Angelina Jolie’s Tattoos
By indoorouthouse | May 15, 2009
Angelina Jolie is famous for being a little bit of a bad girl. And every bad girl has a bunch of tattoos to prove it! Angelina is no exception. She has a love of tattoos, and has had several inked and then removed, like the one of a dragon with her second husbands name above it (Billy Bob Thornton).
Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton
Angelina Jolie with Billy Bob Thornton Dragon Tattoo
Wow, she looks so young and fresh-faced with her tattoos in those pics.
Of course, once she and Billy Bob split up, it was time for Angelina to get rid of the tattoo. I rekon she must have turned to the internet and consulted the beginners guide to tattoo removal creams. In it’s place, she now has a tattoo of the latitude and longitude of where her children were born, which is pretty cool if you ask me…….here they are:
N11° 33′ 00″ E104° 51′ 00″ : Cambodia where Maddox (Jolie’s eldest son) was born.
N09° 02′ 00″ E038° 45′ 00″ : Jolie’s daughter Zahara was born in Ethiopia.
S22° 40′ 26″ E014° 31′ 40″ : Swakopmund saw Jolie and Brad Pitt welcome daughter Shiloh.
N10° 46′ 00″ E106° 41′ 40″ : Pax Thien was born in Vietnam.
Angelina has a lot of other tattoos as well - she has an Arabic tattoo on her right arm which covers up some abstract lines that she had tattooed with Billy Bob Thornton. She also has a tattoo on her left shoulder which is a Buddhist blessing written in Khmer (the Cambodian language). The tattoo is meant to protect Angelina and Maddox from bad luck. Apparently, the translation goes something like:
May your enemies run far away from you.
If you acquire riches, may they remain yours always.
Your beauty will be that of Apsara.
Wherever you may go, many will attend, serve and protect you, surrounding you on all sides.
Angelina Jolie's Buddhist Tattoo
She also has a roman numeral tattooed under her left arm, as well as a quote from Tennessee Williams. We could go on, but I think you get the idea. This girl has a lot of tattoos - clearly she loves her body art!
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Victoria Beckham Hebrew Tattoo
By indoorouthouse | May 8, 2009
Victoria Beckham, who really needs no introduction being as she was one of the Spice Girls and followed up by marrying David Beckham has a love affair with tattoos. One of the more interesting tattoos she has is on her upper back and neck and is a lovely tattoo of a verse from the Song of Solomon.
Victoria Beckham's Hebrew Tattoo
The verse she has had tattooed on her back is in fact verse 6:3 from the Song of Solomon and reads:
I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
That’s really much nicer than the tramp stamp she has on her lower back which is more like something you might get slapped on in a drunken haze in Ibiza:
Victoria Beckham's Tramp Stamp
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Tattoos
By indoorouthouse | December 8, 2008
Tattoos have always been marks of status and rank. They have been used through the centuries as symbols of devotion in religious circles and as marks and symbols in spiritual circles the world over. Closely related is scarification which has also been used for similar things - the legendary shaolin temple in China was reputed to make their monks pick up a boiling cauldron with the inside of their forearms before the monks could leave the temple. The cauldron was cast with a symbol of a dragon on one side and a tiger on the other. The monks would then be burned with two symbols, forever marking them as having trained at the shaolin temple. This is just one example of the many uses of tattoos for identifying members of certain societies in the world and also the use of a very painful form of tattooing (though it isn’t strictly a tattoo) as a rite of passage. Elsewhere, tattoos have been used as decorations to denote bravery. Often in tribal cultures, tattoos were and are used to show the battles a young man has fought, and the enemies vanguished. Other times, tattoos are used to create a fearsome effect before going into battle. These are sometimes temporary tattoos. In fact, tattoos have been used as symbols of pretty much anything and everything through the ages, from marks of fertility (such as Kokopelli) to pledges of love (such as the wedding ring which was originally a tattoo created by cutting the ring finger and rubbing dye into the wound to cause a permanent tattoo). Some tats are created as amulets for protection. These powerful talismans are said to offer the wearer specific protection from various nafarious forces, and the deep seated superstitious and spiritual nature of humans makes these sorts of tattoos very popular. More sinister uses for tattoos have been to label outcasts or slaves and even convicts (for example the tattoos used in Nazi prisons).
Tattoos in western culture have a rich variety of uses, from identifaction of gangs to memorial or sentimental reasons.
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Viggo Mortensen’s Russian Mafia Tattoos
By indoorouthouse | November 14, 2008
Viggo Mortensen, who is probably most famous for his role in the Lord of the Rings trillogy, played and excellent role as a Russian Gangster in David Cronenburg’s film Eastern Promises. For his role, Viggo prepared by visiting Russia and talking to former mafia members in LA.
He wore 43 Russian Mafia tattoos for the film. The Russian Mafia is also know as Vory V Zakone which is roughly translated as “thieves in law” reffering to the brotherhood and honour among thieves. Eastern Promises is a great piece of cinema and features the tattoos of the Vory V Zakone as a central and recurring theme.
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Criminal Tattoos
By indoorouthouse | November 5, 2008
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History of tattoos
By indoorouthouse | October 28, 2008
Tattoos are decorative body modifications consisting of permanent markings on the skin made by artificially inserting ink into the layers of the skin. This permanently changes the pigment of the skin. Tattoos are found in every culture throughout the world and some of the earliest practices of tattooing can be found on Otzi the Iceman who dates from the fourth to fifth millennium BC and was found in the Alps. In Japan, tatooing is believed to be an even older tradition, spanning back some ten thousand years. Some of the mummies of Ancient Egypt have been found to have tattoos as well.
Tattoos are usually created by inserting pigment and dyes underneath the surface of the skin. There are various methods of doing this - the most basic is to rub a cut or wound with ashes. Once the wound heals, the skin that has scarred over the wound will be permanently dyed. In fact, wedding rings used to be made permanent by cutting a ring around the 3rd finger and rubbing black gunpowder into the wound, causing a permanent tattoo. This eventually gave rise to the tradition of wearing a ring on the finger.
In the eighteenth century, explorers discovered the Polynesian practice of tatau which probably gave rise to tattooing in more modern western culture. European sailors were the first to take up the Polynesian practice and from there, it spread throughout Europe.
Tattoos were originally “hand-poked” - i.e. the ink was inserted under the skin using hand made needles that could be made of virtually any substance from bamboo to steel. Traditional Japanese tattooing is still done this way, as are criminal tattoos that are inked in prisons such as the tattoos of the Russian mafia.
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