I have watched a few episodes, it's neat!  I mainly watch it for the artistic part, I'm way too chicken to get a tattoo!  Some of those tatoo's are beautiful though!

I liked A&E's Ink'd better while is lasted. But Miami Ink is good.

I like Ink'd because of all the freak shows and the odd celeb that walked in off the strip.  

 

I thought is was off the air but apparently there are new episodes coming

http://www.aetv.com/inked/index.jsp

 

editted - Sorry, I think it's a done.

-- Edited by SB at 22:04, 2006-02-26

yup i saw it when i was in poughkeepsie very good show. the owner is actually the one who changed my life back to me. he is jewish and said God is not going to judge you  for what your body looks like but  on what you do. i took religion up about 4 yrs ago got serious took out my piercings hid my tattoo. and was believeing if i had them then i would be judged.  I also changed my hair to a solid color . I found myself to be stuck up and very judgemental of others  and that is not me . not at all. my hubby hated the person i was becomeing and so do i. now i have  put my hair back to me mode and  im getting my piercings again and  probably  another tattoo or 2. I dont care let them judge me. As i just got a phone call from the church asking me if id be willing to  take out my piercing and change my hair  or step down from my calling i said im gonna step dopwn from my calling . and i said why . oh well lol but yeah  they are awesome people and i thank god he said that and opened my eyes.

Technically, it’s not about art that “God” as a problem with. If you believe the bible is “the word of God”, and a guide, then it states that the whole idea of tattoo’s, body piercing, and the like are offensive to him. More like disrespectful. Basically it’s about “the body” which you are to honor. In that, by keeping it clean and not “dressing it up with worldly things of gold, silver, and what have not.”. That is where all the “judgment” (as you put it), comes from.  If anyone really wanted to know……

 

I was watching one show where a person said they were getting this tattoo to honor their grandfather. I laughed and said, isn’t that ironic! LOL

Iam going to jump in here.  Most of u know Iam Jewish.  I am not very religous but nonetheless my wife is. At least she wants to be.  I have a strong desire to get a tattoo, a memorial one at that of 9-11.  My wife told me years ago NO TATTOOS . After a few years of not bringing it up, she got to a point of If you find an ORTHODOX rabbi who say its ok, then ink away.  Hmmmm  good luck finding one.  So i did some research. Here is one article on a UJF website.  More text to follow.

 

  Q: Is it true that you cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery if you have a tattoo?

A: Judaism teaches us that our that guys belong, as do all parts of nature, to God. They are on loan to us and we are responsible for caring for them. Any sort of mutilation of the body is, therefore, prohibited. Tattooing is prohibited, as is scarring, and some forms of elective cosmetic surgery.
There are criminal offenses that are so heinous as to bar someone from being buried in the Jewish cemetery. Despite the persistence of a myth to the contrary, a tattoo is not one of those offenses. There is no prohibition against burying someone with a tattoo in the Jewish cemetery.

This is s must read and it has pictures too.

   http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20040819.html