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the plural of flamingo is flamingos, or flamingoes. this is a herd of wild plastic flamingoes. gorgeous.Related content
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Farewell Flamingo Man - A Story and a FeatureI've always been fascinated by the reportedly "tacky" pink plastic yard decor that has adorned the front lawns of everywhere from mansions to trailer parks and everywhere in between - the plastic flamingo. I have yet to purchase a set of my own (traditionally they're sold in pairs) but one day, one day. It thus makes me sad that today I read that the creator of this iconic piece of lawn art, Donald Featherstone, has died today at the age of 79.
Featherstone received the Ig Nobel Art Prize, a parody prize that mocks the pomp and circumstance of its obviously more famous cousin, for the precocious piece of pink garden fodder which made people laugh and then go on to think about all manner of things.
The classic pink flamingos were produced by Union Products, Inc, the same company who created the mold for my beloved punk yard duck - also, I've discovered created by none other than Donald Featherstone.
The pink flamingo speaks to a history of America, as wr
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Real sweet, what program did you use to edit this?
or did you use a specialcamera with filters and that ?
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i just used a polaroid 320 land camera. it was in production from 1969-1971, and uses polaroid 669 film. the only editing i did was using photoshop to make the scanned image look exactly like the real photgraph. i didn't embellish
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Sweet mate.
How much do those things cost?
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it seems a scenery of a film like a comedy.. i like it!
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lol. you're right! thanks for the comment
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