Skullphone: "Billboard liberation" 2008

Clear Channel Billboard hijacking

– Photos: by Curtis Kulig (http://curtiskulig.com/)
– Source: http://supertouchart.com/tag/skullphone/
– Site: http://www.skullphone.com

HOLLYWOODLAND///STREET LIFE///SKULLPHONE SKYJACKS LA’S DIGITAL BILLBOARDS…
March 20th, 2008
http://supertouchart.com/2008/03/20/lastreet-lifeskullphone-hijacks-las-digital-billboards/
Skullphone goes digital above Barracuda at 7769 Melrose…
Right now the enigma that is known only as SKULLPHONE is easily Clear Channel Communications‘ greatest enemy in SoCal since he hijacked 10 of the advertising giant’s most prominent digital billboards around LA in Hollywood, Westwood, and the art hotspot of Culver City. Hacking into the billboard’s computer network today, our boy positioned his trademark skullphone imagery in between the array of flashing movie, TV, and auto company ads that make up the normal paid advertising barrage on the giant illuminated monitors. Keep an eye out for more photos to come throughout the day…

LA///STREET LIFE///SKULLPHONE SPEAKS…
March 31st, 2008
http://supertouchart.com/tag/skullphone/
Supertouch breaking the news that SKULLPHONE had hacked his way into the Clear Channel network to post his iconic skull image onto the network’s LA digital billboard network illegally, WIRED MAGAZINE has reported that it was all a hoax, and that Skullphone actually paid for the ads:
FROM WIRED MAGAZINE:
“The Los Angeles street artist known as Skullphone managed to get his iconic skull-holding-a-cell phone image to display on 10 prominent digital billboards throughout Los Angeles last week – leading some blogs to report that he’d hacked into the signs. Alas, Clear Channel Outdoors, which owns the billboards, says no. “He paid to get it up,” says spokeswoman Jennifer Gery. “It only ran for two days.” Update: Clear Channel’s Tony Alwin is unhappy about the hacking rumors. “The advertisement was bought under the assumption that it was art that was in an art show,” he says. “Any claims about hacking into our systems is false. It’s a lie, even.”

LA///BILLBOARD LIBERATION///SKULL PHONE GOES SKY HIGH IN ECHO PARK
January 31st, 2009
http://supertouchart.com/2009/01/31/labillboard-liberationskull-phone-goes-sky-high-in-echo-park/
Mobile communications-loving street artist SKULLPHONE went sky high in Echo Park last week when this aerial homage to his billboard hijacking rampage in Hollywood last summer. Anyone who blinked missed it, of course. It was buffed less than 24 hours later. Keep your eyes peeled for more “interventions” coming soon…