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

The Berlin Wall was also extensively covered by Graffiti reflecting social pressures relating to the oppressive Soviet rule over the GDR.

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.

In 1975, Led Zeppelin's double album Physical Graffiti, was their first release on the Swan Song label.

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

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 ).

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.

Graffiti with Lin Biao's foreword to Mao's Little Red Book, Lin's name ( lower right ) was later scratched out, presumably after his death

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.

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

It was not unlike the small broadcast studio depicted in the film American Graffiti ( which was filmed at KRE-AM in Berkeley ).

It was this station that George Lucas featured in the 1973 movie American Graffiti.

* Wolfman Jack gives more details about the career of this disc jockey who was featured in the 1973 movie American Graffiti.

Though movie director George Lucas may claim American Graffiti was his youth in Modesto, thousands of Valley teenagers claimed " Van Nuys Blvd cruise night " as a vital teenage right of passage.

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

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.

The following month, Freddy was booked on Henry Chalfant's " Graffiti Rock " performance with Rock Steady Crew at Common Ground gallery in SoHo ( not to be confused with Holman's Graffiti Rock TV show pilot ).

" His hard hitting style was displayed to great effect on many Led Zeppelin songs, including " Immigrant Song " ( Led Zeppelin III ), " When the Levee Breaks " ( Led Zeppelin IV / 70px ), " Kashmir " ( Physical Graffiti ), " The Ocean " ( Houses of the Holy ), and " Achilles Last Stand " ( Presence ).

Quikwriting was developed as an alternative to Graffiti.

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

" Graffiti " is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into a surface.

Other games which feature graffiti include Bomb the World ( 2004 ), an online graffiti simulation created by graffiti artist Klark Kent where users can virtually paint trains at 20 locations worldwide, and Super Mario Sunshine ( 2002 ), in which the hero, Mario must clean the city of graffiti left by the villain, Bowser Jr. in a plotline which evokes the successes of the Anti-Graffiti Task Force of New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ( a manifestation of " broken window theory ") or those of the " Graffiti Blasters " of Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Graffiti by Miss Van and Ciou in Barcelona

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.

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 ".

* The yellow hot rod driven by Paul Le Mat in Lucas ' 1973 film American Graffiti shows the license plate THX 138.

* Graffiti Cleaning Machine, a 28, 300-lb retrofitted hi-rail box truck used by the MTA.

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

The Graffiti handwriting recognition was found to infringe on a patent held by Xerox, and Palm replaced Graffiti with a licensed version of the CIC handwriting recognition which, while also supporting unistroke forms, pre-dated the Xerox patent.

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.

An Android version was released in 2010 by ACCESS CO., LTD. of Japan, which acquired the rights to Graffiti when it acquired PalmSource, Inc. in 2005.

Graffiti 2 was used by later Palm OS implementations.

He was also mentioned in the Jeff Lindsay book " Dexter by Design ", and in Norman Mailer's book " The Faith of Graffiti ".

Hawkins believed that people would take the time to learn Graffiti just as people learn to touch-type.

When asked in 2000 if he would ever like to return to acting, Howard replied, " Only if I can act with Cindy Williams again ", referring to the actress who played opposite him in American Graffiti.

Paul Le Mat ( born September 22, 1945 ) is an American actor who first came to prominence in the 1973 film American Graffiti, which won him the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actor.

It was used extensively by Led Zeppelin, who recorded tracks there for all of their studio albums up to and including Physical Graffiti in 1975.

Ron Smith also co-created the anti-hero Chopper in " Unamerican Graffiti " and Dave the orang-utan who became Mayor of Mega-City One.

Their longtime fill-in drummer, Keith Harrold ( played on Isn't Wasn't Ain't and Keep The Change ), David McKee ( played on Jesus Christ Morningstar as well as two concerts in 1998 ), and Jon " Bermuda " Schwartz ( drummer for " Weird Al " Yankovic ), who played 7 tracks on Biblical Graffiti.

But the move alienated many long-time Palm users, who were quite happy with the previous version of Graffiti, which they claimed was much easier to use ( though perhaps not to learn ).

Below is listed the names and units of those who have been identified in the Graffiti House:

Below is listed the names of those who have not been identified in the Graffiti House:

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.

In 1950 the advertising time on XEG came under the control of Harold Schwartz of Chicago who also came to represent XERB-AM near Tijuana / Rosarito, Baja California, the station made famous in the movie American Graffiti.

His film 21-87 was a profound influence on director George Lucas, who used thematic approaches from 21 – 87 in THX 1138, his Star Wars films and also American Graffiti.

The cover was painted by Grammy Award winning artist Peter Corriston who would later create famous album covers for Led Zeppelin ( Physical Graffiti ) and The Rolling Stones ( Some Girls, Tattoo You ).

It also came to notice of parts of the mainstream film industry, such as Los Angeles Times film critic Charles Champlin, and Ned Tanen, then a Universal Studios production executive, who was later involved with Lucas ' American Graffiti.