diff --git a/papers/arxiv-granularity/figures/cover-prompt.txt b/papers/arxiv-granularity/figures/cover-prompt.txt
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@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ A photograph of a colored-pencil and gouache drawing on pure white paper, square. Confident hatching and striping build tone. Tapered pencil edges. Visible paper grain. Print-work sensibility. Diegetic light only — never overlay glow. Candid iphone-snapshot tone — NOT cinematic, NOT an advertisement hero pose. The figure never looks at the camera. The drawing dissolves softly to pure white paper at the edges with no hard frame, no border, no caption, no wordmark, no title lettering anywhere on the page.
 
 the scene: one man alone, sitting on a simple wooden chair in white space — no room, no floor line beyond a soft hatched shadow under the chair legs. the FULL FIGURE is in frame as one complete gestalt: head, both arms, the whole chair, both legs, and both shoes entirely inside the picture, nothing cropped by any edge — the man-and-chair unit floats as a single drawn object in the middle of the white paper with generous white margin on all four sides.
 
-it's the man in the reference photos — recognizably him, medium-length brown hair tucked behind one ear. he wears his usual outfit: a plain solid button-down shirt, mostly buttoned but relaxed, top button undone, no graphic print — a bright-yellow torpedo-shaped fountain pen with a gold clip in the chest pocket, and a small yellow embroidered bear-shaped badge stitched on the chest, part of the shirt itself.
+it's the man in the reference photos — recognizably him, medium-length brown hair tucked behind one ear. faithfully match his usual outfit from the references and established paper covers: a loose white or light-gray button-down over a peach undershirt, cropped bright-blue trousers, turquoise patterned socks, black low-top shoes, a bright-yellow torpedo-shaped fountain pen with a gold clip in the chest pocket, and a small yellow embroidered bear-shaped badge stitched on the chest.
 
-his prop: a small portable turntable balanced on his lap, its black record mid-spin with a warm oxblood label; one hand pressed flat on the vinyl in a scratch, dragging it, a slim tonearm resting in the groove. he is leaning into it, head tilted down toward the record, feeling the sound move under his hand rather than looking at it — the whole posture is listening through the fingers.
+his prop is Aesthetic.Computer's actual tape interaction from the video.mjs piece, not DJ equipment: a small black tablet-like screen balanced on his lap shows a recorded video frame. one index finger drags horizontally across the moving image to scrub it forward or backward at variable speed while the other hand supports the screen. a thin tactile red VHS-style tape/progress ribbon runs along the bottom edge and visibly shifts beneath the gesture. he leans into it, head tilted down, feeling time move under his finger. no turntable, vinyl, tonearm, cassette player, or loose magnetic tape.
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diff --git a/papers/arxiv-granularity/granularity.tex b/papers/arxiv-granularity/granularity.tex
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@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ \twocolumn[{%
 \begin{center}
 {\acbold\fontsize{24pt}{28pt}\selectfont\color{acdark} gaps in {\color{acgreen}granularity}{\color{acpink}.}}\par
 \vspace{0.25em}
-\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{figures/cover}\par
+\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{figures/cover-video}\par
 \vspace{0.15em}
 {\aclight\fontsize{11pt}{13pt}\selectfont\color{acpink} Expressive Control and the Impoverishment of Consumer Playback}\par
 \vspace{0.6em}
diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/gaps-in-granularity-26-arxiv.pdf b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/gaps-in-granularity-26-arxiv.pdf
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diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/thumbs/gaps-in-granularity-26-arxiv.jpg b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/thumbs/gaps-in-granularity-26-arxiv.jpg
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