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Love at First Sight

Vue Animals posted on Dec 15, 2009
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It was love at first sight for the American public when a young designer named Don Featherstone designed the first plastic lawn flamingo. He couldn't get his hands on real flamingos, so he used photographs from a National Geographic in its place. He sculpted the original out of clay, which was then used to make a plaster cast. The plaster cast, in turn, was used to form the molds for the plastic. The original design called for detailed wooden legs, but they proved to be too costly and were replaced by the metal ones still seen today. While the exact date was never recorded, the first pink flamingo was born some time during 1957. After the release of John Waters's 1972 movie "Pink Flamingos", plastic flamingos came to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch. Since then it has become an icon of pop culture, and won Don Featherstone an ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996. Rendered in Vue 8i with no postwork. Models: PC Dream House (DAZ), American and Plastic Lawn Flamingos from SBRM Flamingos (Me)

Comments (9)


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Orinoor

8:56PM | Tue, 15 December 2009

Great work, wonderful humor and history, beautiful render, tops!

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kelvinhughes

9:11PM | Tue, 15 December 2009

love it excellrnt image

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Kerya

12:17AM | Wed, 16 December 2009

ROTFL! Great idea. :D And a great bird! And a great render!

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PointLady

2:11AM | Wed, 16 December 2009

Fun image,very well done though. Like the setting. He wont get far with that flamingo lawn ornament lol. Jan

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Flint_Hawk

11:59AM | Wed, 16 December 2009

This really made me smile! Your flamingo is great!

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npauling

6:47PM | Wed, 16 December 2009

I'm having a chuckle as I would have loved to have had one of those flamingos in my garden a way back then but you couldn't get them down here then. I love how you have done this image.

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Ridley5

11:10AM | Fri, 18 December 2009

Lol, I always wondered if any flamingos ever tried that. Nice!!

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Stardust_Crossing

7:24PM | Fri, 18 December 2009

Nice idea and interesting scene! Lovely and charming!

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Digital_Mischief

12:23PM | Mon, 12 April 2010

Oh, that's funny. Thanks for the 'florida yard icon's background - never gave a thought where they came from.


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