In fact It make me thought about about the contemporary political artist Hans Haake and his Marlboro piece. But for him it was more explicit because the white cube is a lab, and the piece becomes a pure concept without any misunderstooding possible because the Whole White Wall is here to show art not publicity.
(we can have an argue on it but in fact I don’t really care about what tension could happen between publicity and art in gallery because those subjects are the reason why I prefer to act in the city ; if you want to interrogate the relation you have with advertising, there is no better place than the street)
Finally that’s maybe that radicality of his piece that could make it violent or misunderstoodable…
beacuse there’s no way to read it as other thing than an advert. The more efficient for the political situation of university. People start to worry directly ; they might say : “Fuck the privatisation as began, I don’t want a Big Mac Master” and might begin to protest. The tensed situation might give sens to his action in the future (if people throw some paint on it to protest for example).
For our piece it’s more about : “Look artists are making art by subverting a logo and support explicitely our cause”.

Looking at all posts here I can imagine the argue directly in the campus and finally I prefer Brad one !

To conclude if it’s about activism and media visibilty, I think that in the get up energy of graffiti (yeah!) Cli and Trane are the best because we all know them by experience not by images.
I’m going in the south next week and I can’t wait to watch all train station full of their tags and throw-ups.
But for me the “city burning” fight is over I prefer make less art/graffiti but better. Most of us cannot be Trane or Cli. And what point indeed ? Do we need more of them, they are talented in primitive style as a few styler are. Here I prefer to watch, be surprised and make the things were I’m good.
No need to be king instead of the king – perhaps more to be artists instead of Mc Donalds ?

in the net you only see the output, as it does not move, smell,… . hehe, like that

@beck : perhaps he could have a try….. nice quote….

Clearly it’s not the same “street art logo” that most street artists put again and again in the streets like some advert for their ego.
Downey look to be far from this – that kind of guy who try not to do the same twice in deed.
I think that the real difficulty of pieces thought for a specific context, that it is not as easy to understand as usual, beacuse you cannot post it without explanation of the situation all around blogs.
Most of art in urban space have to be like that. What a pity, most of them are “universal” (I mean understandable for any one that cross them one Internet because there created in english, no matter were they are created).