- Plastic flamingo
Pink plastic flamingos are one of the most famous of
lawn ornament s, along with garden gnomes and other such ornamentation.The pink
flamingo was designed in1957 by Don Featherstone while working for Union Products, and has become an icon of pop culture, as well as a statementcite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1102/p20s01-lihc.html |date=2006 |title=Backstory: Extinction of an American icon? |publisher="Christian Science Monitor " |first=Clayton |last=Collins |accessdate=2008-04-23 Published: November 2, 2006] , and won him theIg Noble Prize for Art in 1996. It has even spawned alawn greeting industry where flocks of pink flamingos are installed on a victim's lawn in the dark of night. Plastic flamingos are widely considered to be the stereotypical example of lawnkitsch .Union Products, of
Leominster, Massachusetts , stopped production of pink flamingos on November 1, 2006. However, HMC International LLC, a subsidiary ofFaster-Form Corporation , purchased the copyright and plastic molds of Featherstone's original plastic flamingos in2007 , and will be resuming production of them inWestmoreland, New York . [cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18967357/ |title=Retro pink flamingos to hatch in New York |date=2007|publisher="MSNBC "|accessdate=2008-04-23 Published: May 31, 2007. From theAssociated Press , on the purchase and re-production of Don Featherstone's original plastic-flamingo design.]Pink flamingos are the namesake of the
1972 moviePink flamingos by John Waters. [cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15515764/ |title=Is the pink flamingo an endangered species? |date=2006|publisher="MSNBC "|accessdate=2008-04-23 Published: November 1, 2006. From theAssociated Press ]References
*cite web |url=http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/19/pink_flamingos_rip.html |first=David |last=Pescovitz |title=Pink flamingos, RIP |accessdate=2008-04-23 |date=2006 |publisher=
BoingBoing Published: October 19, 2006.
*cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/opinion/17price.html |title=In the Pink No More |publisher="The New York Times " |date=2006 |accessdate=2008-04-23 |last=Price |first=Jenny Published November 17, 2006 - Reflects on the shutdown of the original plastic-flamingo factory and the flamingo's impact on popular culture.
*cite book |url=http://www.amazon.com/Original-Pink-Flamingos-Splendor-Grass/dp/0764309633 |title=The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass |last=Featherstone |first=Don |last2=Herzing |first2=Tom |date=1999 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing |isbn=978-0764309632
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