Skullphone decides to speak, probably shouldn't have

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]

[Scott @ Mar 28th 2008 2:46PM]

Awful.

[Blaktornado @ Mar 28th 2008 3:03PM]

I agree; He expressed no intentions of following up with his 2girls1cup sequel... *cough*

Is that joke stale enough for you, sir?

[Chris Macdonald @ Mar 28th 2008 5:33PM]

wow i've read 3 posts about this and all this time i've thought it was a cellphone company...

[Gorillamonk @ Mar 31st 2008 11:52AM]

Can someone get a giant WTF on that

[Brent Hollingsworth @ Mar 28th 2008 2:47PM]

Dude that's so fucking deep. like woah!

[phanbouy @ Mar 28th 2008 3:19PM]

like dude. i'm so fucking avant-garde by disguising my ignorance as profundity. duuuuuuuuude!

[luke @ Mar 28th 2008 4:10PM]

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

[Ghen @ Mar 28th 2008 4:36PM]

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.

[Reader @ Mar 28th 2008 6:28PM]

Honestly, it makes more sense than most modern 'art'

[Raymond @ Mar 29th 2008 12:32AM]

Man, this skullphone guy has watched way too much Matrix.

[retro77 @ Mar 28th 2008 2:48PM]

They are making it worse! Remove foot from mouth!

[Anthony @ Mar 28th 2008 3:43PM]

No no, let him keep going. Soon we can release a book called Skullphoneisms.

[Mark @ Mar 28th 2008 2:48PM]

bye bye cred.

[CraigJ @ Mar 28th 2008 3:12PM]

Hard to lose what you never had...

[buzzbean @ Mar 28th 2008 2:48PM]

douche bag

[rbtroj @ Mar 31st 2008 4:21PM]

someone wrote him a theme song: http://www.thesongoftheday.com/index.cgi?_w=1&_d=081307

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 2:50PM]

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*

[rwfu666 @ Mar 28th 2008 2:54PM]

wtf is he talking about?

[retro77 @ Mar 28th 2008 2:59PM]

Hey! you spelled Anonymous wrong!

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 3:01PM]

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)

[Kurt MacD @ Mar 30th 2008 5:41PM]

Man, us Canadians would fucking school you little fat ass americans.

[daedalus @ Mar 28th 2008 2:52PM]

well I mean, it depends on what the definition of 'is' is.

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 2:53PM]

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!!"

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 4:29PM]

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.

[Chris @ Mar 28th 2008 4:42PM]

I lol'd, it's just like IRC

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 4:44PM]

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.

[TubeTop100.com @ Mar 28th 2008 4:49PM]

I wanted to vote it to the lowest rank, but I misclicked.

FAIL

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 4:54PM]

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*

[Arkweld @ Mar 28th 2008 2:53PM]

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.

[nik @ Mar 28th 2008 2:53PM]

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.

[Dean @ Mar 28th 2008 3:17PM]

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

[rwfu666 @ Mar 28th 2008 2:55PM]

...?

i meant that as a normal comment to the article...
not as a reply....

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 2:56PM]

good. because i will be honest with you: these tears running down my face? only partially caused by picking my nose too hard.

[rwfu666 @ Mar 28th 2008 3:00PM]

(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...

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 3:09PM]

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.

[Jason G. @ Mar 28th 2008 2:58PM]

There's a smart way to leverage online publicity; this is not it.

[Anonymoose @ Mar 28th 2008 2:59PM]

word up. need to make a sex tape.

*nods sagely*

[phanbouy @ Mar 28th 2008 3:23PM]

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...?)

[hypereric @ Mar 28th 2008 2:58PM]

Wow, so deep, man, deep! Say, what if D-O-G spelled cat?

[hypereric @ Mar 28th 2008 4:57PM]

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!)

[DWells55 @ Mar 28th 2008 6:15PM]

Reverse psychology FTW... maybe?

[hypereric @ Mar 28th 2008 7:34PM]

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.

[DWells55 @ Mar 28th 2008 9:22PM]

*votes up*

[CraigJ @ Mar 28th 2008 3:11PM]

"If that's got you intrigued, you can hit up the link below for some more bits of wisdom" Pass.

[Dave @ Mar 28th 2008 3:17PM]

Dylan > Skullphone

[MasterCKO @ Mar 29th 2008 7:33PM]

Dylan >> Skullphone

[phanbouy @ Mar 28th 2008 3:17PM]

who knew a bunch of skulls with cellphones could be so damn pretentious? been living in LA too long...

[Josh L @ Mar 28th 2008 3:17PM]

"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.

[mattwier @ Mar 28th 2008 3:17PM]

I say we blend him.

[web2.oh @ Mar 28th 2008 3:26PM]

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!