norayoung.ca » hacks http://norayoung.ca At the Corner of Technology and Culture Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:05:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Advertising Turf Wars http://norayoung.ca/2008/03/advertising-turf-wars/ http://norayoung.ca/2008/03/advertising-turf-wars/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:29:00 +0000 Nora http://norayoung.ca/?p=62 Amidst all the increasingly invasive, extreme, (or, on a lighter note, interactive) advertising out there, here’s an intriguing little border war. Textually reports that a teenaged graffiti artist named Skullphone hacked into a bunch of digital billboards in Southern California, replacing the ads with his logo of a, er, skullphone. Probably most arresting less because of the hack and more because of the visual style of the skull holding a cell phone. (via Blogrunner)

Speaking of which, what’s the deal with all the skull imagery these days? Tattoo-style skulls on clothing (like my shoes), Damien Hirst’s diamond encrusted skull. A sign of our Thanatos-driven times, I guess.

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