Skullphone decides to speak, probably shouldn't have
By Donald Melanson 
posted Mar 28th 2008 2:41PM
posted Mar 28th 2008 2:41PM
Now that Skullphone's act of purported electronic billboard hackery has been proven to be nothing more than a simple act of forking over some cash, the graffiti artist has apparently decided to try to explain things somewhat, albeit without going so far as to completely fess up. What's more, as evidenced by the tidbits of the conversion provided by PAPERMAG, Skullphone also didn't go so far as to make a lot of sense. On the central issue of hacking, Skullphone said that, "once again, it's a matter of semantics. What does it mean to hack the system. Is getting people to think for themselves hacking?" As if that wasn't enough profundity, Skullphone also said that "the art of hacking I know nothing about. What is hacking? What is art?," before going just a tad over the top by saying that "people thought Bob Dylan sold out when he went electric. I guess people weren't ready for it." If that's got you intrigued, you can hit up the link below for some more bits of wisdom.
[Thanks, David]
[Thanks, David]
Awful.
I agree; He expressed no intentions of following up with his 2girls1cup sequel... *cough*
Is that joke stale enough for you, sir?
wow i've read 3 posts about this and all this time i've thought it was a cellphone company...
Can someone get a giant WTF on that
Dude that's so fucking deep. like woah!
like dude. i'm so fucking avant-garde by disguising my ignorance as profundity. duuuuuuuuude!
either hes complertely full of bullshit, or it was his form of some type of demonstration to make onlookers view thier technological world differently (aka: fragile)
just my take
I can only assume that he meant:
If the billboard company wasn't full of sheeples they'd notice the crazy thing I just had them put up haha i win!
But really the corporation doesn't care :P they got their money and his point is moot.
Honestly, it makes more sense than most modern 'art'
Man, this skullphone guy has watched way too much Matrix.
They are making it worse! Remove foot from mouth!
No no, let him keep going. Soon we can release a book called Skullphoneisms.
bye bye cred.
Hard to lose what you never had...
douche bag
someone wrote him a theme song: http://www.thesongoftheday.com/index.cgi?_w=1&_d=081307
these new age hippy hackers. back in my day, hackers had to walk ten miles over broken floppies to get to the back of their computers.
*spits on new age hippy non-hacker hacker*
wtf is he talking about?
Hey! you spelled Anonymous wrong!
but I'm Canadian
j/k. i would kill myself if i were canadian, except my hands would be too weak.
USA! USA! USA!
(again, j/k)
Man, us Canadians would fucking school you little fat ass americans.
well I mean, it depends on what the definition of 'is' is.
and honestly, he should have at least made the skull be using the iphone so he could have created some more buzz.
"like doodz, the iphone is so stupid, that's why a skull is using it because lyke skullz have no brainzoids."
"uh, lyke shutup, iphonez iz awesome lyke water."
"uh, lickie shutup, ifanboy, uh huhuhuhuh."
"vista blows like your mom."
"linux FTW!!!11!!"
i have shamed my people and posterity with this comment. i commit myself to forty lashes and watching johnny pneumonic 15 times with eyes forced open.
I lol'd, it's just like IRC
that was my intent. but the people have spoken and deemed my posting worthy of low rank. i will mourn the loss of my left hand as punishment for such a crime.
I wanted to vote it to the lowest rank, but I misclicked.
FAIL
oh that's right. it's not just low rank, it's lowest.
*attempts to cut off other hand - finds it difficult to hold knife with bloody stub - gives up and cries*
Bob Dylan demonstrated a broad level of talent before he went electric.
You can't sell out if you never did anything worthwhile to begin with, so Skullphone can rest easy.
Yet in a way, this is working out well for Skullphone. Before this whole thing, I never heard of them. Now, I do. ALl the buzz this is creating is definetely free advertising. Now everybody knows about them. And by speaking they just got anot her blogpost at engadget.
funny definition of "free". anyway, all it has done is make me hat ethe guy (or whatev). his publicity means if i ever hear the name, im a hate on it hard. i suppose he has iFollowers who think paying money is a hack (haha, just realised that is mac users in general).
in b4 low ranking
...?
i meant that as a normal comment to the article...
not as a reply....
good. because i will be honest with you: these tears running down my face? only partially caused by picking my nose too hard.
(this is a reply to my own comment, which was supposed to be a reply to my last reply, which was in fact supposed to be its own comment, in case it doesn't go where I want it to)
lol
dern engadget comments system...
yeah, i have problems with the system too. it's just the man trying to hold us down. stay strong, brother.
also, is there any way to get this thing to actually "remember me"? i have to enter in my password everytime even though i have that box checked off.
There's a smart way to leverage online publicity; this is not it.
word up. need to make a sex tape.
*nods sagely*
i think it's really ironic that the publicity with the tech and hax0r crowd that they cultivated will only backfire as the sham in their silly paid-for stunt becomes more exposed. i mean, after all, once you take out all the flaming and fanboyism we're the more savvy crowd. (right...?)
Wow, so deep, man, deep! Say, what if D-O-G spelled cat?
Everybody listen up! Now that I have had to absorb these words of wisdom, he is right on! SKULLPHONE FTW!
(OK, OK... I just want to be the first on engadget to have not only the highest ranked comment, but also have the lowest ranked comment as well. Please oblige!)
Reverse psychology FTW... maybe?
Damn people! You guys suck! All I wanted was to be the FIRST! to have a comment with the highest ranking, and a comment with the lowest ranking on the same page. Thanks, thanks alot. Everyone of your @sses is going up against the wall when I rule the world.
*votes up*
"If that's got you intrigued, you can hit up the link below for some more bits of wisdom" Pass.
Dylan > Skullphone
Dylan >> Skullphone
who knew a bunch of skulls with cellphones could be so damn pretentious? been living in LA too long...
"Is getting people to think for themselves hacking?"
No.
"the art of hacking I know nothing about."
Clearly.
"What is hacking?"
Nothing you've done.
"What is art?"
Also nothing you've done.
"people thought Bob Dylan sold out when he went electric. I guess people weren't ready for it."
Non Sequiturs don't make you deep, either.
I say we blend him.
Commercial conspiracy theory time: Skullphone isn't one person, but actually a team of graphic design folks and clever marketers working for a larger firm trying to create a new brand. EXCLUSIVE SKULLPHONE TSHIRT: $500 Coming soon: overpriced, rebadged Nikes with a skullphone patch on them!