Aaron Kelly
I live in Berlin with my wife Holly
I'm community manager at Readmill
aaronjlkelly [at] gmail [dot] com
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It’s pretty hard to believe people like this actually exist.
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The vast amount of choice that we have is meant to be helpful and part of our freedom, but it’s really the most crippling element of modern life.
David Bazan on The Great Discontent
This is probably my favourite quote in a very long while.
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Charlie Brooker on visiting Japan, where he is eating green kit kats:
The first toilet I encountered in Japan was so advanced it automatically lifted the seat itself the moment it sensed my approach, like it just couldn’t wait for me to crap down its throat. It’s disconcerting, defecating into a robot’s mouth. In five years’ time that toilet won’t merely cock its lid when you enter the room, it’ll be programmed to hum lullabies as it swallows your droppings. If the machines ever rise up and kill us, we’ll only have our own smug sense of mastery to blame.
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The King’s Speech was a superb film, but it’s essentially Rocky for stammerers. Patriotic, yes: but we’ve made other, more forward-looking British films by ignoring the box office and taking risks. This Is England was a big British hit after years of low-budget risks from Shane Meadows. Kidulthood was a big British hit because Noel Clarke risked a film resembling nothing else in the multiplex. Four Lions, Shaun of the Dead and The Inbetweeners Movie were big British hits, the success of which can be traced back to risks taken on television: Chris Morris, Spaced, and the original Inbetweeners sitcom – niche comedies on minority channels. The mainstream came to them. Not the other way round.
Charlie Brooker on why David Cameron’s plans for the British cinema industry are misguided (via guardiancomment) -
Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every hand-clasp. Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a moment thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your own mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal. Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would like to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements that it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought that you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire … Thought is supreme. Preserve a right mental attitude - the attitude of courage, frankness, and good cheer. To think rightly is to create. All things come through desire and every sincere prayer is answered. We become like that on which our hearts are fixed. Carry your chin in and the crown of your head high. We are gods in the chrysalis.
Elbert Hubbard, quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (via lukeleighfield)
‘To think rightly is to create.’
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Oh I’d wear this.Chicago Bulls 1991 • Championship Ring
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Berlin snow.
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Starting tomorrow, this is what the next three weeks look like for us.
Excited to see friends and some trans-european railways. -
While they voiced some concern about the proximity of July’s Armageddon, in which the earth is on a fatal collision path with an asteroid, with Paramount and DreamWorks’ Deep Impact, in which the world is on a fatal collision path with a comet, they had an ingenious scheme for differentiating their product. Holding up a rectangular box, their executives explained that it contained a kit that would help theater managers to build a mock asteroid. Disney planned to distribute this package to theaters playing Armageddon and award prizes to theater managers who used it to create the most forbidding cosmic rock.
Highlighted by Aaron Kelly in The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies -
The real secret is the salt.” As a veteran of the movie exhibition business, he explained that the more salt that a movie theater added to the butter it poured over its popcorn, the more money it made since it drove customers back to the concession stand for drinks—where they buy more popcorn. Stephenson concurred, adding, “We are in a very high-margin retail business.
Highlighted by Aaron Kelly in The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies -
In my version of the English language, when one member of a club uses his veto, he blocks something from happening. Mr Cameron did not stop France, Germany and the other 15 members of the euro zone from going ahead with what they are proposing. He asked for safeguards for financial services and—as had been well trailed in advance—France and Germany said no. That’s not wielding a veto, that’s called losing.
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I work with some really cool people, on a really good thing.
At midnight last night/this morning, we opened up to everyone.
Excited to have played my part…
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