A Hollywood filmmaker and author with a three-decade career immersed in the world of rock and roll is working on a book on the environment and how to live sustainably. At the same time, he's writing a tale of Marilyn Monroe in Canada... and a book of memoirs with a heavy metal drummer. Thankfully, his Buddhist practices see him through the chaos. But not before he falls into a routine of jotting a haiku every day for a year to bring order to his reasoning, his routines, and his writing. At the end of that year, he finds that the words have changed him, and his life, forever. He moves from California to Cape Cod, to his partner in life, and partner in creativity, a photographer who paints poetry with her cameras. Together they twist haiku and begin posting on social media, sometimes at the rate of more than once a day, attracting a world-wide audience. While remaining true to the spirit of the form, he bends the rules just a little... like her lenses bend the light... just a little. They call it "Instaku Haijynx."
Craig, J. Marshall: - Canadian-born novelist & filmmaker J. Marshall Craig is best known for his critically acclaimed work as author of Eric Burdon's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell's "Between Rock and a Home Place." His novel "Eh Mail" and World War I historical non-fiction book "You're Lucky If You're Killed" were also critical successes. Craig's work also appears in various literary collections with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac and others ("The Outlaw Bible of American Literature"); Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger, Che Guevara and others ("She's A Bad Motorcycle") and former CNN talk show host Larry King ("Remember Me When I'm Gone"). Other published books include "Guilty By Association," a biography of hip-hop producer Damion "Damizza" Young and West Coast rap; the environmental study "Growing A Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable" with Chuck Leavell; and the memoirs of controversial former Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, "Rocker: Scars and Strikes." In 2020, his personal medical account "Bleed" was published, followed by "Instaku Haijynx," his book of haiku paired with photographs by his wife, noted New England photographer Kris Marie Hughes-CraigHe is a producer and second unit director of (and makes an appearance in) "Remembering Nigel," starring Martin Landau, Sally Kirkland, Michael J. Pollard, Mark Rydell and others. Craig is also prominently featured in the documentary "The Nigel Diaries: The Making of Remembering Nigel," which won Best Documentary at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. His first book, a narrative cookbook called "Playing With My Food," is said to have amused several people.
Hughes-Craig, Kristin: - Kristin Hughes-Craig is widely known for remarkably vibrant New England landscape photography and nature-themed portraiture featuring people from all walks of life, of all ages. Her intensely colored work and richly toned black-and-white work is featured regularly in print-based magazines and travel guides, and on Cape Cod, photographic and artistic online social media.Her museum-quality prints and fine canvas reproductions work are popular with collectors all over the world. In early 2013 Kristin formed TreeHouse Studios in collaboration with her husband, writer and film director J. Marshall Craig, and they operate her Kris Marie Photo, Ampersand Media, LLC and Oriana Publishing as she continues her studies in ceramics, textiles and sculpture.
