Sections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently released Nano Banana 2, the most advanced image generator for small detail kind of stuff. (Still not the more advanced for artistic purposes, that&#8217;s still Midjourney&#8211;when people still say that all AI image generation is slop I point them to online fora of Midjourney artists).<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid I loved those Stephen Biesty cross-section books, the kind where you folded out the image of the Titanic, castle, or whatever and you were able to see the insides. I also liked Where&#8217;s Waldo, so I used the new Nano Banana 2 model to do Latter-day Saint versions. \u00a0(Noting that Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thriftbooks.com\/w\/i-spy-a-nephite_pat-bagley\/356348\/#edition=2570711&amp;idiq=4927437\">already produced<\/a> a Nephite &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are inaccuracies, and if I wasn&#8217;t preparing for an international business trip I&#8217;d clean it up, develop it more and add more funny aside scenes like the real Where&#8217;s Waldo (these are all one-prompt, simple requests), but the basics are there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52919\" src=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-1-1-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-1-1-800x437.jpg 800w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-1-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52920\" src=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2-1-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2-1-800x437.jpg 800w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-2-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52921\" src=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0071_720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-52922\" src=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_0072_720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently released Nano Banana 2, the most advanced image generator for small detail kind of stuff. (Still not the more advanced for artistic purposes, that&#8217;s still Midjourney&#8211;when people still say that all AI image generation is slop I point them to online fora of Midjourney artists). When I was a kid I loved those Stephen Biesty cross-section books, the kind where you folded out the image of the Titanic, castle, or whatever and you were able to see the insides. I also liked Where&#8217;s Waldo, so I used the new Nano Banana 2 model to do Latter-day Saint versions. \u00a0(Noting that Pat Bagley at the Salt Lake Tribune already produced a Nephite &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221;). Of course there are inaccuracies, and if I wasn&#8217;t preparing for an international business trip I&#8217;d clean it up, develop it more and add more funny aside scenes like the real Where&#8217;s Waldo (these are all one-prompt, simple requests), but the basics are there. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10403,"featured_media":52919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-images","category-arts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/unnamed-1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52924,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52918\/revisions\/52924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}