Light Graffiti by Julien Breton1
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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…
Video of Julien doing some calligraphy work on paper.
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Digital Slaves and Kaalam developed a new system for real time calligraphy and drawing. It reproduces the calligraphy feeling along with some new features from the digital world. It’s composed of one industrial camera at 60fps, a homemade lamp, and a touch screen with an interface (allows the calligrapher to choose the texture, the width and height, and also the color). VIMEO VIDEO.
Kaalam website | Kaalam flickr | English interview with Julien
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one word: badass.