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What’s Good Book Trailer

Book trailer for Daniel Levin Becker’s “What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language ” from City Lights Publishers.

A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What's Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis"What's Good is, among a great many other things, a byproduct of joyful obsession and immersion into both language and sound, an intersection that offers a rich and expansive land upon which to play.

  • Jeff Mellin
    Director
  • Garrett Caples
    Writer
  • City Lights Publishers
    Producer
  • Jeff Mellin
    Editor
  • Jeff Mellin
    Animation / Motion Graphics
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    1 minute
  • Completion Date:
    February 24, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
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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