Donald Featherstone (other)
Don or Donald Featherstone may refer to: * Don Featherstone (artist) (1936–2015), creator of the pink flamingo lawn ornament * Don Featherstone (filmmaker), professional documentary filmmaker * Don Featherstone (filmmaker, 1902–1984), amateur filmmaker * Donald Featherstone (wargamer) Donald F. Featherstone (20 March 1918 – 3 September 2013) was a British author of more than forty books on wargaming and military history. Life Donald Featherstone was born on 20 March 1918 in London.

Don Featherstone (artist)
Donald Featherstone (January 25, 1936 – June 22, 2015) was an American artist most widely known for his 1957 creation of the plastic pink flamingo while working for Union Products. Featherstone resided in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, where he kept 57 plastic flamingos on his back lawn. Featherstone and his wife Nancy dressed alike for over 35 years. Biography Featherstone was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1936 and grew up in nearby Berlin. After graduating from the Worcester Art Museum's art school, in 1957, he was offered a job designing three-dimensional animals for Union Products, Inc. Over his years at Union Products, Featherstone sculpted over 750 different items, the first two of which were a girl with a water can and a boy with a dog. When Featherstone was asked in 1957 to sculpt a duck, he purchased one, which he named Charlie, and later released the bird in Coggshall Park. Later that year, he was asked to carve a flamingo. The now iconic pink flamingo went on sale ...
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Don Featherstone (filmmaker)
Don Featherstone is an Australian filmmaker. His work includes documentaries about significant figures in Australian arts and culture, including authors David Malouf and Tim Winton, artist Brett Whiteley and dancer Robert Helpmann. Featherstone's works address social and historical issues such as beach culture, ''The Beach'', gangs, ''The One Percenters'' about the Milperra Massacre, and war, Kokoda. Featherstone's satirical mockumentary A mockumentary (a blend of ''mock'' and ''documentary''), fake documentary or docu-comedy is a type of film or television show depicting fictional events but presented as a documentary. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on c ... for television, '' BabaKiueria'', has been the subject of academic comparative analysis of imperial historicity and postcolonial social progress. It has also been included in cultural exchanges, for example in "Southern Exposure" between the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Museum O ...
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Don Featherstone (filmmaker, 1902–1984)
Sydney (Don) Featherstone (1902–1984) is known for his work as an amateur filmmaker in Australia, being awarded a British Empire Medal for services to cinephotography. Featherstone was an awarded ambulance officer, receiving the insignia of the serving brother of the Order of St John in 1966. From the 1920s to the 1980s Featherstone made 55 films across genre including fiction, travel, history, and documentary. His work was mainly focussed on the Darling Downs, and includes the 1954 royal visit. Early life and education Featherstone was born on 16 November 1902 at Darlington, England. He was the second of six sons. His father, Joseph Featherstone, was a railway shunter and an ambulanceman. His mother was Eliza Dorothy, née Moody. Featherstone started school at Harrowgate Hill Primary School, Darlington. The family migrated to Toowoomba, Queensland in 1911, and Featherstone's education continued at Toowoomba East State School to 1914, when he left school at the a ...
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