<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8587b8ad-5268-43ec-9270-f90166cb6681/1DCE7EE1-028B-4836-B520-E2CDED6F2E26/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/" href="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/" style="font-size: 11px;">pingmag.jp</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><H2>Masaru Tatsuki’s Decotora Photo Op</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/53A08EDA-D6E1-4F71-9FD8-94722D903128" alt="Masaru Tatsuki’s Decotora Photo Op" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><DIV class="picturecaptionlong">Cold neon signs in a dark cityscape... It's a "Decotora," one of the decorated trucks that light up Japan's highways in a vivid amusement park style. From Masaru Tatsuki's photo book "Decotora, 1998-2007 Japanese Art Truck Scene" published by <A href="http://www.littlemore.co.jp/english/indexeg.html">Little More</A>. © Masaru Tatsuki</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><STRONG>And how did you get the idea of covering decorated trucks and their owners?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><P>I found them simply interesting. It is always exciting to see these flashy trucks speeding down the highway! In the summer of 1998, I attended an event that brought together nearly a hundred of these trucks. It was really overwhelming to see them all and follow them around…</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/86404352-6B59-49D0-98E3-B49854CD53A5" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/9FC15BA8-73E1-4C50-B5E2-8879B583D07E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/D7E9FF2E-24D5-408A-B9A3-B2B46FACE84F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/5452D1D2-3996-4C7A-8BAC-F91CFAF26D4F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/D740DDAB-FD3A-4A1B-BA52-231296FA2408" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/0A2EDD04-2F6B-46B3-8C93-EA97904CE5AA" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://pingmag.jp/2008/01/31/decotora/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/pingmag.jp/img/8E86E613-B8A1-41DA-8C49-ACF4A9BC8124" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DCE7EE1-028B-4836-B520-E2CDED6F2E26/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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