In what has to be some sort of protest or art project, the hacker known only as SkullPhone has once again hijacked 10 of the giant flashing digital billboards Clear Channel Communications owns in the LA area. Instead of the normal images you’d see, there’s the leering visage of a very creepy skull using a cellular phone. Check out a great collection of photos over at Supertouch. Feel free to shudder at the John Carpenter-esque nightmare.
Is it some sort of shockvertisement for a movie, perhaps? A statement against consumer culture and the omnipresence of scenery-choking billboards beaming advertisements into the helpless brains of drivers? Is it just some guy wanting to prove that he’s good enough to hack into electronic billboards? Skullphone has a website, but I’m a little afraid to navigate it lest I come home and discover my computer’s been hijacked by a particularly talkative skull.
Someone go find out what this is all about and let me know, okay? It’s disturbing and cool, and I totally approve.
Tags: advertising, hacks, graffiti, digital billboards, skullphone