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  "id": "year-one-archive-3",
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  "title": "Year One: the mall learned to surf",
  "dek": "A glossy, fast-reading edit of 116 impossible wave pedestals—pop ceramics, museum pieces, neon trophies, and one satellite dish calling the whole thing in.",
  "publishedAt": "2026-07-26T21:15:00-07:00",
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  "subject": {
    "name": "Year One",
    "version": "1",
    "category": "AI-assisted object study",
    "creator": "Michael Hoydich",
    "sourceArchive": "Archive 3.zip",
    "totalImages": 116,
    "promptFamilies": 29,
    "selectedForFeature": 22,
    "platform": "Responsive web"
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  "rating": {
    "value": 4.5,
    "scale": 5,
    "label": "PointCast Editor's Choice",
    "components": [
      {
        "name": "Concept",
        "value": 4.8
      },
      {
        "name": "Art direction",
        "value": 4.7
      },
      {
        "name": "Variety",
        "value": 4.3
      },
      {
        "name": "The edit",
        "value": 4.2
      }
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  "verdict": "A single strong idea, pushed until it becomes a world. The best pieces look useful, impossible, and already famous.",
  "pros": [
    "One instantly legible idea",
    "Color that earns the scroll",
    "Objects with real silhouettes",
    "A late neon run worth waiting for"
  ],
  "cons": [
    "Similar setups blur together",
    "A few shapes feel like studies rather than keepers",
    "The strongest 20 make the other 96 work hard"
  ],
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      "role": "cover",
      "alt": "A glowing rainbow wave sculpture curling around a brightly illustrated can"
    },
    {
      "src": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/year-one/transmission.webp",
      "role": "opening",
      "alt": "A satellite dish on a tiny wheeled platform against a bright test-pattern field"
    },
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      "role": "full-bleed",
      "alt": "A black and cream pedestal patterned with a great wave and supporting an amber can"
    },
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      "src": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/year-one/neon-ring.webp",
      "role": "best-in-show",
      "alt": "A circular neon wave pedestal wrapping around a can in a dark room"
    },
    {
      "src": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/year-one/great-wave.webp",
      "role": "best-dressed",
      "alt": "A pale sculptural wave pedestal with Japanese print detail and a pink can"
    },
    {
      "src": "https://pointcast.xyz/images/year-one/soft-lilac.webp",
      "role": "editors-pick",
      "alt": "A deep blue crescent wave pedestal against a lilac wall"
    }
  ],
  "sourceDisclosure": "All art in the feature was selected from the 116 PNG files supplied by Michael Hoydich in Archive 3.zip. The PointCast feature uses web-optimized derivatives and preserves the source filenames in the asset manifest.",
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