Miami Ink:
The shop, which was called 305 Ink (with 305 being a reference to the Miami Area Code) before the show started, is now called Love Hate Tattoo and is co-owned by tattoo artists Ami James and Chris Nunez, and also features artists Chrsi Carver, Darren Brass, Tim Hendricks and Yoji Harada. Californian artists James "Sword-Crosser" Hamilton, Luke Wessman, Mikey Slater and JMorgwn Pennypacker and two floor managers Guy Sahar and Lee "On One Knee" Rodriguez. Kat von D first joined the shop during the first season while Brass had an injured arm.She then returned as a full time crew member for two seasons, after which she returned to Los Angeles and landed her own Miami Ink spin-off entitled LA Ink which premiered in August 2007. Another spinoff, London Ink began on Discovery Real Time in the UK in September 2007. On October 28, 2008, a third spin-off, called Rio Ink, featuring a Rio de Janeiro tattooshop, aired on the Discovery Channel People & Arts channel in Brazil.
