http://offbeatink.com Tattoo Design Ideas by OffBeatInk.com Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:41:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ever heard of Rescue Ink? Well, you should have (no, neither had we) because they are the epitome of inspirational and just plain fantastic human beings. I’ll tell you why… Rescue Ink is a group of people – well, men, for the most part -  almost all heavily tattooed, who work ... http://offbeatink.com/general/rescue-ink/ Davina McCall was born in 1967 in London. The world was never going to be the same. The wild child product of a messily broken marriage, she suffered anorexia and went a bit off the rails in her twenties, which was to be expected. However, during those days of drug ... http://offbeatink.com/articles/davina-mccall-whacky-tattoos/ The last weekend of September 2009 was a memorable one for East London. There were hundreds of tattoo and body artists from all over the globe attending and performing their trade from traditional Nordic facial tattoos applied with a chisel and hammer to heart-stopping full body designs ranging from Eastern ... http://offbeatink.com/tattoo-designs/london-tattoo-convention-2009/ Wim Delvoye is a Belgian conceptual artist known for hi rather unconventional endeavours. Born in 1965, he is a Dutchman and lives in Ghent. Among the weirdest of his projects is Wim Delvoye’s Art Farm in China. There, he has been tattooing pigs since the 1990s. Why ... http://offbeatink.com/articles/893/ Leona Lewis has what?! Yes, you heard me right. Squeaky clean Leona has gone and got her first tattoo. Imagine that! Ms Lewis has been East London’s darling ever since she won the X Factor program all those years ago. Simon Cowell was so impressed with her performance ... http://offbeatink.com/general/leona-lewis-got-her-first-tattoo/ The son of a dancer and a literature professor, Nicolas Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Cage changed his name so that his career would be judged on merit alone. He chose the name Cage for the cartoon hero, Luke Cage. He struggled to get started, despite studying acting, ... http://offbeatink.com/celebrities/the-fabulous-nic-cage/ They do say that a tattoo represents your soul on the outside. One group of people you would not normally expect to wish to portray their inner selves to the outside world is the quintessential reserved librarian. How wrong you would be!! A group of women representing the Texas Library Association ... http://offbeatink.com/general/tattooed-librarians/ Tattoo parties have been around for a long time. The idea is a simple one. A group of people get together at someone's house, a tattoo artist shows up and everyone gets a tattoo. Problem is that the tattoo artist is not necessarily qualified, the environment is not sterile, alcohol ... http://offbeatink.com/general/toxic-party/ How far? How about as far as Russia. Now, we all know that in everything there is a boundary that must not be crossed. Call it bad taste, call it social madness, even call it outright wrong. Russians have found just such a boundary and boldly gone where no true ... http://offbeatink.com/bizarre/tattoo-madness-taken-just-a-tad-too-far%e2%80%a6/ Jackson Rathbone is the actor playing the role of vampire Jasper Hale in the Twilight sequel New Moon. If you do not yet know who he is, I am certain you soon will. This young man’s path to stardom will be short. The multi-talented, and rather gorgeous, Rathbone also performs in ... http://offbeatink.com/celebrities/jackson-rathbone/