BehindTheInk.com member tattoodrew says, “well i would have to say i like angelina jolies tatts 1.she isnt too covered wth them 2.shes traditional with the art 3.and best of all not only it bein g traditional art…… its done the traditional way long before the machine was invented tatts were being done im not really a writer im more a drawer is that makes sense???? maybe it doesnt oh well i hope this is good enough…lol”
Jolie’s inventory of tattoos has become the subject of much media attention and has often been addressed by interviewers. Jolie stated that, while she is not opposed to film nudity, the large number of tattoos on her body has forced filmmakers to become more creative when planning nude or love scenes. Make-up has been used to cover up the tattoos in many of her productions. She frequently adds or even changes existing tattoos and has said that all the tattoos she possesses have a special meaning. Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos, among them a Tennessee Williams quote “A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages” which she got together with her mother, the Arabic phrase “العزيمة” (strength of will), the Latin proverb “quod me nutrit me destruit” (what nourishes me also destroys me), and a Buddhist Pali prayer written in the Khmer script for her son Maddox. She also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her left shoulder indicating the birthplaces of her children. Over time she covered or lasered several of her tattoos, including “Billy Bob”, the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton, a Chinese character for death (死) and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time.
BehindTheInk.com member cave20man says, “Chris Garver is one of the greatest tattoo “artist” of the era. Every tattoo that he does, he does it with so much passion and artistic ability. The great artistic views he has upon his work are so very amazing. Miami Ink is a great show, but as far as just seeing what Garver is capable of, you really have to get into the site and just focus on Garver and then you can really check out his awesome work.”
Chris Garver, (born September 11, 1970), was raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Garver received his first professional tattoo at age 15, experimented with tattooing by the age of 17 and moved to New York in his early twenties. Chris has tattooed in Asia, both Americas and throughout Europe. His name is symomymous with some of the best tattoo work in the industry of body ink. He is a tattoo artist featured on Miami Ink.
He lived in Japan where he was tattooed by the famous Japanese Irezumi artists Horiyoshi III, Horitomo, and Horitoshi. He has also been tattooed by a Buddhist Monk.
BehindTheInk.com Member Azriel says, “i met the lead singer from 12 stones and his ink was very amazing because he had a sleeve that was tyed in with stars.”
Paul McCoy (born September 7, 1981), the lead singer of New Orleans hard rock band 12 Stones was a tattoo artist before starting the band.
BehindTheInk.com Member TattooNeil says, Enclosed is a photo of myself tattooing rock & roll hall of famer, Gregg All man, in Minneapolis on 6-25-79. Gregg has been collecting tattoos for over 3 0 years, & wears art from the lengendary Lyle Tuttle, Spider Cross, Shotsie Gorman, Neil Grant, as well as quite a few others. He is an avid tattoo love r & proudly displays his art onstage, in print, & on film.”
Gregory Lenoir Allman (born December 8, 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee), known as Gregg Allman (sometimes spelled Greg Allman), is a rock and blues singer, keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 with The Allman Brothers Band, and personally received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
BehindTheInk.com member Moreira says, “i will have to say kat von D is the celebrity i admire the must her talent is so amazing and shes very cocky about wich i think is great all her ink i s just so amazing from her mom and dad ink to the mi vida loca ink.”
BIO:
Kat Von D (Katherine Von Drachenberg) was born March 8 and is best known for guest appearances on Miami Ink. She is now starring in her own tattoo show, LA Ink, which premiered August 7, 2007.
Kat Von D was born to Mexican parents René Drachenberg and Sylvia Galeano in Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1982. At age four, she and her family emigrated to the United States, settling in Colton, California. Von D is of German and Mexican-Italian descent. She did her first tattoo on herself at the age of 14, a letter “J” in Old English style on her ankle. Her first work on someone else, a Misfits(Crimson Ghost) skull, was done soon after. She first started working for a tattoo shop at age sixteen under mentor Tim Hendricks.
Until recently in 2007, Kat lived in Hollywood, California and worked at True Tattoo, owned by Clay Decker. Later, she joined the Miami Ink shop in Miami, Florida during the shop’s first season of their reality television show of the same name. However, at the end of season two, she left the Miami shop, and thus was no longer a part of the tv show, after a series of escalating personal differences with fellow tattoo artist and shop owner Ami James. Kat then returned to Los Angeles to open her own shop High Voltage Tattoo and landed her own Miami Ink spin-off entitled LA Ink which premiered in August 2007.
Besides her previous series’ namesake shop, Miami Ink, she has also worked at Elm Street Tattoo in Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas. Kat is frequently a featured artist at tattooing conferences in the United States and Canada.
Known for her barefoot performances and neo-hippie fashions, Stone changed her style to a harder-edged, purple-haired look to promote Introducing Joss Stone. The other day, Joss Stone went to a local tattoo parlor and inked the side of her head with a flower. A couple other sources commented that getting a simple flower pattern was too “soft” for the location of her tattoo. Apparently, neck tattoos should be more “menacing”. Personally, I think neck tattoos should whatever the owner wants them to be.
Travis’ first tattoo was the word “BONES” (a nickname when he was a kid) on his leg which he got when he was 17 years old. Another notable addition is the phrase “SELF MADE” spelled out across his knuckles which he got in 2000. Some of Travis’ numerous tattoos include religious art as he says he was brought up Catholic. He has a portrait of Jesus above his left biceps, hands in prayer on the left side of his head (visible with his signature mohawk) and a Sacred Heart. He has a few tattoos that symbolize his love for cars and Cadillacs in particular - two racing flags on the side of his neck with the number 66 which symbolizes the year of his favorite Cadillac and a Cadillac emblem surrounded by mudflap girls on his chest as well as a pair of spark plugs.
Much of his body art is devoted to his love of music such as the phrase “Can I Say” which is the name of Dag Nasty’s first album, a microphone, and a boom box on his stomach for his love of breakdancing when he was growing up. He also has the word “HOPE” on his back because of the Descendents’ song and something positive after his mother’s death. He has another tribute to the Descendents on his leg - the cover art to the album, I Don’t Want To Grow Up, drumsticks and musical notes on his right arm.
Travis also makes several tributes to his family with the phrase “familia” on his arm, Japanese flowers on the back of his neck with a heart that says “Mom”, and another heart with “SHANNA” on the banner. He also has the name of his first wife, “Melissa,” just above the racing flags on the side of his neck.
He considers his right arm his “good luck arm” and so has many luck emblems tattooed on that arm such as a deck of cards, dice, a dollar sign, his lucky number seven, a skull with the number 13 in the eye sockets (13 is a lucky number in the tattoo culture), and a rabbit’s foot, in addition to a martini glass, his initials, a devil from Black Label Skateboards, and a spider web surrounding his elbow.
In explanation of his large number of tattoos Travis has said, “I tattooed my body so I couldn’t fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn’t get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.” Travis claims to have spent over $30,000 on his body art.
Christina Ricci is such a big fan of the lion from JRR Tolkien’s children’s book series ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, that she’s now got a tattoo of it on her back. The actress showed off her tattoo when she stepped out wearing a backless dress when she arrived at the Gramercy Park Hotel recently. “It’s Aslan, the lion God of Narnia, from ‘The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,’” the New York Daily News quoted her, as saying. Ricci, who is the new face for Samsonite Black Label’s new Fashionaire luggage collection, revealed that she had a motive for choosing Aslan, for the tattoo is a symbol of her ‘hellish childhood’. “It was a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years, and when I turned 18, I escaped. Like Aslan, I was finally free,” she said.
Chris Carrabba is the lead singer and guitarist of Acoustic-alternative band, Dashboard Confessional.He has a clean-cut Calvin Klein model physique dressed in a permanent suit of custom-designed hint-of-bad-boy tattoos.He said of his unerasable keepsake album, “Each tattoo reflects a memory from something I experienced in my life. They also help me to permanently commemorate events like being on the road and other special moments in my life.” Source: Metro Spirit
Blender magazine recently asked, “Which was your very first tattoo, and what were the circumstances?”
My first tattoo is kind of a line-art thing. It’s a little jailhouse-looking. It was done in my friend’s back room in
South Florida with a mail-order tattoo gun. I was was 15 or 16. He could draw well — I’m sure he went on to become a wonderful tattoo artist — but I was the guinea pig. When you get a tattoo, you get spots of blood. I was gushing as if I’d been stabbed by a butcher’s knife. The tattoo has since raised like three inches. It looks like a muscle or something. My mother said, “Were you drunk?” And I was offended, because I ran with the straight-edge scene.Source: Blender
