Now I totally understand what is “to look for a needle in a haystack”.

Search for Marilyn Monroe’s photo continues. The first step was to try “Marylin Monroe” in Google Images. Yuck! Look at the first one! Was it a mummy?
So I gave up. Tried “Monroe Nike” again. Bingo! Here is it! But who is Janet Champ? The lady who wrote the quote “A WOMAN IS OFTEN MEASURED by the things she cannot control”? The search for “Janet Champ” came up with a few links. This one is pretty intriguing. It says:

Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, OR
Nike
Women’s Fitness
Grand Prize Winner
Creative Directors: Dan Wieden, David Kennedy
Art Director: Charlotte Moore
Copywriter: Janet Champ
Photographer/Illustrator: Michael O’Brien

Was the guy named MIchael O’Brien who took the picture? Why the agency was not the Roger Richman Agency, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA but Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, OR.

That was an ad for two pieces of cotton, leather, and rubber called Nike Women’s Aerobic Shoes, from NetPreneur.

Life as Research Assistant is always full of challenges. You never know what the next task would be. Here comes one. I was asked to find out who owns the copyright of a photo of Marilyn Monroe. The most bizarre thing is the photo was presented in an ad for Nike but I don’t think the brand of Nike already existed when the photo was firstly taken. Dr. Wolburg told me some advertising agency might have bought the copyright, but she was not sure if the contract has expired or not. So my job is to figure out who owns the photo now. My only clues are Marilyn Monroe, Nike ad, and the Roger Richman Agency, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA. I googled it, and the most relavent thread is a post by a guy who was seeking for the picture then. But it was nearly 2 years ago. What am I supposed to do? If anyone of you happens to know something about this pic, would you please let me know? I might try Google Answer if I have no other choices but a few bucks.

I just posted the picture FYI. And the following is the text next to the picture:

A WOMAN IS OFTEN MEASURED by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn’t curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-26 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that don’t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because every woman know, measurements are only statistics and STATISTICS LIE.