There she is, Miss … well it’s German model Regina Burton. Proving that I’ve got my priorities in order, I’ve spent the past 90 minutes trying to find a picture of The Woman from The Boeing Mural to post here, instead of working on the detailed analysis of the evolving nature of U.S.-China trade relations and the key role Puget Sound companies (like Boeing and Microsoft) are playing in that, which my boss expects me to finish today.
I suspect I know which one intrigues you more, so …
After last week’s column about the mural on the Everett factory doors, http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/04/05/100bus_corliss001.cfm, I decided on a whim to try contacting the photographer who made the picture, a German woman named Johanna Pagels. (Here’s a link to her Web site: http://www.fotopagels.de/ ) So I enlisted the help of a German-speaking friend — KPLU radio’s Bellamy Pailthorp — in composing an e-mail, fired it off into the void, and got a response.
Johanna was friendly, helpful and best of all — fairly fluent in English. She answered my questions, got in touch with Burton and gave me an e-mail address for Burton’s boyfriend, Matthias. I contacted him, and he promised via e-mail to put me in touch with Boeing’s favorite German model herself — and I’ve not heard anything from them since.
(But can you blame our friend Matthias? If some American guy, claiming to be a journalist of some sort, tries to get ahold of your lingerie-model girlfriend, would YOU facilitate that? I’d have to go out and find myself a lingerie-model girlfriend before I could say for sure, but I’m thinking … not.)
But I did find her Web site, which was useful. www.regina-burton.de
The result was my column in The Herald today: http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/04/12/100bus_corliss001.cfm
Key Quote: “It started out, Pagels said, as part of an ad for a cookie company. ‘Yes,’ she said by e-mail, ‘these healthy cookies are supposed to make you feel so light and free you can almost fly.’”
Hu Jintao’s visit to Everett next week is sucking up a lot of my time and energy this week, which is why I haven’t been posting much here. We should get back to more-normal discussions of aerospace issues after he leaves.
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