Why yes, I do have a diorama of the JFK assassination in my house...
August 7, 2008 12:02 PM Subscribe
So you're Roland Emmerich, Hollywood super producer/director, and you buy an apartment in Knightsbridge, London. Friends tell you the neighborhood is a bit "staid." Not caring, you tell your interior decorator to make it so "that when the neighbors peek in, they might want to call the police or something."
A taxidermy zebra faces the living room, which reflects his predilection for art with a political edge.
Supports a half-white, half-black candidate?
The chalkboard room is awesome. John Nash would approve.
...a statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired by Rodin's "The Thinker."
lol
posted by DU at 12:10 PM on August 7, 2008
Supports a half-white, half-black candidate?
The chalkboard room is awesome. John Nash would approve.
...a statue of Arnold Schwarzenegger inspired by Rodin's "The Thinker."
lol
posted by DU at 12:10 PM on August 7, 2008
Taste or no taste, I think I'd rather watch a movie directed by the designer.
posted by starman at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2008 [7 favorites]
posted by starman at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2008 [7 favorites]
A lot of that is pretty yuck, but I have to agree, the chalkboard room is an awesome idea.
posted by juv3nal at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by juv3nal at 12:11 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
I don't know what to say. It's both awful and great, embarassing and really fun, just like his movies.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:13 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:13 PM on August 7, 2008
I like the photo(?) of Princess Di.
Actually, if you'll pardon the askmefi derail, anyone know where this image comes from?
posted by xod at 12:14 PM on August 7, 2008
Actually, if you'll pardon the askmefi derail, anyone know where this image comes from?
posted by xod at 12:14 PM on August 7, 2008
Further (and perhaps more to the point) I thought that the raison d'être for that kind of design was that you had interesting stories to tell about the objects, tales that related to your life and experiences: "Oh, I found this in a marketplace in Ghana. There was an amazing woman there..." rather than "Oh, thanks. My designer has an eye for things."
Some of the ideas: blackboard paint on the walls - are actually really practical. But you know that Emmerich didn't draw the I'm-not-really-a-conspiracy-theorist-ha-ha little scribbles on the walls, which just strikes me as fraudulent and sad.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:14 PM on August 7, 2008 [7 favorites]
Some of the ideas: blackboard paint on the walls - are actually really practical. But you know that Emmerich didn't draw the I'm-not-really-a-conspiracy-theorist-ha-ha little scribbles on the walls, which just strikes me as fraudulent and sad.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 12:14 PM on August 7, 2008 [7 favorites]
Is that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his guest bedroom's bedside photo?
posted by trueluk at 12:16 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by trueluk at 12:16 PM on August 7, 2008
The sense of humor that permeates the tacky, freaky decor is wonderful. Chess Rambo and Arnold as The Thinker. I'd love to get a tour of the place, or better yet, a few hours to explore. That said, I can't imagine living in a place like that. How do you feel at home inside an elaborate joke?
posted by Mr Bunnsy at 12:16 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Mr Bunnsy at 12:16 PM on August 7, 2008
I am not a fan of his movies, but I do like his house.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:19 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:19 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
The library coffee table is made of a missile from Iraq and holds an Arabs-and-Americans chess set commissioned by Mr. Teall. (On the Arab side, pieces include an oil rig, Saddam Hussein and a suicide bomber, and on the American side, an exploding World Trade Center, President Bush and Rambo.)
posted by mkb at 12:20 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by mkb at 12:20 PM on August 7, 2008
Some of this stuff's pretty rad, although I agree that it's lame when a house like this is entirely sourced by a designer, rather than being the result of years of eccentricity accumulating in the form of awesome crap.
How do you feel at home inside an elaborate joke?
And that's what makes you feel at home in it, when it's all your joke.
posted by padraigin at 12:21 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
How do you feel at home inside an elaborate joke?
And that's what makes you feel at home in it, when it's all your joke.
posted by padraigin at 12:21 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
Is that an alarm cock on the other side of the bed from Ahmadinejad in the guest bedroom?
posted by Guy Smiley at 12:22 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Guy Smiley at 12:22 PM on August 7, 2008
Amusing for 30 secs, but would you really want to live here?
It's like being told the same tasteless knock knock joke on the hour, every fucking day, for the rest of your life.
posted by lalochezia at 12:22 PM on August 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
It's like being told the same tasteless knock knock joke on the hour, every fucking day, for the rest of your life.
posted by lalochezia at 12:22 PM on August 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
I dig this. I like the Pope reading his own obituary. If only he were on the can.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 12:24 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 12:24 PM on August 7, 2008
That's pretty vile. He should be deported or something. Glad I left Knightsbridge more than a decade ago; the place is filling up with riff-raff.
posted by nowonmai at 12:24 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by nowonmai at 12:24 PM on August 7, 2008
It's hard to buy a sense of humor in an age of self inflation. But he does seem to have a thing for stuffed zebras.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:27 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:27 PM on August 7, 2008
Is that an alarm cock on the other side of the bed from Ahmadinejad in the guest bedroom?
"Sorry I'm late, I was sleeping over at Emmerich's and kept hitting the ooze button... "
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:28 PM on August 7, 2008 [6 favorites]
"Sorry I'm late, I was sleeping over at Emmerich's and kept hitting the ooze button... "
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 12:28 PM on August 7, 2008 [6 favorites]
I'd rather see David Lynch's house, or the abode of John Waters.....
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:29 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:29 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
You know, for a second I thought the pope was sitting in a toilet doing his thing. After seeing the rest of the pictures, I don't think it would have mattered much.
Great thing for the guests to find when they wake up in the middle of the night and go in search of a snack, toilet or not toilet pope!
posted by Iosephus at 12:31 PM on August 7, 2008
Great thing for the guests to find when they wake up in the middle of the night and go in search of a snack, toilet or not toilet pope!
posted by Iosephus at 12:31 PM on August 7, 2008
Toilet Pope is daring you to masturbate.
posted by CynicalKnight at 12:34 PM on August 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
posted by CynicalKnight at 12:34 PM on August 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
I really dig the office with the chalk writing, sketches, equations, and whatever all over the walls and ceiling.
That has the kind of borderline crazy/ genius thing I could see wanting to convey to guests.
posted by quin at 12:37 PM on August 7, 2008
That has the kind of borderline crazy/ genius thing I could see wanting to convey to guests.
posted by quin at 12:37 PM on August 7, 2008
I'd rather see David Lynch's house, or the abode of John Waters.....
I'm thinking that Lynch's house would be surprisingly normal at a glance, with weird details at closer inspection. Waters' would likely be a little more consciously absurd, but even so, I suspect it would be decidedly livable ... unlike Roland E's little hell-hole of cool-as-fuck indulgence. But what do you expect from a guy who's crowning moment is still Independence Day which, let's face it, only an American could love.
posted by philip-random at 12:40 PM on August 7, 2008
I'm thinking that Lynch's house would be surprisingly normal at a glance, with weird details at closer inspection. Waters' would likely be a little more consciously absurd, but even so, I suspect it would be decidedly livable ... unlike Roland E's little hell-hole of cool-as-fuck indulgence. But what do you expect from a guy who's crowning moment is still Independence Day which, let's face it, only an American could love.
posted by philip-random at 12:40 PM on August 7, 2008
*yawn*
Now you've done it!
You've set off the dog!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:54 PM on August 7, 2008
Now you've done it!
You've set off the dog!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 12:54 PM on August 7, 2008
Not sure if this has been pointed out or not, but this is quite possibly eponysterical.
posted by Mister_A at 1:24 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Mister_A at 1:24 PM on August 7, 2008
I'm thinking that Lynch's house would be surprisingly normal at a glance, with weird details at closer inspection.
I was thinking the same thing, except I think it would be surprisingly normal (possibly in a fifties suburban lace curtains sort of way), and then, on closer inspection, it would continue to be completely normal. And this would be unbelievably creepy because you could never stop feeling like the other shoe was about to drop.
posted by Hypocrite_Lecteur at 1:25 PM on August 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
I was thinking the same thing, except I think it would be surprisingly normal (possibly in a fifties suburban lace curtains sort of way), and then, on closer inspection, it would continue to be completely normal. And this would be unbelievably creepy because you could never stop feeling like the other shoe was about to drop.
posted by Hypocrite_Lecteur at 1:25 PM on August 7, 2008 [4 favorites]
I'd rather see David Lynch's house, or the abode of John Waters.....
No photos, but here's an article about the Waters estate.
posted by contraption at 1:30 PM on August 7, 2008
No photos, but here's an article about the Waters estate.
posted by contraption at 1:30 PM on August 7, 2008
If he wanted to irritate his neighbors, why not skewer a lot more British institutions and significant figures?
If nothing else, a diorama of the Profumo affair would be far more entertaining than the JFK diorama, depending what point of the scandal you chose to depict.
posted by winna at 1:42 PM on August 7, 2008
If nothing else, a diorama of the Profumo affair would be far more entertaining than the JFK diorama, depending what point of the scandal you chose to depict.
posted by winna at 1:42 PM on August 7, 2008
Clearly just a vehicle for self-promotion- and The Times falls for it.
I'll bet he doesn't even live there.
posted by Zambrano at 1:46 PM on August 7, 2008
I'll bet he doesn't even live there.
posted by Zambrano at 1:46 PM on August 7, 2008
If I ever have a decorator completely kit out a house, please smack me. Adding your own knickknacks is part of what makes it fun.
posted by pupdog at 1:49 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by pupdog at 1:49 PM on August 7, 2008
That guest is room is full of interesting things. In addition to the Ahmadinejad portrait and the dong clock, the bedspread appears to be made from olive drab mens' briefs. Of course The Times only calls attention to the headboard which, once again, is made from an airplane wing(!)
posted by contraption at 1:49 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by contraption at 1:49 PM on August 7, 2008
Anyone remember the nice old house in Beetlejuice and what the new owners did to it? Yeah. This place makes Graceland look tasteful. I'm thinking that Emmerich's interior decorator raided the dumpster at House on the Rock.
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:59 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Halloween Jack at 1:59 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
That's a photo of either Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Jonathan Frakes.
posted by Faint of Butt at 2:00 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Faint of Butt at 2:00 PM on August 7, 2008
If I ever have a decorator completely kit out a house, please smack me. Adding your own knickknacks is part of what makes it fun.
Once you are rich enough to not worry about money, you are free to buy a personality lock stock and barrel. Buying TASTE, however, seems to be a problem regardless of how much cash you have.
posted by spicynuts at 2:00 PM on August 7, 2008
Once you are rich enough to not worry about money, you are free to buy a personality lock stock and barrel. Buying TASTE, however, seems to be a problem regardless of how much cash you have.
posted by spicynuts at 2:00 PM on August 7, 2008
The airplane wings and such remind me of my old neighbor Telstar's house in San Francisco except, well, he did it himself.
posted by vacapinta at 2:22 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by vacapinta at 2:22 PM on August 7, 2008
Also Emmerich's "Library" doesn't actually have any books. That's already the complete opposite of my dream library.
posted by vacapinta at 2:27 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by vacapinta at 2:27 PM on August 7, 2008
It's like being told the same tasteless knock knock joke on the hour, every fucking day, for the rest of your life.
And it's too much of the same joke. Every room has to make some "witty" comment about Western hegemony? His entire house smacks of undergraduate posturing.
I do like the mural of the soldier in his bedroom, though.
posted by droplet at 2:36 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
And it's too much of the same joke. Every room has to make some "witty" comment about Western hegemony? His entire house smacks of undergraduate posturing.
I do like the mural of the soldier in his bedroom, though.
posted by droplet at 2:36 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
If you want a room covered in writing surfaces, might I recommend white melamine, which makes decent whiteboards, and is available from Home Depot in thin 4 x 8 foot sheets for a song. It's not so dust-producing or gloomy as blackboard paint (although it doesn't have that Einstein feel either, I admit).
posted by jhc at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by jhc at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008
The airplane wings and such remind me of my old neighbor Telstar's house in San Francisco
fuck me
posted by yort at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008
fuck me
posted by yort at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008
I'd rather like in a house than a museum curated by some Abbot Kinney-grade* assclown.
(Though I think the blackboard painted office would be cool as hell.)
*Abbot Kinney is a street in Venice, CA that's become the new home of the wealthy wanker class. Though now that I've written about it here, some alarm has probably gone off and started an exodus to some other part of the city. Plenty of room for your art collections out in Lancaster, you swine!
posted by RakDaddy at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
(Though I think the blackboard painted office would be cool as hell.)
*Abbot Kinney is a street in Venice, CA that's become the new home of the wealthy wanker class. Though now that I've written about it here, some alarm has probably gone off and started an exodus to some other part of the city. Plenty of room for your art collections out in Lancaster, you swine!
posted by RakDaddy at 2:40 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
I'd rather see David Lynch's house . . .
On the Inland Empire DVD there's a short film of David showing how to cook quinoa, in what appears to be his home. I remember it being fairly normal, although obviously not an inexpensive house.
posted by D.C. at 2:41 PM on August 7, 2008
On the Inland Empire DVD there's a short film of David showing how to cook quinoa, in what appears to be his home. I remember it being fairly normal, although obviously not an inexpensive house.
posted by D.C. at 2:41 PM on August 7, 2008
"What do you think?" he demanded impetuously.
"About what?"
He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.
"About that. As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain. I
ascertained. They're real."
"The books?"
He nodded.
"Absolutely real--have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice
durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutely real. Pages
and--Here! Lemme show you."
posted by Squid Voltaire at 2:43 PM on August 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
"About what?"
He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.
"About that. As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain. I
ascertained. They're real."
"The books?"
He nodded.
"Absolutely real--have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice
durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutely real. Pages
and--Here! Lemme show you."
posted by Squid Voltaire at 2:43 PM on August 7, 2008 [5 favorites]
Blah... Another Georgian London facade with something completely radical and modern and interior designed to shit behind it. Can you smell the amazing juxtaposition of old and new? Is the house surprising you with its playfulness yet? Is it statement about, like, wow or, like some shit, or something?
He'd have probably freaked the neighbours out a whole lot more if he'd left painted the house in tasteful period colours and filled it with antiques.
posted by rhymer at 2:44 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
He'd have probably freaked the neighbours out a whole lot more if he'd left painted the house in tasteful period colours and filled it with antiques.
posted by rhymer at 2:44 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
Actually, if you'll pardon the askmefi derail, anyone know where this image comes from?
The one of Diana? It looks like a relatively well known portrait of her (I don't know the photographer) with the hand photoshopped on. (I can tell it's a photoshop from the pixels and having seen quite a few shops in my time).
or the abode of John Waters....
In the special features on the DVD for Cecil B. Demented you see large chunks of Waters' house. About what you'd expect, really: relatively normal, with the odd creepy thing laying around (including, and this horrifies me not least because Waters is gay and the victims were all young gay men, paintings by John Wayne Gacy). The thing is, with Waters it's genuine; the detritus of a fairly weird brain living a fairly weird life.
This guy's house is just an act. It's all style, no substance. And honestly, I think it would be incredibly tiring to live in a house that is so AGGRESSIVELY WEIRD AND I AM A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE. Doubly so when the weirdness is all from a designer, and none of it is actually yours.
I do like the chalkboard office, though.
Anyone remember the nice old house in Beetlejuice and what the new owners did to it? Yeah.
Precisely! What a great way to put it. In fact, I nominate that as the name for this interior design trend: The Beetlejuice Effect coming soon to a theatre near you.
I mean... I know that the 5th avenue Puzzle Apartment posted here a couple months ago is essentially the same kind of idea. But it had taste. This is brash. Blech.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:45 PM on August 7, 2008
The one of Diana? It looks like a relatively well known portrait of her (I don't know the photographer) with the hand photoshopped on. (I can tell it's a photoshop from the pixels and having seen quite a few shops in my time).
or the abode of John Waters....
In the special features on the DVD for Cecil B. Demented you see large chunks of Waters' house. About what you'd expect, really: relatively normal, with the odd creepy thing laying around (including, and this horrifies me not least because Waters is gay and the victims were all young gay men, paintings by John Wayne Gacy). The thing is, with Waters it's genuine; the detritus of a fairly weird brain living a fairly weird life.
This guy's house is just an act. It's all style, no substance. And honestly, I think it would be incredibly tiring to live in a house that is so AGGRESSIVELY WEIRD AND I AM A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE. Doubly so when the weirdness is all from a designer, and none of it is actually yours.
I do like the chalkboard office, though.
Anyone remember the nice old house in Beetlejuice and what the new owners did to it? Yeah.
Precisely! What a great way to put it. In fact, I nominate that as the name for this interior design trend: The Beetlejuice Effect coming soon to a theatre near you.
I mean... I know that the 5th avenue Puzzle Apartment posted here a couple months ago is essentially the same kind of idea. But it had taste. This is brash. Blech.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:45 PM on August 7, 2008
The airplane wings and such remind me of my old neighbor Telstar's house in San Francisco
What yort said. That is an amazing house.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:50 PM on August 7, 2008
What yort said. That is an amazing house.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 2:50 PM on August 7, 2008
Zelda looks lonely.
posted by ocha-no-mizu at 2:55 PM on August 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by ocha-no-mizu at 2:55 PM on August 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
one more voice here saying it's underwhelming when some rich cunt pays a designer to create something quirky for them, as opposed to real people who actually have to spend time searching the shit out, accumulating it over a years & years.
the furniture made out of the WW2 warplane, would be awesome, for example, if you could actually tack a story onto it: "yeh, this messerchmitt crashed near my grandparents' farm & the RAF stored parts of it in their barn for analysis. The war ended before they could get to it, and it was soon forgotten..."
...as opposed to "oh, my designer bought it somewhere, not sure how much it cost. what sort of plane was it, did you say? fucked if I know! do you wanna see my replica of Hitler's bathtub? It's made out of sardines, embedded in perspex!"
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:05 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
the furniture made out of the WW2 warplane, would be awesome, for example, if you could actually tack a story onto it: "yeh, this messerchmitt crashed near my grandparents' farm & the RAF stored parts of it in their barn for analysis. The war ended before they could get to it, and it was soon forgotten..."
...as opposed to "oh, my designer bought it somewhere, not sure how much it cost. what sort of plane was it, did you say? fucked if I know! do you wanna see my replica of Hitler's bathtub? It's made out of sardines, embedded in perspex!"
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:05 PM on August 7, 2008 [2 favorites]
If you have to make this much effort to be interesting then you aren't.
From my limited exposure to these kinds of look inside my house/office features, I've noticed that interesting people tend to live in somewhat dull but very functional spaces presumably because they don't want to be distracted from the interesting things they're doing.
posted by xchmp at 3:24 PM on August 7, 2008
From my limited exposure to these kinds of look inside my house/office features, I've noticed that interesting people tend to live in somewhat dull but very functional spaces presumably because they don't want to be distracted from the interesting things they're doing.
posted by xchmp at 3:24 PM on August 7, 2008
Money might not be able to buy taste, but wow, it sure can buy you a lot of really cool shit.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:25 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:25 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
This man is single.
posted by asok at 3:47 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by asok at 3:47 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
Isn't that the house where Alex and his droogs beat the crap out of the old man while raping his wife?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:55 PM on August 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 3:55 PM on August 7, 2008 [3 favorites]
Great work by Teall and Flux; funny as hell. I know some of you think it a shame that Emmerich "bought" his taste, but that's what professionals are for. We don't expect people to be their own lawyers. Anyway, there are more samples at the Flux website.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 4:09 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Optimus Chyme at 4:09 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
"he decided it would be much funnier [than x] to depict the pope reading his own obituaries."
Exercise: for what values of x is this statement true?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:40 PM on August 7, 2008
Exercise: for what values of x is this statement true?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 4:40 PM on August 7, 2008
His house makes me want to punch him right in the face.
Then again, each passing year presents me with more things that incline me towards punching certain people in the face, so I suppose that's not such a telling reaction.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:50 PM on August 7, 2008
Then again, each passing year presents me with more things that incline me towards punching certain people in the face, so I suppose that's not such a telling reaction.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:50 PM on August 7, 2008
I dig this. I like the Pope reading his own obituary. If only he were on the can.
I thought he was on the can. I was all set to make a Pope-on-the-John Paul joke, but then I realized it was just a chair.
Well, mission accomplished anyway, I guess.
posted by the littlest brussels sprout at 4:56 PM on August 7, 2008
I thought he was on the can. I was all set to make a Pope-on-the-John Paul joke, but then I realized it was just a chair.
Well, mission accomplished anyway, I guess.
posted by the littlest brussels sprout at 4:56 PM on August 7, 2008
one more voice here saying it's underwhelming when some rich cunt pays a designer to create something quirky for them, as opposed to real people who actually have to spend time searching the shit out, accumulating it over a years & years.
But wouldn't it be awesome to be that designer? "Here's an assload of cash. Have fun." Chance of a lifetime to do some wild things without having to worry about upsetting the client.
posted by Capybara at 4:56 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
But wouldn't it be awesome to be that designer? "Here's an assload of cash. Have fun." Chance of a lifetime to do some wild things without having to worry about upsetting the client.
posted by Capybara at 4:56 PM on August 7, 2008 [1 favorite]
I think he's auditioning to direct the next Addams Family sequel/revival. Because I can see a Gen Y Gomez Addams doing the same thing (but maybe with animals other than zebras). Ooky.
posted by wendell at 4:58 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by wendell at 4:58 PM on August 7, 2008
I hope to be rich enough some day to have people complain about my terrible taste.
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:05 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Astro Zombie at 5:05 PM on August 7, 2008
I'd rather see David Lynch's house, or the abode of John Waters.....
Waters' house is awesome. He has a room he commissioned from an artist which looks like the room of a bombmaker. He has a letter from the artist stating its purpose in case the place is ever raided.
He also has an electric chair in his living room.
And... best of all, he takes a polaroid of *every* *single* person who knocks on his door, gets them to sign their name, and puts them in an album. Some are of famous people of course but many are the mailman and the UPS guy and the hydro guy, etc.
posted by dobbs at 5:15 PM on August 7, 2008
Waters' house is awesome. He has a room he commissioned from an artist which looks like the room of a bombmaker. He has a letter from the artist stating its purpose in case the place is ever raided.
He also has an electric chair in his living room.
And... best of all, he takes a polaroid of *every* *single* person who knocks on his door, gets them to sign their name, and puts them in an album. Some are of famous people of course but many are the mailman and the UPS guy and the hydro guy, etc.
posted by dobbs at 5:15 PM on August 7, 2008
I worked for him on ID4. He's a pretty nice guy. He also by coincidence lives a few blocks from me in LA (where the neighborhood takes a sudden turn for the better). I wonder what his LA place looks like inside.
posted by jfrancis at 5:31 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by jfrancis at 5:31 PM on August 7, 2008
I'd rather see David Lynch's house, or the abode of John Waters...
David Lynch's house is featured in Lost Highway - and even in the film, I expect that's how he lives, minimally furnished with the occasional tear in the space-time continuum. Or psychogenic fugue. Or whatever actually happened in that film.
posted by crossoverman at 7:26 PM on August 7, 2008
David Lynch's house is featured in Lost Highway - and even in the film, I expect that's how he lives, minimally furnished with the occasional tear in the space-time continuum. Or psychogenic fugue. Or whatever actually happened in that film.
posted by crossoverman at 7:26 PM on August 7, 2008
I like the study with chalk-board paint (or, back in my days, what we used to call "blackboard").
Anyway, the rest is pretentious claptrap.
Expensive, elitist, condescending and expensive claptrap.
What a twat.
posted by Mephisto at 7:37 PM on August 7, 2008
Anyway, the rest is pretentious claptrap.
Expensive, elitist, condescending and expensive claptrap.
What a twat.
posted by Mephisto at 7:37 PM on August 7, 2008
But wouldn't it be awesome to be that designer? "Here's an assload of cash. Have fun."
Oh hell ass yes.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:39 PM on August 7, 2008
Oh hell ass yes.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 7:39 PM on August 7, 2008
especially when you don't have to actually live in the results, day to day.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:07 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:07 PM on August 7, 2008
What a remarkably artificial residence. It's certainly not a "home," but just a place to stay.
posted by five fresh fish at 9:23 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by five fresh fish at 9:23 PM on August 7, 2008
the Diana photo is by Alison Jackson- http://www.alisonjackson.com/photos.html
posted by gyusan at 9:33 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by gyusan at 9:33 PM on August 7, 2008
Ahhh.. a fake.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 9:38 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 9:38 PM on August 7, 2008
I always wonder about Mao dolls and artefacts - I mean, would you buy an Idi Amin doll? Or a Stalin doll?
posted by awfurby at 10:32 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by awfurby at 10:32 PM on August 7, 2008
i re-logged in after 6 months to just to say: "that is frickin' cool"
posted by [son] QUAALUDE at 11:01 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by [son] QUAALUDE at 11:01 PM on August 7, 2008
I was impressed until I looked at the Telstar house photos. That's what the real thing looks like.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 11:01 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 11:01 PM on August 7, 2008
Typical yuppy rebellion - synthetic and uniform to the core.
posted by bokononito at 11:46 PM on August 7, 2008
posted by bokononito at 11:46 PM on August 7, 2008
Michael Bay, the ball's in your court.
posted by flashboy at 1:15 AM on August 8, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by flashboy at 1:15 AM on August 8, 2008 [2 favorites]
I always wonder about Mao dolls and artefacts - I mean, would you buy an Idi Amin doll? Or a Stalin doll?
If you can tell me where I can get a Stalin doll then I will have a Stalin doll by the end of the week.
posted by vbfg at 1:40 AM on August 8, 2008
If you can tell me where I can get a Stalin doll then I will have a Stalin doll by the end of the week.
posted by vbfg at 1:40 AM on August 8, 2008
I know some of you think it a shame that Emmerich "bought" his taste, but that's what professionals are for. We don't expect people to be their own lawyers.
Nor do we expect them to represent themselves in their own living room.
Wait... What?
posted by Sparx at 3:23 AM on August 8, 2008
Nor do we expect them to represent themselves in their own living room.
Wait... What?
posted by Sparx at 3:23 AM on August 8, 2008
If you can tell me where I can get a Stalin doll then I will have a Stalin doll by the end of the week.
This fascinates me, if it's genuine. Seriously, why would you want such a thing? I'm truly interested.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:18 AM on August 8, 2008
This fascinates me, if it's genuine. Seriously, why would you want such a thing? I'm truly interested.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:18 AM on August 8, 2008
Emmerich already has you beat. He has a Lenin and Stalin pillow.
Carefully fluffs his Lenin and Trotsky pillow, with Marx Comforter and Engels doll, and if you act now, a Kollontai commemorative drinking glass
posted by Gnatcho at 6:44 AM on August 8, 2008
Carefully fluffs his Lenin and Trotsky pillow, with Marx Comforter and Engels doll, and if you act now, a Kollontai commemorative drinking glass
posted by Gnatcho at 6:44 AM on August 8, 2008
Seriously, why would you want such a thing? I'm truly interested.
Cos my book shelves are dotted full of objects that represent things that have been interesting / important to me over the years. I have a towers of hanoi puzzle cos I was a comp sci student. I have a Ferguson tractor cos I'm an Archers fan. I have been fascinated by Soviet history for years, and I want a Stalin doll for my shelf. I don't venerate Stalin, but if there's a doll available and I can find it I'm having one.
The nieces and nephews are growing up so there are probably gaps in my mother's knitting schedule. I may put an order in.
posted by vbfg at 6:46 AM on August 8, 2008
Cos my book shelves are dotted full of objects that represent things that have been interesting / important to me over the years. I have a towers of hanoi puzzle cos I was a comp sci student. I have a Ferguson tractor cos I'm an Archers fan. I have been fascinated by Soviet history for years, and I want a Stalin doll for my shelf. I don't venerate Stalin, but if there's a doll available and I can find it I'm having one.
The nieces and nephews are growing up so there are probably gaps in my mother's knitting schedule. I may put an order in.
posted by vbfg at 6:46 AM on August 8, 2008
the Diana photo is by Alison Jackson- http://www.alisonjackson.com/photos.html
posted by gyusan
Thanks, gyusan!
posted by xod at 7:45 AM on August 8, 2008
posted by gyusan
Thanks, gyusan!
posted by xod at 7:45 AM on August 8, 2008
The photo spread mentiones A chair on the terrace was made of Shell oil cans by children in Ghana. Wow, child labour chic!
posted by Nelson at 10:26 AM on August 8, 2008
posted by Nelson at 10:26 AM on August 8, 2008
If you can tell me where I can get a Stalin doll then I will have a Stalin doll by the end of the week.
I have a set of Matryoshka dolls that goes Gorbachev/Khrushchev/Mao/Stalin/Lenin.
And I agree that the blackboard room is cool. I also like the Ministry of Internal Affairs replica door. Perhaps I can get my woodworking husband to make me one.
posted by Lucinda at 11:43 AM on August 8, 2008
I have a set of Matryoshka dolls that goes Gorbachev/Khrushchev/Mao/Stalin/Lenin.
And I agree that the blackboard room is cool. I also like the Ministry of Internal Affairs replica door. Perhaps I can get my woodworking husband to make me one.
posted by Lucinda at 11:43 AM on August 8, 2008
Imagine an entire house that looks like the bathrooms at the Rimsky-Korsakov coffee house in Portland.
posted by mecran01 at 11:49 AM on August 8, 2008
posted by mecran01 at 11:49 AM on August 8, 2008
Excuse me, PostIronyIsNotaMyth, but after this post you'll have a trickier time demonstrating that post irony is not a myth.
posted by PM at 5:37 PM on August 8, 2008
posted by PM at 5:37 PM on August 8, 2008
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