Verification code check your email for the verification code. Try to whitelist our email address noreply sharetv. Resend verification email. Also Watch Miami Ink. Tattoo Wars. Tattoo Highway. Tattoo Nightmares. Top Contributors. We all know why people really get them; it's all about vanity, fashion-slavery, and low IQs. Anyone can make up some sad story about why they need the tattoo, but what it's really about is having a celebrity like Kat Fondue stick metal objects into your body on a nationally broadcast TV show.
This simple but idiotic and expensive act makes certain types of individuals feel as if they'd joined the "hip crowd", i. Hence the inferiority complex and the exhibitionist impulse to be at center of attention having a lot to do with it too. In that sense, LAI has evolved into a bizarre and unique show, whose recipe is pretty much taking that whole quasi-tough tattoo-bum biker sub-culture and then dipping it into some truly lame schmaltz which one normally gets in soppy Hollywood chick-flicks.
So I can well imagine this show's demographics ranging from bored and boring middle-aged housewives to puberty-stricken teens to aging hence increasingly sentimental Hell's Angels. They can't sell their souls to ensure the success of their latest show-biz product, but what they can do is sacrifice a piece of their skin for it. How goofy must it feel to have a woman looking like a Goth Emo stick a hot metal objects right above your ass while you tearfully recount whatever sentimental twaddle you'd prepared by heart as your raison-de-tattooeaux?
I can't even imagine it, but I can certainly see it. No-one will deny the talent that Kat Fondue and her employees possess, but shouldn't they rather be drawing their neat little pictures on paper or on a canvas instead? Skin is a living, breathing organ, the largest one there is, I'm not so sure it was intended for inky butchery. No wonder it sometimes rebels by getting infected. It is trying to tell its daft owner something.
What I'd like to see is an antidote show to LAI, a TV series which follows people who are trying to get rid of their old tattoos. It could be called "L. Laser", and would feature people with touching but also funny stories of how dumb they once were for allowing themselves to mutilate their skin, and all in the name of fashion and "hipness".
Laser" should be situated right across the street from "L. Its workers could watch as their future customers leave Kat's place. And they would smile, and we'd smile along with them - at least those of us who aren't slaves to idiotic fads.
FAQ 1. Who made the pendants that Kat gave to her team? Details Edit. Release date August 7, United States. United States. Official site. As Monterey County Weekly found in an interview, LA Ink was one of a few choices she had as her Rock of Love off-ramp and the show had her cast as a destabilizing force in press releases Fisher wasn't even aware of.
So goes reality television — and so went Aubry Fisher's brief, dramatic time as a member of the LA Ink crew. When it comes to reality television, this controversy runs to a fever pitch , and LA Ink was no exception.
The statement released by TLC is typically dry network fare. Nothing out of the ordinary or untoward there, just a show reaching a natural end and making room for new programming. Wrong, according to Kat Von D. In my opinion, any attempt to compromise the honesty of that would be an insult to my fans and viewers. Watching Von D and the crew scramble to get ready for such a massive undertaking made for some truly great television, plus some lasting memories for those who participated and have the ink to prove it.
It remains one of the most talked-about aspects of the show years after its end, and a remarkable feat of tattoo artistry in and of itself. It has, however, been broken in the years since the episode was shot. Cantrell didn't just outpace Von D — he blazed by her to arrive at a mindboggling tattoos, the last one made on his own thigh. Similarly to Von D's choice of a simple, stylized "LA," Cantrell's record-breaking tattoo choice was a two-tone AZ, now inscribed forever in the skin of proud Arizonans.
Though Von D's record no longer stands, the tattoos made for it do — as do the stories of those who participated. Not everyone stays in the world of tattooing. Kat Von D herself is a great example — though tattoo art is still very much part of her brand and her look, she's also a force in the world of cosmetics and fashion. As established, more than a few of the other stars of LA Ink also have passions and stakes in other forms of artistry, recreation, and entertainment.
Few, however, establish themselves so firmly outside the world that made them famous as Pixie Acia. A glance at her website reveals how entirely her focus has changed. Surfer, snowboarder, mountain climbing yogi. Philanthropy enthusiast, owner of pooches, rescue advocate.
The outspoken reality star made no secret of her disappointment in how the production team chose to highlight her very public break up with serial cheater Jesse James.
Per Kat, this depiction was one of the reasons she stopped filming LA Ink. After show-favorite Pixie Acia left the series following the first season, she was replaced by Aubry Fisher in the show's third season.
Fisher, no stranger to reality television she appeared on VH1's Rock of Love , was brought in to stir up drama. Her time on the show also only lasted a single season. Season three of LA Ink was all about bringing the drama.
Kat and Aubrey quarreled, and the shop went head to head with another well-known inking establishment, American Electric. This rivalry was supposed to showcase Kat's team and paint them in a good light, but American Electric had their act together and head tat artist, Craig Jackson, actually made Kat's crew look worse! LA Ink showcases the team of expert tattoo artists giving ink to their artsy-hungry customers, but any old ink-seeker was not likely to get their body art from Kat and the crew who we saw on television.
Every day customers didn't waltz in on film days to get inked, and when they were able to get through the doors of High Voltage, they were likely to be tatted up by a B-Team of artists.
Some reality shows have to infuse their plots with more drama to bulk up the ratings, but not LA Ink. Word on the street is there was never any shortage of drama with Kat Von D and her tattoo crew. In fact, there was so much drama on this hit reality show that much of it had to be edited out! Calling all customers!
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