R. Cotroneo argued that “smartphones are deceiving us” in making us shoot “horrible pictures”, pictures that are only seemingly beautiful but in fact they are simply tiny positive film on a lightbox. As I was reading I found this concept terribly fascinating… And aren’t horrible pictures a blessing in an age of mandatory beautification of the vision? “The hidden medium is designed to never be wrong (…) it must be therefore deceived to interpret a situation in the wrong way a produce a wrong result.” I allow the beautifying medium to fail and bring its failings to the hardest consequences through an overstated postproduction that takes place in the medium itself.