Obama in Butter

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obama-in-butter/?scp=1&sq=obama%20butter&st=cse

TOLEDO, Iowa – He’s like buttah.

Barack Obama arrived at the South Tama County Middle School auditorium tonight to deliver the stump speech that he debuted this morning, and to woo Toledo’s undecideds. But the bonus of this stump stop – both for the candidate and his weary press corps – was what he called a “butter bust of Obama:” a likeness of his distinctive head in butter, perched on a table underneath a basketball goal.

Before launching into his speech, Mr. Obama made sure to thank the artist, Duffy Lyon, known in these parts as the “Butter Cow Lady” for her life-sized butter cows at the Iowa State Fair that draw presidential hopefuls for photo ops. In October, Ms. Lyon, who was in the crowd tonight, endorsed the senator and appeared in a radio ad for him.

Tonight, Mr. Obama pointed her out in the crowd and called her an “important dignitary.”

“I hope you didn’t make my ears too big,” he said.

She didn’t.

President-elect Barack Obama inspires an artistic flood of creativity
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-090105-obama-art-photogallery,0,7204752.photogallery

Better with butter

(Getty photo by Scott Olson / December 27, 2007)

Norma Lyon touches up her butter sculpture of Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama following a town hall style meeting by the candidate at South Tama Middle School in Toledo, Iowa. The bust was made from 23 pounds of butter. The stop was part of today's scheduled five-city campaign swing in the central part of the state in an attempt to gather last-minute support before
the January 3 caucus.




Organ Donor spot revolves around young organ recipient; Brit superband Coldplay donates music

The spot is part commercial as Adelstein & Associates buys $1 million in media, and part PSA as stations and theaters donate earned media time.

Featured is donated music by British superband, Coldplay. The song is "The Scientist" from Coldplay's Grammy Award-winning album, "A Rush of Blood to the Head."

The contributed Coldplay music follows the tradition since 2001 of using songs by famous artists on Organ Donor spots.

Tonisha Daniel of Dolton was selected because she's living proof that the organ donor program works, said Lundin. "We use her going on stage as a metaphor to dramatize her starting the next stage of her new, healthy life."

Daniel stars in a play, with other teens, that was created especially for the commercial.

The Donor Program has been so successful, said Lundin, "that Illinois has the highest donor registry in the country, with donations up over 54 percent."

Budget was approximately $27,000. Lundin shot on 16mm to make it look like a documentary at the Chicago Historical Society theatre.

Eric Adelstein was executive producer and co-writer; editor, Nick Kofski; camera, Andrew Dryer; art director, Abbie Jacobson; finishing by Swell; sound by Bosco Productions.

Lundin can be reached at 773/991-5655.

- Ruth L Ratny

from 10 April 05

One month after Tonisha Daniel and her family appeared on a 2004 radio spot talking about organ donation, she became a liver recipient.

This year's commercial for the Illinois Secretary of State's Organ/Tissue Donor Program features a healthy Tonisha, 16, getting ready to go on stage.

The annual spot was produced for the seventh year by Adelstein & Associates, and was co-written, produced and directed by Carey Lundin. It airs during April and May on TV, radio and movie theatres.