Mentalgassi is fairly new on street scene but they/he/she are producing high quality posters and placing them on the most procarious of locations. They creatively use mundane objects found on the street as a base for their posters and artwork. Most of their posters are people’s faces -err, making faces. The faces are pretty high quality and always wrap around the object they’re on.

This is some of the dopest highest quality stuff I’ve seen on the streets. I hope mentalgassi keeps killing shit on the street in the years to come.

Well now you can with this brilliant book titled:

Walls Notebook allows you to freely graffiti or draw on walls in the safety of your home, or where ever you are. This is brilliant and I hope this revolutionizes the graffiti scene, I would like to see the need for ‘black books’ to be replaced with something like this, or at least have some graphic designers add a fully graffiti-ed Walls Notebook to their portfolio.

Check out some of these clean surfaces you can fully deface:

I hope this inspires many to go out and buy this, or maybe just to the original version of this (graffiti with the risk *cough*). Here at DopeCool we are inspired by ’some’ of your art but also by ‘most’ of your aspirations and enthusiasm.

-Dylan

This vid is a piece of work the graffiti artisit blu did. Must have taken him weeks to film this whole thing. There is just so much going on. The stuff that blu comes up with in this piece is creative and impressive.
Make sure you watch it.
-Phil

My first post is going to be about vinyls.

No, I’m going to introduce you to the dope-est street artist: Banksy. Banksy is a graffiti artist whose shit is mostly in England (but recently his stuff has been seen in other countries). While most graffiti writers go around spraying their names on everything they see, Banksy is quite different. He rarely spray paints his name on a wall, rather he makes stencils of satirical and often-time comedic things (people, creatures, characters). All his pieces have a sublime message that is usually anti-government, anti-capitalistic, or against social norms. His stencilwork is distinctly his and fucking dope. Every piece you see by this dude makes you just saw Wow about three times.  Every, single, piece.

Banksy also pulls some pretty wicked pranks. In 2005, Banksy walked into the Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Natural History and put up 8 pieces of actual artwork (of course he added his own touch to each piece) in the middle of the day. His shit wasn’t noticed until a full week later. In another stunt a couple of years later, he switched the little booklet of 1000 new Paris Hilton CD with a custom-made booklet of his own, poking fun of the blonde heiress.

A house that Banksy happened to deface was later sold for above market value. The Banksy piece was sold with the house thrown in for free. Banksy doesn’t go for the fame many street writers do, by getting their names on as many walls as possible. In fact his pieces are hard to find and new ones don’t show up that often. In fact fame is not at all what he wants, or at least he doesn’t show it. No one has ever seen Banksy. No one knows his real name, or age, or even his voice. Make sure to peep the pics and make sure to search banksy on the web and see all of his pieces because there are a crazy amount of them and they are all 100% sick.  Also the vid is a mustwatch if this artist interests you; it explains everything about him even better than I can.