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| 7 | | -#not ready |
| 7 … | +You've perfected a ritual for getting shit done. |
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| 9 | | -Datradio as boombox. A simple player page, with the personal collection of this radio owner on the left. All of their subscribed to playlists are here--some are personal albums they uploaded, but don't want to share. Some are new mixes or albums they are listening to, but unsure if they like yet. |
| 9 … | +An altar, a soundtrack, a few breaths and your mind focuses to accomplish anything. And you're so grateful for this ritual, tonight, with a midday deadline tomorrow and a blank page on your computer screen, its white pixel glow radiating like a stress headache. |
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| 11 … | +You take a breath, you rest your hands, and you assemble your altar. |
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| 13 | | -The color of the player is the exact color they want. The size of the player is the exact size they want. Maybe they've put in their own keyboard shortcuts? There's a description that's just theirs, a song lyric placed beneath the site title. |
| 15 … | +## Your Altar |
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| 17 … | +- A clean desk |
| 18 … | +- A pot of tea with your favorite mug. |
| 19 … | +- A lit honeycomb candle near your computer |
| 20 … | +- The lighter in front of you, for a stress fiddle. |
| 21 … | +- A shard of selenite laid across the laptop. |
| 22 … | +- And, most importantly, your datradio opened in a new tab. |
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| 26 … | +You've customized your datradio to radiate a cool calm. A soft brown background and baby blue font in a curvy sans-serif you copied from Kyra's homepage, with small gifs of flowers laid in the four corners of the beaker window. You've taken to writing your favorite lyrics into the datradio description. Right now, in a thin gray cursive at the top of the page it says _'I'm not the moon, I'm not even a star, But awake at night I'll be singing to the birds'_. |
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| 28 … | +And in the center of the screen is your dat collection, laid out in your perfect grid. |
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| 32 … | +You'd found a tutorial in the chorus for how to customize your datradio collection so that each cover had the size and border of a postage stamp. You loved that look and so you copied the source code and added it to your own radio. Now you scroll through the stamps looking for your soundtrack, A Briana Marela album you'd discovered through a dat-zine shared on #song-islands. |
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| 36 … | +When you click on the Briana Marela cover, your personal view fades away and is replaced by Brian's dat cover, and the images she'd loaded in. Her dat cover is a looping gif of pink smoke rising from a field of grass, soft and strange and taking up the whole screen with the tracklist laid out at the bottom. |
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| 40 … | +You watch the smoke rise, and take a few breaths. This moment reminds you of when y'all used to hang out at Josh's house, and get high while listening new albums. You'd , on the shag carpet by the family turntable, |
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| 17 | 44 … | When they put in a new dat link, the background of the player changes--it takes on the background color chosen by the playlist owner. A new description appears below of the dat. There are photos that appear at the bottom to scroll through. |
| 18 | 45 … | For as long as they are listening to this playlist, the screen will take on the appearance of it. |
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| 20 | 47 … | ~~* |