There's a joy in learning the language of the machine, taking on the challenge of creating something of beauty or interest within the limitations of an elementary instrument. And, much like polaroids or pin-hole cameras, a picturephone offers the thrill of immediacy - as well as the lure of nearly anonymous ubiquity. We liked speaking the vernacular, in a visual form. There is a sort of egalitarian nature to the format, accessible to almost anyone; anyone can do this - it's DIY.It is odd to use something built for sound communication for a visual medium. A picture of sound. Music for the eyes. We three all tune in to a similar wavelength: we dig the lo-fi. We rely on in-camera composition: in the moment; in situ. We embrace the glitch: broken image and blown highlights are all part of the aesthetic. We have an appreciation for the strangely compelling distortion that a low-resolution digital camera can yield: from a milky watercolor bokeh, to a curtain of scan lines, to the fortunate blue haze of mosaic-like pixels. Creating something out of nothing and butchering colorful concepts into pixelated distortion.Sometimes our machines give us something strange and beautiful. Sometimes we are lucky, and a tiny window opens on the world.