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Guy Aitchison is one of the most well-respected American tattoo artists of all time. Best known for his visionary look on tattoo art, he has helped a multitude of artists realize tattoo art is much more than following a black line and shading. In fact, he has influenced the tattoo industry in an amazing way by opening up the eyes of tattoo artists to the endless possibilities in terms of tattoo artistry. He is well known for his incredible spiritual tattoos, biomechanics tattoos and imagery tattoos.

Guy was born in 1968 and graduated from high school in 1985. Always interested in art, he initially became an art department apprentice at The Jacklich Corporation for one year. He then went on to painting record covers for a few years and was lucky enough to work with acts like Vinnie Moore, David Chastain, Apocrypha, Hexx, Skatenigs and other Shrapnel Records California-based bands. He did approximately 40 record covers during his stint there. In 1989, Guy became interested in tattoo art and started apprenticing at Bob Oslons Custom Tattooing in Chicago, Illinois. He apprenticed for two years before he opened his own tattoo studio in Chicago. It was called Guilty & Innocent Productions. However, in 1998 Guy chose to close his extremely popular tattoo shop. This move shocked many people in the area. However, those who knew him well understood he wanted to travel the country and focus on his painting more. Highly publicized, Guy Aitchison work has been published in popular magazines like Outlaw Biker Tattoo, Easyrider Tattoo, Skin Art, Skin & Ink, International Tattoo Art and more. However, his tattoos are not the only things which earn him artist acclaim and praise. His paintings have a following all their own and have been published in Art Alternatives and Savage magazines. Respected not only by fans but also by other tattoo artist greats, Guys work is also featured in several artists books, including world renowned tattoo artist Don Ed Hardys Eye Tattooed America fine art book.

In addition to tattooing and painting, Guy Aitchison travels the world speaking to hundreds of artists each year at conventions and festivals. His tattoo seminars draw thousands of artists, almost immediately after they are announced as being available. He reaches out to other artists through his desktop-published tattoo manuals as well (The Graphic Language for Tattooists and Special Effects for Tattooists). Guy speaks freely of his passion for both tattooing and painting and says they both compete with each other for the first place in his heart, with neither holding the spot for long over the other. He appreciates the dedication required when working as a tattoo artist, claiming the industry is a very critical one because it deals with commercial art. In fact, he realizes and stresses to other tattoo artists the implications a client can have from any given tattoo project. He addresses the fact tattoo artists must be much more flexible and willing to adjust to the clients requests and ideas. Thus, he enjoys the wildness of the process in which the artist can chase after obscure and specific personal notions.

In addition to being a famous tattoo artist in his own right, Guy has an extremely famous tattoo artist sister. His sister is Hannah Aitchison, one of the original cast members of Kat Von Ds famous reality television TLC show, LA Ink. Hannah currently works at High Voltage Tattoo shop in Los Angeles, where the LA Ink show is filmed. Her style is similar to Guys because she has an open mind when it comes to tattooing. While Hannah is more focused on details and the mechanics of tattooing, she shares with her brother the unlimited potential she utilize to think out of the box and create amazing tattoo art pieces on her clients. Another cast member, Kim Saigh, also worked with Guy in Chicago before coming to do LA Ink. Kim has mentioned more than once that Guy was one of the most influential artists shes ever worked with. She credits him for opening her eyes more in the tattoo artistry world and has said Guy made her want to constantly strive to be a better overall artist. Guy Aitchison thinks of himself as being an artist who is most often focusing on natural geometry and organic tattoos. With interests in science, science fiction, religion and architecture, he is able to excel at a wide array of tattoo designs. His work is highly respected by his fans and all other tattoo artists around the world. When he speaks, artists listen.

Hayden Panettiere's birthday falls between July 23rd and August 22nd, making her astrological sign Leo. She pays homage to the Leo's characteristics with a small tattoo below her right ankle. The tattoo is the astrological symbol for the Zodiac sign Leo. Its curved design represents the mane or the tail of the lion, which gives the sign its inspiration. Leo's are said to be creative, arrogant, dramatic, bossy, generous and loyal. Hayden got her tattoo at seventeen and hid it from her mother for over a year. The tattoo was only revealed when she being body scanned for a special effect on her television series "Heroes". Her mother saw the tattoo, tried to rub it off and started to cry when she realized it was permanent.

Hayden Leslie Panettiere (born August 21, 1989) is an American actress. She began modeling as a baby and moved on to being a child actor, landing roles in the movie "Remember the Titans" and the TV show "Law and Order: SVU". She is currently playing the character Claire Bennet on the televisions series "Heroes". Hayden is also an accomplished singer that has recorded songs for some of the movies she's starred in. As she releases her debut album in 2009, she will be in the unusual position of releasing her first album with a Grammy nomination already under her belt for a recording she did for the movie "A Bug's Life". Hayden has been romantically linked to reality TV starStephen Colletti and "Heroes" co-star Milo Ventimiglia.

Eddie Vedder is big into environmental activism and shows it with a tattoo on his right calf. The tattoo is a logo of the group Earth First!, a monkey wrench crossed with a stone hammer. Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group formed in the late seventies. The logo for the organization indicates their commitment to "ecotage" or sabotage undertaken in the defense of the environment. They believe that all forms of life on Earth have equal value in and of themselves without regard for their utility to human beings. To them, this justifies an ecocentric view of the world. 

Eddie Louis Severson III (born December 23, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Vedder is his mother's maiden name and he changed his name to it after high school. He is best known as the lead singer and one of the three guitarists for the rock band Pearl Jam. In the mid to late eighties, Vedder did several stints in local bands like Rage Against the Machine, Bad Radio and Temple of the Dog. In 1990 he was hired to play in Pearl Jam and they were signed the next year. Their debut album, "Ten" began one of the best selling alternative albums of the nineties. They went on to release several multiplatinum albums throughout their career. Vedder is a political and environmental activist. He is also a vegetarian and animal rights activist. He married longtime girlfriend Beth Lieblin in 1994 and divorced in 2000. He is currently in a relationship with model Jill McCormick and they have two children.

Elijah Wood has one known tattoo a reminder of his time on the "Lord of the Rings" movie sets. He and eight other cast and crew members tattooed the Elvish word for "nine". The tattoo is written in Tengwar script and symbolizes the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring. It is also a reminder of the bonding experiences the cast and crew shared while making the epic film. Wood has said that the tattoo hurt but he would be willing to get another one if it was "significant to an experience or a moment."

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor. He has been acting since the age of eight, beginning with a part in "Back to the Future Part II". By thirteen, he had become a critically acclaimed child actor. Although Wood has been acting steadily for almost twenty years, he is best known for his role in the movie series "Lord of the Rings" as Frodo Baggins. He is also a well-known voice actor in video gaming as well as cartoons.