Reality Hacking

[Kiwi-Clock]

I don't know much about computer hacking, but I reality hack as often as possible. If any of you have read a book called the 'happy mutant handbook' you'll know what I'm talking about!

For those that haven't, reality hacking can be done in several different ways. One example of a kind of reality hack happened when I was on a bus a few weeks back. A woman got on with a friend and took a seat down the front. After a few stops she got up and told everyone "Don't frown everyone!! Life's not about all this!! If you don't like your job LEAVE! It's not worth it!" she got no response, but I thought she was on drugs. She sat back down for a minute then started singing, and she was really good! It was a kind of broadway number and she sang it like a professional. When she was done I clapped enthusiastically and she bowed deeply, but No-one else reacted. They didn't know what to do! This woman had busted in on their dreary reality and they couldn't handle it.

I don't usually do that sort of thing, But another way is to find your way the many "off limits" and abandoned places in the city you live. I have a great photo of me sitting in the golden arches of a mcdonalds sign in the middle of town over looking the main strip. I once climbed a fire escape, climbed from there into a car park and after sliding down a pole found myself on the roof of the inner city police building.
My favourite one was after climbing from roof top to roof top, hiding from police, precariously tip-toing over a joining wall, entering an abandoned building through a broken window and crawling up a broken stairway to an open roofed room (several walls had been knocked down along with the roof, and this is about 6 levels up) to find someones gigantic tag up there, and very nicely done as well. This gut had probably done the same sort of adventure I had, and he's come prepared! I noticed you could see it from the ground after that.

Now I live in Sydney and they have security guards with guns and dogs and shit. I used to play in construction sites but over here it's all a bit over-protected. I still know a few apartment complexes where I have full access to the pools and gyms because of my 1337 hacking skillz.. not that I want to use their pools or anything.. pfft.

Have you got any tales of climbing 40 meter high cranes or even getting caught somewhere you knew you were not meant to be? Are you teh 1337 r34L17y h4x0r?!

[House-Of-Leaves]

At 6/28/03 09:36 PM, My-anus-is-BLEEDING wrote: ...

WOW.

You know what? This is one of the most profound, thought-provoking things I've read in a LONG time. Thank you so, so much for that.

I grew up in such a small town that it wasn't possible to 'reality hack' effectively. Talking to people on the street wasn't out of the ordinary. You knew everyone, so..nothing was really weird.

But man. Living where I do now? I think I'm going to reality hack tomorrow! On the public transportation line! Yay!

[Dagodevas]

I'm still confused over the theoretical meaning of "reality hacking". This philosophy does sound quite nice though.

Kazuo "System Security" Kiriyama

[lancaster12]

This one time I got into an abondoned townhouse because the backdoor was unlocked, and I took a shit on the kitchen floor, then I walked around the house a little bit, and some guy came in the front door and I ran. Is that a reality hack? BTW I'm not joking this really happened...

[SubNoctem]

You're "reality hacking" is just a definition of every teenager. Who doesn't go where they're not supposed to? What teenager doesn't do stupid shit in public places, or make a scene. And honestly, who has never gone into an abandoned house, or threw flaming tennis balls into a construction area, or made some sort of explosive in a public park?

[lancaster12]

Yeah I think pretty much everyone does something crazy, its just funny to tell others about it. We need to get some people doing some hardcore reality hacks and taking pictures, etc. The term 'reality hack' isnt some term he just made up either its been around for a while.

[Kiwi-Clock]

One MAJOR organised hack I read about recently takes place in New York. Im not sure how they get in contact, but a group calling themselves MOB or The Mob or something just show up in a random place, hang around for a few minutes and then just disperse, confusing hundreds of innocent bystanders! here's a excerpt from the article I read:

4) Leave the bar and walk to the MOB site as quickly
as possible. It will take you longer to get there than
you think. If you arrive near the final MOB
destination before 7:27, stall nearby. NO ONE SHOULD
ARRIVE AT THE FINAL MOB DESTINATION UNTIL 7:26.

(5) Find the item and stand around it. Unlike in MOB
#1, where the participants were not to acknowledge one
another, here you should greet even those you do not
know. Talk among yourselves about the item and its
relative merits and demerits. Only if you are blocked
from seeing the item should you stray to examine other
merchandise at the site.

(6) If you are approached by a salesperson, explain
that everyone present lives together, in a huge
converted warehouse in Long Island City, and that you
are there looking for a "[secret phrase]." Explain
that you make all purchases as a group.

(7) At 7:37 you should disperse. Thank the salespeople
for their help, but explain that the item has been
"voted down." NO ONE SHOULD REMAIN AT THE MOB
SITE AFTER 7:39.

I would LOVE to be behind something like that!! Hmm.. the Sydney MOB.. not too sure we're ready for it!

Pooing in someone's house? well I don't know about that one.. now gaining access to an office complex after the cleaners have done their biz and laying a nugget right on someones desk.. that'd be class!

here's a link to the stuff I mentioned above: http://www.cheesebikini.com/blog/archives/000261.html

[Dagodevas]

I think I'm starting to understand the meaning behind your "Reality Hacking" philosophy. Unfortunately, I don't think I have much to contribute. I'm generally a pretty humble person and I don't like always being the center of attention.

...However, at my friend's Junior Prom a few years back, I was on the dance floor with her when she decided to call one of her friends to join in with the dancing. She joined in and she starting calling her friends in. Before you know it, I was dancing with a dozen of my friend's female friends around me. I was clearly standing out on the dance floor. Oh how I wish I had a camera on me that night. That would have been a timeless photo.

Well, that's the best I can do. Sorry if it disappoints.

[biteme2514]

Interesting philosophy. Almost sounds like it's taken right out of The Matrix. That's a compliment though. But yeah, I've never really done anything crazy. The craziest thing I've done in recent memory is walk around outside past midnight by myself. I know it doesn't sound like much but it's really weird walking around on the streets at night. There's no one around and you're free to go wherever you want to. No limits, no boundaries. I wandered around my old elementary school playground and sat on the swings a little. It brought back a lot of memories. Good ones, bad ones... It doesn't matter. It felt good. When I got back home at around 2 am, I felt as if I had been reborn, you know? Oh well, sorry if this sounds cheesy but that's my experience with "reality hacking". I can sum your whole philosophy up in two words though... Carpe diem.

[Kiwi-Clock]

At 6/28/03 09:44 PM, TheVampire wrote: stuff

That's true in a way, but it's not really the same.

The real drive is not to cause a scene or just doing it because you know you shouldn't, it's to interupt someone's daily routine, hopefully making a positive impact on them, and if not just having a good time doing it.

[SeeYaMoron]

If you love trespassing, being chased by the cops and climbing to hight places, graffiti is for you man, because besides your own satisfaccion, you will get respect from other writers.

Of course it will take you a couple of years to perfect your styles ;)

[Kiwi-Clock]

At 6/28/03 10:16 PM, Anti-Hero0 wrote: If you love trespassing, being chased by the cops and climbing to hight places, graffiti is for you man, because besides your own satisfaccion, you will get respect from other writers.

Of course it will take you a couple of years to perfect your styles ;)

I went around my neighbour hood with a decepticon stencil I made, I attacked all the billboards I could reach on the block. Every vehicle and shoe model was a robot in disguise.

Have you seen this guy from the UK's work before? It is art, his placement and the messages behind each peice is spot on.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/9stencil.html

[Lord-Miroku-Sama]

I remember back when I used to live in Illinois how me and a friend used to go into these abandoned buildings.
There was one building that was very different, it was all locked up so noone could get in. Well me and my friend went into another building and found the key for the pad-lock that kept people from entering it.
It was completly dark there, no power or anything. Thank god it was during the day. We went up to the top floor and I noticed something really fucking creepy written on theses big double-doors at the top.
Written across them was "Go away or they all die" at this point me and my friend decided to go back and get flashlights because it was getting dark out but we weren't able to because his damn mom wouldn't let us go back out:(

[ahz]

At 6/28/03 10:16 PM, Anti-Hero0 wrote: If you love trespassing, being chased by the cops and climbing to hight places, graffiti is for you man, because besides your own satisfaccion, you will get respect from other writers.

Of course it will take you a couple of years to perfect your styles ;)

WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH A USER NAME LIEK anti-hero0 !? omgf good to see you back carbunkle

[MissenLinx]

I love having the adrenelen rush too, *don't correct my spelling* Its nothing funner then running away from someone bigger then you and getting away, I used to do it all the time when I skateboarded in the city but I don;t do that much no more,

[SeeYaMoron]

At 6/28/03 10:35 PM, My-anus-is-BLEEDING wrote: Have you seen this guy from the UK's work before? It is art, his placement and the messages behind each peice is spot on.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/9stencil.html

Im not sure if what he does can be called graff, but hes right in one thing, billboards are an insult to the eye.

hEY WHATS UP WANKER_

>:))))))))))))))

[SeeYaMoron]

At 6/28/03 11:01 PM, MissenLinx wrote: I love having the adrenelen rush too, *don't correct my spelling* Its nothing funner then running away from someone bigger then you and getting away, I used to do it all the time when I skateboarded in the city but I don;t do that much no more,

Yeah, the police can be a huge pain in the ass especially to skaters, they hate them for no reason, once they beat the shit out of my brother because he skated in front of them and took his pot, the faggots.

[SubNoctem]

At 6/28/03 10:13 PM, My-anus-is-BLEEDING wrote: stuff

Yeah, that's what I do, but causing assholes discomfort is much more fun and extremly pleasing.

[Nylo]

I can't say I've ever like sang on a bus. I talk to strangers all the time when I have to take the bus somewhere. I've got a pretty open mind and never really see my day as monotonous, and if I do a generally take a new corse of action; I hate being bored. I can see that affecting the settled down grownup world more than youth. Taking into account that monotony of some peoples lives in business and marriage, etc. I can see what you mean by reality hacking. I think the only one who's really commented negative about it is Vamp; but he's never happy, so that doesn't really count. The concept is interesting.

[ahz]

At 6/28/03 11:09 PM, Anti-Hero0 wrote:

Yeah, the police can be a huge pain in the ass especially to skaters, they hate them for no reason, once they beat the shit out of my brother because he skated in front of them and took his pot, the faggots.

i fucking hate cops >>>>=(((

[TomFlump]

i like the idea. me and my friends (now that we have a car) drive up this busy street almost every weekend with fireworks (the kind you light, they shoot 40 feet into the air, and then boom, pretty colors). we pull off into a vacant lot near the road and set off a few and then run. the adrenaline rush is awesome. and hopefully some grumpy man in his 40s, who is driving by, says to himself "heh... i remember those days..." i vote yes for reality hacking.

[Nylo]

At 6/28/03 11:09 PM, TheVampire wrote: Yeah, that's what I do, but causing assholes discomfort is much more fun and extremly pleasing.

Lol, nasty.

[Kiwi-Clock]

At 6/28/03 11:09 PM, TheVampire wrote: Yeah, that's what I do, but causing assholes discomfort is much more fun and extremly pleasing.

it is hard to resist sometimes..

Does anyone live in Sydney here? I want to try this prank out:

I'll need about 5 or 6 people for it, ranging from teens to 30s. We all wait to get on a bus at different stops, dressed as all sorts of different everyday people, a highschool student, a business man, a builder, a skater, a podgey guy with poor dress sense, a girl listening to her walkman, that sort of thing.

The first gets on intermitently humming a tune as they stand in the isle, the next gets on and casually begins to whistle the tune as the bus approaches the next stop, now two more pranksters get on and one sits down quietly while the other starts to humm/whistle/sing quietly along until the last person gets on and one person starts singing, quietly at first but then as the others one by one join in they finaly all begin singing with FEELING!! And the true TEST would be to see how many people you could get to JOIN IN!!

This would require some balls on behalf of all people involved, and a bit of luck with the public transportation, but I think it could be a worthy project, I'll have to start recruiting asap! Funny what you come up with after 23hrs of being awake!

[Kiwi-Clock]

At 6/28/03 11:21 PM, FrankTheTank wrote: Something that reminded me

Aw yeah! The other night I was hopelessly waiting for the shitty public transport and a car pulled up with three dodgey looking fellas yelling DO You want a ride to MAROUBRA?! I jumped in and we drove around asking other people, even people on bikes and bouncers outside clubs.. they dropped me at my door!! that's an $18 fare in a taxi, pretty funny, I geuss my life is kind of interesting at times..

[hugh-jarse]

Mate.. I live in Perth.. The smallest Capital City apart from Darwin.. We couldnt do shit like that anywhere! We have the occasional abandoned building of course but if we climbed into it there would be no where else to go.. We dont have lines and lines of them nor could we do shit if there was one or two.. I wish I could though!!

[misterx2000]

I sometimes use Netbus on unassuming people, and some ICQ tricks, but I can't really hack, it hurts my brain.

[allpro]

At 6/28/03 09:36 PM, My-anus-is-BLEEDING wrote:

i got my finds to paly tag and later we palted hide and seak in thes park at night no loring after 11 so cops patrol after 11 and ask us to leave

anywho one day ther was gonna be some fight there and all this crap so one cop told us to leave by the far back of the park adn thers only one way out really so we waked towad it and this other crazy cop pulled his gun on us and was all srecaming and shit crazy

i ve been in construcing sights like 50 people have pissed in this girls basment before they finshed off the house and somone told her and she freaked out ... haha

uhm yah im scared of hgiths but i like odd little aventures