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.