RIP Don Featherstone

[easy]

Don Featherstone, the inventor of the plastic pink flamingo, died yesterday in Massachusetts.

Some quotes of his:

"An empty lawn is like an empty coffee table. You have to put something on it."

"We sold people tropical elegance in a box for less than $10. Before that, only the wealthy could afford to have bad taste."

"You don't take yourself too seriously because you're not getting out alive anyway."

 

[tomturbomatic]

Phoenicopterus ruber plasticus

I thought his name was so ironic considering the flamingos and other birds he invented. His first plastic bird was a duck, which he purchased and sketched while it swam around in the sink. When he was through with the drawings, he took it to a pond and released it.

 

[philr]

It's funny as the newly renovated art museum in my hometown (they have a lot of boring religious stuff there and I'm still frustrated that they lost some of my work from college when they displayed the stuff from art students many years ago!) had hundreds of Pink Flamingoes on the lawn to promote it's reopening just two weeks ago!

Also in my hometown an old woman who had a dispute with the city also displayed pin flamingoes all over her lawn for years to show her discontentment.

 

[blackstone]

Pink Flamingos for sale

In case anyone is the in the market:

http://www.thepinkflamingosite.com/index.php