Foreword: Bear with me; the thought just came to mind and I haven't had a chance to fully flesh it out.

There is a particular frame of mind with women for the most part as a whole. It's this mindset that they can take whatever features of themselves they don't particularly like and, with little more than a trip to the convenience store in many cases, alter. Hair dye, makeup, extensions, fake nails, straighteners, curlers, etc., not to mention the obvious elective cosmetic surgeries. Even tanning booths! What happened to the day when you got a tan because you were outside playing or working or something? For what reason do these people need to be so dark in the winter? Everyone knows you haven't been climbing mountains in your swimsuit, you're not fooling anyone.

And what's wrong with being pale in the first place? Truly, seriously, what the hell is the benefit of being tan when your skin defaults to cream? (I know, not all skin defaults to cream, but those tones are exempt from this argument -- they have their own natural defaults.)

The point is that so many people don't even feel comfortable in their own skin, they're right near panic-stricken at the thought of being seen without makeup or having their roots grow in. I just want to see the way people actually look! Natural hair color, natural skin tones... Who cares if your hair's an "ugly shade of brown?" It's brown! It is one of the five standard-issue hair colors that a person can have naturally! Is it seriously a concern if it's not some dark mahogany? It really does disgust me.

And so do high-heeled shoes. Yes, they make your legs look longer -- longer than they should be in order to remain proportionate to your body. They make you look awkward. Terribly awkward. Is it so much to ask that people just look like themselves?

If you're short and pale and dark-haired, don't try to be tall and dark and blonde. That is not who you are. I do not recognize that person.

An accounting firm whose site I'm designing for Zorebo wants a series of rotating images and phrases (kind of like those memed-to-death motivator posters, but without the now-expected sarcasm). The catch is they want them to be of nature/animals, but they have to be about things like innovation. You know what's hard to think of once you've had one failed idea you thought would be perfect? Absolutely anything else.  A note to those who could potentially be in my shoes: don't bother looking for a photo of an otter breaking an oyster over a rock; their arms are just too short to make the grade.

As a rule, I don't blog. I suppose that rule is now moot, however, as this is about as much a blog as one can have. To answer the implied "about," I'm a web/graphic designer, light PHP/MySQL/JS developer, and multi-musician. I work for myself (Vector Bridge) and others (Zorebo, Tooling University) illustrating the internet. I'm also in a band called Nae Sae and/or Shooting Cupids, in which I very slowly make songs all by my lonesome. This will likely be filled with nonsense tangentially-related to the aforementioned topics, with a bit of auto-enthusiasm thrown in for good measure.