#honfest

[bobastudios]

In a word: Flamingorgeous! 🌞🦩📸

We hopped over to HONfest to prepare for our upcoming announcement & but decided to also live it up while we were there! That's the Bal'more way, hon!

[harmcityherald]

Many support Planned Parenthood after initial ban at HONfest

[dritalion]

Pink flamingo

Pink flamingo movie#

Having been condemned in the press as “the filthiest person alive”, Divine has adopted the alias Babs Johnson, and fled to a derelict mobile home in the woods with her hillbilly son (Danny Mills), her son’s voyeuristic girlfriend (Mary Vivian Pearce), and her mother (Edith Massey), who is described by Waters in Shock Value as “a 250-pound senior citizen who sits in a playpen dressed in a girdle and bra and worships eggs”. Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by the stage name Divine, stars as a woman who is also called Divine, a vision in a tight sparkly dress, with a back-combed coiffure, and iconic eye make-up that reaches all the way up her forehead. “I would’ve loved to have had my picture taken with him under our big pink flamingo,” Café Hon owner Denise Whiting says of Featherstone.īut best of all, even as the country mourns the loss of the inventor (on Wednesday, Featherstone graced the cover of The New York Time s), his creative legacy lives on-those plastic feathered friends forever emblazoned in American memory as a symbol of novelty, and still stuck, neck arched and one-legged, into the Baltimore grass.The plot, says the BBFC’s website with exquisite understatement, “is unusual but fairly straightforward”. There are flamingos tucked into every corner of the neighborhood’s annual HonFest, on the treetops of 34th Street during the holidays, and, of course, in Cafe Hon, first opened in 1992, with its flamingo chandeliers, cocktails, and prodigious façade (which caused the Flamingogate of 2009). Up near The Avenue, pink flamingo populations are still alive and well. I think when it was innocent, it was much more touching and influential.” But then it went on to become: yuppies have it on their lawn! That’s when I gave all mine away. “And at the time, pink flamingos subtly questioned taste.

Pink flamingo movie#

“But it was always going to be called Pink Flamingos because it was a very calm title for a movie that was the opposite,” he says. Demented, and The Wire, found them for the film, along with other set pieces like a plate that read “God Bless Our Mobile Home.” Waters notes that Pink Flamingos production designer Vincent Peranio, who went on to do Homicide, Cecil B. (As does Madison, Wisconsin, whose council named the plastic pink flamingo their official city bird.) Through bouts of popularity all across the country, the pink flamingo has remained bound to our city, at one point or another designating Hampden as its unofficial urban district, which proudly wears the honor. Later, became like the hula-hoop, they became a huge fad, but they’ve gone through many, many changes over the years.” “When we made Pink Flamingos in the fall of ’71, nobody collected ’50s stuff-it was before ‘modern-antiques’ was even a term-and thrift shops were filled with it.Įverybody was collecting ’30s and ’40s stuff-even hippiesĭressed like they were the gold diggers of ’33-but nobody wanted to “I liked because the ’50s had not been revived yet,” says Waters. Just as Waters’ film was banned in theaters, some neighborhood associations started to ban the eyesores in their communities. Hippies opposed the use of plastic, and what had once been a symbol of taste quickly devolved into a tchotchke of tackiness. From California to Charm City, families welcomed the bright, beloved bird into their yards.īy the 1960s and ’70s, however, the flamingo’s mainstream popularity waned. With a burgeoning consumer society came the embrace of plastic and mass production, and hence, Featherstone’s tour de force. Same, but front lawns were a way to keep up with the Joneses and also standĪpart. All across the country, houses looked the II America was in a state of suburban sprawl, with baby-boom desire driving development of nuclear dream homes. One of his first assignments was to create the neon, umbrella-shaped bird, which debuted in 1957, and was soon immortalized in American culture. He attended art school there, honing his craft as a sculptor, before ultimately landing a job at a large manufacturer of lawn and garden decorations. Fittingly surnamed, Featherstone was not a Baltimore native but rather from Massachusetts. On Monday, the plastic bird’s inventor, Don Featherstone, passed away at the age of 79, nearly 60 years after his famed flamingo first came off the assembly line. “That may have been the beginning of my obsession with them, because whatever I was told I wasn’t supposed to like, I always did.” “When I grew up, I think my mother, who was great at the tyranny of good taste, mentioned her disdain for lawn ornaments, especially pink flamingos,” Waters says. Over the years, the mid-century lawn ornament has cemented itself in our city’s narrative, largely thanks to our own auteur John Waters and his 1972 film Pink Flamingos. And, of course, we have the pink flamingo.

[bazaarbaltimore]

This weekend is Honfest! We'll be open both days. 🥳 #honfest #hampden #shophampden #bazaarbaltimore (at Bazaar) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVelHBJ4xo/?igshid=251fhj9fyzw2

[spaghettikiss]

GOOD MORNING FROM HONFEST!!!! I’m pretty sure this is my 10th year vending at this pink and glittery bucket of BALTIMORE culture! I’m set up right in from of #trohv today and tomorrow with the all new crabby roger tees, tanks, and devuting the Bumper Sticker! . . . #comics #indiecomics #spaghettikiss #scifi #baltimorehon #kaiju #baltimore #crab #comicart #baltimorecrab #giantrobots #illustration #newcomic #honfest #convention https://www.instagram.com/p/Byc_6xthT67/?igshid=17nch8ehp04ge

[lostprofiles]

TONIGHT!

4pm

[crabsandbeer]

Baltimore by Kevin B. Moore

[abstractjanice]

I am super excited to be an artist for the first time at @honfest It looks like I will be fairly close to @dangerouslydelicioushampden I need to start brainstorming some #hon appropriate items! #honfest #bawlmer #bmore #baltimore #baltimoreevents #baltimorepride #baltimoreart #baltimoreartist #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #mixedmediaartist #paperart #paperartist #paperjewelry #honfest2020 #jewelrydesigner #jewellerydesign #jewelrydesigns #jewelrydesign #lightweightearrings #lightweightjewelry #beehives #hampden #hampdenbaltimore #marylandmade #madeinmaryland (at Hampden, Baltimore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9aBjuBHB-k/?igshid=186f7o42v13jg

[bobastudios]

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Here's Squirrely Roo checking out some of her favorite Baltimore landmarks and events like HONfest, Baltimore In AB ox, and we can't, of course, forget The Charmery! 🦀🏙

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[patgavin]

HONFEST 2017 (Part 2)

36th St., Hampden, Baltimore, Md

[ahylen]

I Love Baltimore. #wearebaltimore #lightcity #charmcity #thecitythatreads #honfest #diverse #beautiful #unique #welcoming #creative #mylifeisanartistdate #anevolutionarywomansjourney https://www.instagram.com/p/B0eBCSuBOrN/?igshid=1twh8ipc80bx8

[dna-creative-blog]

#baltimoresbesthon 2016 passes on her crown today. Loving @retrothrowback 's hand painted gown! #honfest #honfest2017 #baltimore #hampden #retro #fashion (at HONFEST)

[spaghettikiss]

I don’t know how she let me talk her into our little @honfest inspired photoshoot but @pinkkisspottery is looking ridiculously cute in her Beehive Skull Tank. Today is the last day to get your free crab skull bumper sticker with any purchase over at spaghettikiss.etsy.com - LINK IN BIO Oh and one more time...I miss you, Honfest and can’t wait to see you next year!!! . . . . #honfest #bawlmerhon #characterdesign #spaghettikiss #tshirtdesign #beehive #creaturedesign #johnwaters #baltimorehon #skullart #makecomics #madeinbaltimore #baltimoreartist #baltimoremaker #iambaltimoreart https://www.instagram.com/p/CBakk_iB_pU/?igshid=ro2nfdpc0dmp

[cheapcheapfaker]

i used to be bad at parallel parking, though in my defense, i think all 19 year olds driving 2001 ford explorers have trouble parallel parking on a one-way street w cars parked on both sides. my friend and i in college were going to hampden (i think it was honfest? or maybe we were just going somewhere to eat) and i was trying to park my beast of a car, people behind me honkin... the spot was definitely big enough, but it was looking grim when i kept backing up and pulling forward with the same movements. there’s two older guys sitting drinking on a covered porch in front of where i was trying to park, and one of them yells, after watching me struggle for a bit, hon, you need help parking? the answer to that was pretty obvious, so i said yeah. my friend hopped out and i hopped over into the passenger seat. the guy got in my car and parked bertha real easy into the spot, told me about how he used to be a truck driver for thirty years so this was a piece of cake. “you’ll get better,” he said. i did.

[lostprofiles]

NEXT WEEK 06/08 THE HOLY CIRCLE play at 4pm as a part of the WLOY stage at HONfest in Baltimore

[kemothesamurai]

Welcome to Bawlmer...Hon! We had a fun day at Honfest 2018! #Honfest (at HONFEST)