Julien Breton, aka Kaalam, is a calligrapher from Nantes, France. He was inspired by arabic calligraphers (Hassan Massoudy, Salah Moussawy, Lassaâd Métoui, etc) and graffiti, and has become the self-taught artist that he is today. From that, he developed his own Latin-based alphabet. After discovering the whole light-graffiti, Julien found a new means of expressing himself and his work. He has changed his ink into light. And instead of just paper, any surface of space becomes his canvas. Light art is getting quite popular these days, and when I first saw these images by Julien, I was really impressed. I’ve never seen such beautiful, and precise, calligraphy in the form of light art. Amazing, creative expression. His work are both on pieces of paper and in photographs. And his light art is paired with beautiful landscapes, historical monuments, buildings, and so on. Places his light works have been in include, Egypt, Lybia, France, and more. Videos and pictures after the jump…
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Clever wordplay, the ability to paint a picture in your mind with his words, and his deep-thought lyrical skill… I bring you Intalek (also calls himself I.N.T. and Theo-nious Monk). Intalek is a 22-year-old emcee from Virginia Beach. He’s often compared to Lupe Fiasco by his listeners, in terms of his lyrical thought process. However, he doesn’t claim to be like anyone other than himself. He has 3 mixtapes out, for free download (after the jump!), that have been creating a buzz around the internet. I’ve never heard of the guy, until he recently emailed us. It’s never too late, right? He passed over the links for his mixtapes, and I sat down and listened to them all… quite thoroughly. I think he’s developed another fan (me), because I’m diggin’ what he’s puttin’ out there for the world to hear.
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Mike Song and Di “Moon” Zang collaborated on this short, yet super awesome clip of two friends who get together to choreograph one of the best routines I’ve seen in a minute….all with the help of  a Magic Bathroom. Check it:

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I stumbled across this gallery of camouflage art by artist Lui Bolin while looking for information on a talk show..don’t ask how they’re related because I can’t tell you. What I can tell you is that this is really cool and a little mind boggling. Check it:

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Run-DMC will be the first rap group to ever get a street named after them. That’s right!

On August 30th, the corner of 205th St. & Hollis Ave is when and where the renaming will take place.
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Dumbo is a 20-year-old dancer that lives in California. He started dancing in 2005, when he was 16. He was once apart of the crews Futureshock LA and Cultureshock LA, and currently Dumbo dances in SickStep, Poreotics, and Pac Modern. For those of you who don’t know, the dance styles he specializes in are popping, tutting, waving, and also some breakdancing. And his tutting (and also popping) is crazy! There are some videos at the bottom, so check ‘em out.

In between school, work, and dance (congratulations on getting 1st place for USA at HHI), Dumbo took some time out of his busy schedule to answer some questions for us and you here at Crayon Beats.
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This saturday (Aug 29), NYC Arts Cypher is hosting a BBOY competiton with a grand prize of $1000. If you think your crew is bad enough to win, or if you know of a crew who could use an extra $1000, then read on for details.

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“Histoire d’océan”, an exhibition that involved the French graffiti artist Shadow. The masterpiece took 40 days of hard work, an in-water scaffolding, 1,200 square yards, a lot of climbing, and a total of 300 spray cans.

I love oceanic life, so seeing all this beautiful artwork on a ship was incredible to me. Check out the pictures of the boat after the jump…
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