The Force in the Flesh is a super glossy coffee table book with 400 photos, telling the individual stories of 45 different Star Wars tattoo collectors and artists from all over the world. The sample pages on the website shows there are some seriously good and seriously messed up designs in here - R2D2 and Princess Leia, for example, are beyond random.
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The Force In The Flesh
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