Lucky Diamond Rich
Gregory Paul McLaren (born 1971)[source?], who uses the name Lucky Diamond Rich, is a New Zealand performance artist, street performer and international arts festival performer. He does sword swallowing and juggles on a unicycle.
The Guinness World Records has said he is "the world's most tattooed person" since 2006. Tom Leppard, from England, was the most tattooed person before him.[1][2]
Inspiration and first tattoo
He read about and became interested in the most tattooed men and women when he was a young boy. His first tattoo is of a small juggling club, on his hip.[3][3]
All of him is tattooed, including the insides of his eyelids, mouth, ears and foreskin. Some of his black tattoos has tattooed with white or colour.[4] His tattoos have been drawn on him for more than a thousand hours combined by hundreds of tattoo artists.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guinness World Records. "Most Tattooed Person". Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ↑ Totaro, Paola (December 16, 2004). Sydney's Lucky Diamond. http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Sydneys-Lucky-Diamond/2004/12/15/1102787149631.html. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brown, Thom. "An Interview with Lucky Diamond Rich by Thom Green of Mantra". Archived from the original on March 22, 2008. Retrieved 2007-05-07.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ Wynn, Kirsty (November 20, 2011). Lucky sharing his tattoo at gathering of ink fans. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10767269. Retrieved May 13, 2012.
Other websites
- Media related to Lucky Diamond Rich at Wikimedia Commons