Casual Films announce small changes, try to remain calm

Changing your appearance is a tricky thing.

Unless it’s forced upon you – either through an accident or the need to disguise yourself because you’ve double-crossed the Triads again, then it’s reasonable to say that the root cause of any change is from within. We all want to look our best, of course we do, but whether you try to achieve that by starving yourself thin, tanning yourself orange or paying through the nose for a haircut you don’t like, the net result is usually the same. You look much as you did before, possibly a little worse, you have less money and you feel much the same inside.

Of course the extreme version of this is cosmetic surgery, and there are plenty of tragic celebrity examples out there of what can happen when you’ll avoid ageing gracefully at all costs. If you can bare to look at Pete Burns for more than a few seconds you’ll see that where once stood a fairly good looking, if undeniably peculiar, young man, there now stands a orangu-man: Half simian, half cross dressing former pop-star who’s long since lost touch with reality.

Whilst it might seem like I’m advocating a ‘no change for anyone ever’ policy, I’m not. It’s dramatic change I’m rallying against, because if you want to make a dramatic change on the outside it’s generally because there’s something wrong on the inside – and if you don’t like who you are then no amount of spray tan or eye-lid implants is going to change that.

Which brings me to the whole point of this blog. We here at Casual Films weren’t happy with what was on the inside – of the website that is – so we made a few changes. We’ve tinkered with some of the code and fiddled with some of the ports and what not and, as a result, it’s now a beautiful beast. Sure, this improvement has come with a few minor cosmetic changes (check out the new HD video player) and you might say that we’re prettier than ever before, but because we focused on what’s really important – the inside stuff – we don’t need to make massive changes and the website won’t end up looking like a big orange monkey.