Graffiti and graffito are from the Italian word graffiato (" scratched ").

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

The Palm OS switch from Graffiti 1 to Graffiti 2 was triggered by Palm losing this suit to Xerox.

Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in American Graffiti and Star Wars, but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.

The name is said to derive from when Lucas was making one of his earlier films, American Graffiti.

Graffiti Kitchen, which Campbell considers the highpoint of the series, was published by Tundra in 1993, and The Dance of Lifey Death followed in 1994 from Dark Horse Comics.

Graffiti in Tijuana may seem at first to consist largely of simplistic tags and thus not as technically evolved, colorful, or accepted in the mainstream as the " pieces " of graffiti scenes of the United States, Europe, or Japan, but large, colorful graffiti murals adorn walls from both native Tijuanan artists as well as visiting graffiti writers, especially from California.

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.

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The original Graffiti system was the subject of a lawsuit from Xerox, claiming it violated Xerox's patent relating to its Unistrokes technology (, granted in 1997 ).

Palm got a demonstration of Unistrokes from PARC before they created their Graffiti system.

It replaced the original Graffiti system with a licensed variant of the Jot system from Communication Intelligence Corporation, which Palm refers to as Graffiti 2.

It differs from the original Graffiti system in various ways, though it does recognize some of the original keystrokes ( except the input method for punctuation and " i ", " k ", " q ", " t " and " 4 ").

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" ( The Time song ), a song by The Time, from Prince's 1990 Graffiti Bridge album

The names of these short-lived kings are attested on a few monuments and Graffiti, and their succession order is only known from the Turin Canon, although even this is not fully trusted.

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.

Stewart contributed to Led Zeppelin's " Rock and Roll " from Led Zeppelin IV and " Boogie with Stu " from Physical Graffiti, two numbers in traditional rock and roll vein, both featuring his boogie-woogie style.

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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.

Graffiti written by the officers stationed in the house was found on the walls in a closet on the third floor and is now on display at the Fairfax Museum.

Graffiti Bridge is a 1990 American rock musical drama film written, directed, and starring Prince.

Some of the early charts were written in the Graffiti format Tag style but was made legible enough for the masses.

In the beginning of the video the words " Graffiti Rock " can be seen and also heard in the sample.

Graffiti ( singular: graffito ; the plural is used as a mass noun ) is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place.

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

Graffiti circa 1960s on the wall of the Williamson Tunnels

The " Maryland Scroll ," a graffiti on the wall of the " Graffiti House ," in Brandy Station, Virginia, contains the names of 16 Maryland Confederates who served rifled gun # 1 of James Breathed's Battery and were on picket duty in Brandy Station on March 16, 1863.

It was drawn on March 16, 1863 by one or more unknown members of James Breathed's Battery on the wall of the Graffiti House, in Brandy Station, Virginia.

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.

Graffiti has become a common stepping stone for many members of both the art and design community in North America and abroad.

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.