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Book trailer for “Driveway Chalk Stars of Pajama Astronomers: A Year of Haiku” by Jeff Mellin

A year of observation and reflection. Of snapshots, soundbites, and tiny stories. Of kōans, riddles, and magic tricks. Of meditations and revelations. A year of haiku.

Artist, writer, designer, and musician Jeff Mellin shares his year-long project to chronicle, in both words and images, the micro-moments of day-to-day life raising his three boys.

“In a sense, writing the year of haiku was like taking photographs without a camera. I learned to see these haiku moments around me, wherever I was, because I told myself I had too. It wasn’t so much finding beauty or meaning in everyday things, but knowing I could find beautiful or meaningful things everyday.” — Jeff Mellin

  • Jeff Mellin
    Director
  • Pennyring Press
    Producer
  • Jeff Mellin
    Music
  • Jeff Mellin
    Editor
  • Jeff Mellin
    Photographer
  • Project Type:
    Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    November 21, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Jeff Mellin

Jeff Mellin is an award-winning art director, multi-media artist, writer, and musician. He’s collaborated and recorded with rock bands, rockstars and avant-garde performers, designed for historically significant literary and magazine publishers, and helped to build, promote, and elevate an array of cultural non-profits, start-ups, and upstarts.
He’s also the author of several books of poetry, including Player Piano (Pennyring Press, 2021), Driveway Chalk Stars of Pajama Astronomers (Pennyring Press, 2020) and Skin & Bones (Kolourmeim Press, 2008), and has released multiple albums, EPs, and singles, with groups and as a solo artist, including Smile Like A Lemon Peel, Kiss Like A Paper Cut (wiaiwya, 2013), Three on a Match (Stereorrific, 2011), Love Is Made of Sky (d-pulse/Stereorrific, 2010), Good for A Gander (Stereorrific, 2001), and Saves the World, Parts 1ne & 2we (Stereorrific, 1999).
He currently lives with his family “on the Main Line,” just outside of Philadelphia.

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