Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings, and has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

Graffiti has long appeared on railroad boxcars and subways.

Marc Ecko, an urban clothing designer, has been an advocate of graffiti as an art form during this period, stating that " Graffiti is without question the most powerful art movement in recent history and has been a driving inspiration throughout my career.

For example, Graffiti Research Lab has encouraged the use of projected images and magnetic light-emitting diodes as new media for graffiti writers.

Graffiti often has a reputation as part of a subculture that rebels against authority, although the considerations of the practitioners often diverge and can relate to a wide range of attitudes.

Graffiti has been used as a means of advertising both legally and illegally.

Other books that focus on graffiti include Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer, Trespass by Taschen press, and the comic book Concrete Immortalz by Elite Gudz, which has a graffiti artist as its main character.

The studio has produced not only the films of Coppola ( including Apocalypse Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Tetro ), but also George Lucas's pre-Star Wars films ( THX 1138 and American Graffiti ), as well as many others by such cutting-edge directors as Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, Wim Wenders and Godfrey Reggio.

The phone has physical buttons for cellphone use, arranged on a flip which covers the Palm buttons, Graffiti area, and part of the screen.

The bottom half is a thumb-sized keyboard for typing, and it has no silkscreened Graffiti input area.

Each area has hidden items to collect, including Graffiti Souls, which unlock new graffiti designs, and Hidden Tapes which unlock additional missions where more Graffiti Souls can be earned.

The CDMA phone has a clamshell-style design, with the 160 × 240 pixel color display on the top half, and the Graffiti area and telephone keypad on the bottom half.

Graffiti characteristic of the Gangster Disciples has been reportedly seen in U. S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A collected and expanded version of all three of the original publications, titled " How to Make Trouble and Influence People: Pranks, Hoaxes, Graffiti and Mischief-making from across Australia " ( ISBN 9780980415117 ) has been collated by Iain McIntyre and Breakdown Press for release in October 2009.

The prank has been repeated on police and gangster cars in scenes in the films American Graffiti and Gone in 60 Seconds.

It has been used in Cool Whip commercials ( lyrics changed from " cool jerk " to " cool whip ") and for many movie soundtracks, including More American Graffiti ( 1979 ), Night and the City ( 1992 ), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York ( 1992 ), and Calendar Girl ( 1993 ).

Klark Kent has developed the Online Graffiti Game " Bomb the World " where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide.

Graffiti has also occurred, as well as the whole hospital suffering from damage from leaking rainwater that has subsequently caused extensive mould, damp floors and a flooded basement.

The song has been sung in films and on TV shows, for example by Harrison Ford in the film American Graffiti ( 1978 reissue ), by an itinerant chanteuse in Crossing Delancey ( 1988 ), by Jon Bon Jovi on Ally McBeal in the episode " Homecoming " ( 2002 ) and by Bert in episode 102 on the Muppet Show ( 1977 ) to Connie Stevens.

In between Yankovic projects, Schwartz continues to play with other L. A .- area artists and bands and has worked with Rip Masters, Jim Silvers, Karling Abbeygate, the Black Plate Kings, Ray Campi, Raymond And Scum, ApologetiX ( specifically the album Biblical Graffiti, where he played drums on seven of the tracks ), Lousy Little Gods, and Idle Hands.

While Prince's earlier theatrical failures Under the Cherry Moon and Sign o ' the Times have become cult classics, Graffiti Bridge has yet to achieve any status outside its initial box-office flop.

Graffiti is often seen as having become intertwined with hip hop culture and the myriad international styles derived from New York City Subway graffiti.

Graffiti, In the US a common form of the misdemeanor vandalism.

Graffiti is a common form of vandalism.

Graffiti on public property is common in many inner cities as part of a gang culture ; however, other more serious forms of vandalism that may take place during public unrest such as rioting can involve the willful destruction of public and private property.

A notable accomplishment of this effort was the discovery of a set of " lost " photos in the Magnum archive, from the shooting of the movie American Graffiti, achieved through a combination of human tagging and machine intelligence: The crowdsourcing identified the individuals in the photos ( e. g., George Lucas, Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, and Mackenzie Phillips, shown in separate photos from one shooting ), but then the underlying machine process connected these together to see what is common among them.

* Graffiti Markup Language, a specifically formated XML file designed to be a common open structure for archiving gestural graffiti motion data into a text file

Graffiti of stick figures are found throughout history, often scratched with a sharp object on hard surfaces such as stone or concrete walls.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.

Within the United States Graffiti Artists such as Mike Giant, Pursue, Rime, Noah and countless others have made careers in skateboard, apparel and shoe design for companies such as DC Shoes, Adidas, Rebel8 Osiris or Circa Meanwhile there are many others such as DZINE, Daze, Blade, The Mac that have made the switch to gallery artists often times not even using their initial medium, spray paint.

Graffiti artist John Fekner, called " caption writer to the urban environment, adman for the opposition " by writer Lucy Lippard, was involved in direct art interventions within New York City's decaying urban environment in the mid-seventies through the eighties.

Graffiti artists constantly have the looming threat of facing consequences for displaying their graffiti.

One early example is the " Graffiti Tunnel " located at the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney, which is available for use by any student at the University to tag, advertise, poster and create " art ".

Graffiti databases have increased in the past decade because they allow vandalism incidents to be fully documented against an offender and help the police and prosecution charge and prosecute offenders for multiple counts of vandalism.

A review in Rolling Stone magazine referred to Physical Graffiti as Led Zeppelin's " bid for artistic respectability ", adding that the only bands Led Zeppelin had to compete with for the title " The World's Best Rock Band " were The Rolling Stones and The Who.

Graffiti on the wall: "' to think for myself ' became less favorable ".

He was then hired to build cabinets at the home of director George Lucas, who subsequently cast him in a pivotal supporting role for his film American Graffiti ( 1973 ).

In 1974, the original version of the song returned to the American charts when it was used as the theme for the movie American Graffiti and a re-recorded version by Haley was used as the opening theme for the TV series Happy Days during its first two seasons.

* The original Haley recording is in the soundtrack for the film American Graffiti ( 1973 ).

He also began work on a number of musical projects, including Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic and early drafts of his Graffiti Bridge film, but both were put on hold when he was asked by Batman director Tim Burton to record several songs for the upcoming live-action adaptation.

The Zoomer failed commercially, but Palm managed to survive through selling synchronization software for HP devices, and the Graffiti handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton MessagePad.

Her first television appearance was on the pilot for a hip hop television dance show, Graffiti Rock in 1984.

Jim Kerr suggested that Simple Minds had enough material from the Graffiti Soul recording sessions for two albums, one to be released at the start of 2009 and the second following within the space of a year.

Graffiti improved usability by defining a set of " unistrokes ", or one-stroke forms, for each character.

Graffiti was originally written by Palm, Inc. as the recognition system for GEOS-based devices such as HP's OmniGo 120 or the Magic Cap-line and was available as an alternate recognition system for the Apple Newton MessagePad, when NewtonOS 1. 0 couldn't recognize handwriting very well.