DePhoMo'12 The Pakistani Rickshaw at Universal Orlando

Remembering Pakistan in Universal Orlando (November 2012)

Right inside the Islands Of Adventure at Universal Orlando Resort, parked at the Port Of Entry, was the rickshaw. This little baby is a very common vehicle in Pakistan, the country I originate from.
It's a piece of art and the driver spends, I believe, his entire wealth on making it look this way. The patterns, colors, and poetry written on the vehicle is now a traditional art genre in Pakistan, the transport art. Usually, the poetry and phrases written on the rickshaw are hilarious!
The vehicle starts with a hilarious sound that goes:
"Dug dug dug dug dug dug dug" and then picks up like "Draaa dug dug dug dug" and on the road it goes "Draaaaaaaaaaaaaa dug dug dug draaaaaaaaaaaaaa draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"  contiuously throughout the journey. I have ridden this once or twice in my lifetime and each time I found my ears ringing for a good few minutes after i disembarked.

Poetry, public messages, heart break quotes, humor, women, hunting, and fiction art are common to transport art. This particular art form began from trucks and has now spread to buses and rickshaws. 

Fast Facts:

"Americans got a tiny taste of Pakistani truck painting in the summer of 2002 at theSmithsonian Folklife Festival, when Ali and bodywork expert Jamil ud-Din brought a truck from Karachi to Washington, D.C. They decorated it right there on the National Mall, as outdoor artists-in-residence. As a talent scout for the festival’s Silk Road theme, truck aficionado Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, an anthropology professor at the University of Michigan and a top us scholar of Pakistani culture, chose the pair for their versatility in incorporating the country’s disparate styles of truck art. Their finished masterpiece, a 1976 Bedford, is now part of the Smithsonian’s permanent collection. (Photo to the right)" [Ref: Pakistaniat.com]