Kat Von D Does DJ AM Tattoo

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DJ Fashen wanted to pay tribute to his good friend DJ AM and went to Kat Von D for one of her famous tattoos. Here is Adam’s face newly marked on Fashen’s forearm.

My tribute to Adam. Thank you Kat Von D and @karolinaturek

What do you think about the ink? Did Kat do Adam Goldstein justice? Do you think more people will tattoo DJ AM’s face on their body?

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83 Responses to Kat Von D Does DJ AM Tattoo

  1. mcashflash says:

    The tatoo artist is clearly very talented, however his face is not quite right. I don’t think I’d have recognized him without the name.
    It’s a very nice tribute to him though. Sad that he went through a tragic accident, survived, but then fell to drugs. I can’t imagine the pressure in Hollywood to be popular.

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  2. OutInLeftField says:

    Didn’t he die of a drug overdose? Why is everyone tribulizing him? He needed help, he died of a drug overdose. I like the poster’s idea of helping out people who have drug problems is a much better tribute than tattooing his face. I think I just made up a word, tribulizing.

  3. Anonymous says:

    That doesn’t look anything like him!!

  4. Anonymous says:

    the tattoo artist did a fantastic job! As far the person who got the tattoo is an idiot. DJ AM was a crack head. Why the hell do we celebrate drug addicts? Makes no sense. If he was such a great person why did he kill himself? He would of thought about all the people that he’s hurting.

  5. anniedawg25 says:

    DJ AM and Travis Barker from Blink 182 did some pretty good work together….mixes and rap/rock mashups. Check out some of their stuff on Youtube! It’s good stuff to work out too! ha ha ***annie***

  6. Anonymous says:

    don’t you think that since he passed away quite recently you could keep the dumb crack head jokes to yourself….i mean i didn’t know him….but i wouldn’t go around makin cracks on someone who just died….I have a conscience!!! You didn’t know him either, and certainly don’t know much…which is proven by your comment…..so unless you know what your talking about……keep it in your little mind, where you don’t have to burden others with your witless comments.

  7. meme says:

    STFU you insensitive a**hat. People who commit suicide or attempt it are in such emotional pain they only think about ending the pain not what’s left in the aftermath.

  8. bgduckie_01 says:

    kat usually does a good job but this one doesnt look like dj am. i mean, its a good portrait but doesnt look like him. either way, if he was a close friend to dj am, i understand he always wants to keep him close to him. im pretty sure travis barker will do something similar since he has a lot of tattoos.

  9. megegers says:

    its a good tattoo– a good portrait– but it doesnt look a thing like him!

  10. jordan says:

    it looks more like Bud Bundy from Married with Children

  11. elaine123 says:

    I think the drugs were always there (ie before the crash). The irony of commiting suicide after surviving a plane crash is mind-blowing.

  12. elaine123 says:

    He committed suicide. He smoked a bunch of crack, barricaded himself in his room so people couldn’t easily get in, and swallowed 8 Oxys with one still in his mouth when they found him.

  13. elaine123 says:

    I agree, that’s an insensitive remark, BUT, I have to admit that we (society) should not glorify or celebrate drug addicts. Celebrate his life because of all the good things he may have done and remember him for that.

  14. Mui says:

    love kat, but this looks like a dane cook tattoo

  15. Anonymous says:

    She’s a douche bag and her ink sux; and so is DJ AM for throwing his life away on drugs.

    I really don’t care if i come off insensitive. I’ve lost friends emotionally and pysically to drugs and i have NO sympathy for the druggie.

    i feel horrible for the friends and family DJ AM left behind. i miss my druggie friends… i hope the ones still alive can come back sometime and i will always miss the ones that have passed.

  16. Anonymous says:

    totally agree with you. i don’t care if he passed an hour ago his actions were selfish and disgusting……

  17. Anonymous says:

    looks like mike rowe

  18. Anonymous says:

    That’s a shit tattoo

  19. Anonymous says:

    Looks like Bud Bundy…

  20. RR Fields says:

    Wow… DJ Fashen must be a real dummy. Get a life, would ya?

  21. JennM. says:

    Ehh.. it looks like Bud Bundy if you ask me!

  22. Ariel says:

    Well, I guess when you have a friend who dies from an overdose or otherwise,you can make a donation to the associated charity.

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  23. Ariel says:

    At best, this is a very ignorant comment.

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  24. Ariel says:

    I don’t see this as celebrating a drug addict. Maybe the person who got the tattoo was a close friend. Maybe this is how he chose to remember DJ AM.

    If a smoker dies of lung cancer and a surviving family member gets that person’s name or image tattooed on themselves, would you consider that a glorification of smoking?

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  25. Ariel says:

    Your comment is woefully ignorant. You have no idea what he was going through. None of us do. It’s unkind to assume he was just some idiot who overdosed.

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  26. Ariel says:

    Clearly, you have no empathy. It’s not as if drug addicts are all people who have no problems and do drugs for sh*ts and giggles. Some people have really big problems. Drugs shouldn’t be an answer, but I’m not going to get on a high horse about it, considering that I have been blessed with financial advantages and people who love me.

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  27. Anonymous says:

    definitely looks like Mike Rowe

  28. I hate dumbasses says:

    Leave him alone. he is not bothering you judgemental idiots. he’s where he wants to be now. he was suffering and damn it if some people deal with pain and stress better than others. Damn!!! how many of you could live with the memory of losing friends in a fiery plane crash as well as look forward to your skin feeling like its on fire for the rest of your life. then again succumbing to an addiction you thought you overcame a long time ago. he must have felt a deep sense of hypocrisy since he just completed his show trying to be a Role Model to young drug addicts in helping them get clean. he must have felt he let everyone down. This guy was a good guy judging from all the heartpouring he’s getting from acquaintances, friends and family. when I met him he was genuine and personable and a lovely soul. not the typical indifferent men you meet nowadays. Almost like a little brother you want to look out for. concerned about everyone elses degree of comfort. God Bless You Adam. I’m sorry the life handed to you wasn’t a bit easier and less tragic. in my prayers.

  29. I hate dumbasses says:

    Leave him alone. he is not bothering you judgemental idiots. he’s where he wants to be now. he was suffering and damn it if some people deal with pain and stress better than others. Damn!!! how many of you could live with the memory of losing friends in a fiery plane crash as well as look forward to your skin feeling like its on fire for the rest of your life. then again succumbing to an addiction you thought you overcame a long time ago. he must have felt a deep sense of hypocrisy since he just completed his show trying to be a Role Model to young drug addicts in helping them get clean. he must have felt he let everyone down. This guy was a good guy judging from all the heartpouring he’s getting from acquaintances, friends and family. when I met him he was genuine and personable and a lovely soul. not the typical indifferent men you meet nowadays. Almost like a little brother you want to look out for. concerned about everyone elses degree of comfort. God Bless You Adam. I’m sorry the life handed to you wasn’t a bit easier and less tragic. in my prayers.

  30. Anonymous says:

    I think it looks very good, as do all of her portrait tattoos. And we don’t know what picture she was using. Usually the person getting the tattoo brings in a specific picture that he wants done. I’ll bet she nailed it (if we could see the pic she went off of).

  31. Anonymous says:

    Tattoos are stupid. Keep loved ones in your heart, don’t mar your body in their memory. I don’t even think it resembles him that much.

  32. Anonymous says:

    Fuck that shit that’s no DJ AM that’s CANTINFLAS,

  33. Lizzypoo says:

    That’s a lot of tattoo ~ Liz ~

  34. Nimbus says:

    Sorry but NONONONONONONOONONONO

  35. SimplySolitary says:

    Yeah, really don’t know why he’s famous, not to be rude. And I think it’s horribly morbid when people tattoo a face of someone dead on their body.

  36. Anonymous says:

    You should check out Kat’s myspace and look at her tattoo pics–the one she did of JonBenet is incredible.

  37. Pinchy says:

    Hey look, someone got a tattoo of Bud Bundy.

  38. elaine123 says:

    You’ve got a point.

  39. elaine123 says:

    what do “financial advantages” have to do with it? I don’t get it.

  40. Cleopatra says:

    She was fast deciding to do the tattoo …..

  41. Anonymous says:

    Looks like Mike Rowes forehead.

  42. Anonymous says:

    What a terrible tattoo. Not to mention the poor taste in exploiting his death. BTW IT looks like he is burning in hell or is it a plane…… EEEK!!!!

  43. Anonymous says:

    she made him look like billy bob thorton

  44. Gisela says:

    LOL!! I didn’t see it at first but you’re right.

  45. elaine123 says:

    I think he looks like John McEnroe.

  46. Gisela says:

    If DJAM was a dear close personal friend, then yes I see his friends getting a tattoo of him. He must have really meant a lot to DJ Fashen for him to permanently tattoo his face on his body.

  47. papyrus says:

    who’s DJ Fashen?

  48. Anonymous says:

    I think I would find a different way to pay tribute. Help somebody in need.
    This was a troubled young man, and what does a picture do?

  49. Ariel says:

    It reminds the bearer of someone he cared about. I say let people grieve in the way that suits them, as long as they aren’t hurting others.

    …counting the steps to the door of my heart…

  50. Anonymous says:

    It’s personal to the tattooed individual. Leave it at that.

  51. anniedawg25 says:

    LOVE Kat Von D and her work!!!! But…….this kinda doesnt look like him. But, she does always say, give it a few days for the color to really take shape. Regardless, what a nice tribute, he was really well respected in the DJ community. ***annie***

  52. C. says:

    I agree – she’s talented but he looks creepy! Not her best work.

  53. DonnaJ says:

    I love Kat too, but I don’t think the likeness is very good. Nice tribute though.

  54. Stephanie B says:

    At first glance it looks like Bud from Married with Children.

  55. meme says:

    that is so true. it doesn’t look like DJ AM much at all.

  56. Wonder_Woman says:

    Im sorry … but I still dont know who DJ AM…?

  57. Cleopatra says:

    Same here … I only know that he was a DJ .. lol

  58. Erika1980 says:

    I think he became well known when he was dating Nichole Richie

  59. Tanis says:

    That’s a pretty big tattoo! nice work though. So sad about DJ AM, so young, it’s a shame.

  60. Wonder_Woman says:

    He dated a lot of celebs … but that is the only reason he was famous?

  61. Erika1980 says:

    He’s “famous’ for being a DJ. He’s dated a bunch of celebs and he survived a plane crash. I never heard of him before dating Nicole Richie, but I can’t name any other famous DJ other than Ronson (obvi because of her relationship with Lindsay).

  62. elaine123 says:

    Cleopatra, that’s too funny…you only knew he was DJ. Where do you think his name comes from?

  63. Anonymous says:

    What a breathtakingly stupid sentiment. Everything is personal to someone. I’m sure Charles Manson had “personal” reasons for being a murderous nutjob. Obviously this person with this stupid tattoo is not hurting anyone else, let alone doing something evil, but there is simply no good reason why anyone is obligated to think it was an intelligent decision. Or even that it’s an attractive tattoo.
    I think a person must have a very low opinion of their own mental capacity if they think they might forget about someone important to them unless they get that person’s face or name tattooed on their body. And I think a person must be emotionally very stunted if they think it is healthy to make such permanent decisions about things that are important to them at such a young age. To think that the things and people that are massively important to you at any one time will be equally important when you are 55 years old, 75 years old, 85 years old, etc., is just bizarre and stubborn. You wouldn’t plan to wear the same outfit for the rest of your life until your dying day, so why plan to wear the same gigantic face on your body?

  64. Anonymous says:

    …and i suppose you’ll stop caring about everything you once loved when you get old, automatically? i think you must be emotionally stunted if you can’t fathom holding something so dear for the rest of your life that you could be symbolically joined with it via physical expression. i assume you don’t approve of marriage in any form because only the psychologically crippled would tie themselves to another for the rest of their life? it’s far more reasonable to get a stupid picture permanently inked on your flesh than it is to vow, even in your 30s or 40s, to stay with another human being who will certainly change and evolve and maybe become someone very different than they were. you’re an ignorant, judgmental twat. you have no reasoning to back you up, so shut TFU and stop pretending your opinion matters.

  65. elaine123 says:

    I agree with you anon @4:44. That person wounds like a pretentious twit.

  66. Anonymous says:

    Because someone close to you dying is exactly the same as your favorite t-shirt.

    I think your the one who needs to grow up if you can’t understand the logic behind memorial tattoos. They’re not my favorite (Cause they normally go horribly wrong, although this one looks pretty nice to me) but this is someone close to him who died, not something light and fluffy. Go bitch at the people who get tattoos of nazi unicorns.

  67. Anonymous says:

    Because someone close to you dying is exactly the same as your favorite t-shirt.

    I think your the one who needs to grow up if you can’t understand the logic behind memorial tattoos. They’re not my favorite (Cause they normally go horribly wrong, although this one looks pretty nice to me) but this is someone close to him who died, not something light and fluffy. Go bitch at the people who get tattoos of nazi unicorns.

  68. Loisan says:

    I think she is a marvellous tatoo artist!

  69. Anonymous says:

    I’m afraid to say but that looks more like the kid Bud from Married With Children

  70. shauna says:

    Dj Fashen is from Arizona! He’s an amazing artist and spins hip hop and dub music in LA. DJ AM was/is DJ Fashen’s friend and mentor. DJ FASHEN IS DOPE! Check out all his music!

  71. Bud Bundy says:

    You’re right guys, it does look like me.

  72. Chelle says:

    It does not look like him.

  73. Anonymous says:

    Looks like the guy thats does the Dirty Jobs show

  74. Anonymous says:

    Im sorry but this looks nothing like DJ AM !!! His eyes were dark brown not a light color and if your goin do a memorial tat …please get it right !!! R.I.P. DJ AM !!!

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  76. Anonymous says:

    this is the worst shit Ive ever seen. looks like bart simpson

  77. Anonymous says:

    looks like david faustino….nice one kvd14

  78. Robor says:

    Where are you from? Is it a secret? :)
    Have a nice day
    Robor

  79. Anonymous says:

    i think this is a good tattoo. the only reason it doesnt look that great is because she just got it done. and i think that really rude that someone will say it looks like he got in a plane crash. hes dead. theres no reason to start saying stupid things like that. and if someone wants to get a tattoo of someone that meant alot to them. WHO CARES. its not stupid. its a good memorial.

  80. Anonymous says:

    i think this is a good tattoo. the only reason it doesnt look that great is because she just got it done. and i think that really rude that someone will say it looks like he got in a plane crash. hes dead. theres no reason to start saying stupid things like that. and if someone wants to get a tattoo of someone that meant alot to them. WHO CARES. its not stupid. its a good memorial.

  81. Anonymous says:

    Great detail work, should clear up after a few days. Looks a bit like the Comedian Dane Cook though.

  82. Anonymous says:

    BUD BUNDY?

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