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...blood sport, but once an election is over, people try to put politics aside. What amazed me about Washington was that people would sit in my office who were Democrats that would say, ‘I’d like to work with the administration on solving X, but I can’t because my caucus won’t let me.’ People of good will can find ways to rule the country together, maybe not exactly precisely the same way they would if they had their own way, but nonetheless be able to move...
...movement in defining black identity. The book makes the case, through biographical examination of certain representative artists, that Black Power has not died out but has merely been channeled through the new black musical form; artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop’s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation...
...skills and methods overlap. Since 1996, Nick Veasey has been combining the art of photography and the science of radiology to create images that reveal the surprising, fragile, sometimes disturbing inner structures of the human body, animals, plants and objects. He's collected around 200 of his favorites in X-Ray: See Through the World Around You, out in Britain this month...
...started when, given a chance to play with a scanner, Veasey chose to X-ray his own worn-out sneakers, the first of many "junk" items - toys, teacups, gadgets - he's since experimented with. "They may look awful on the surface," Veasey writes, "but once the internal workings are revealed ... all objects can be appreciated for their structure...
...Veasey has a studio in an old radar station lined with a foot of lead and equipped with an industrial scanner 60 times as powerful as medical ones. But to make a life-size X ray of a Boeing 777 for Boston's Logan Airport in 2003, even that wasn't enough - he needed artistic ingenuity too. Over several months, he digitally stitched together 500 separate X-rays of the plane. The resulting picture is exquisite and gets beneath the surface of every detail. Except for the pilot and crew: for them, Veasey used skeletons as stand...