A tour of magician Teller's house
USA Today ran a nice profile of Teller from Penn and Teller last week. It includes photos by Steve Marcus of his beautiful geeky house.
Link"Like much of my life, this house is a reflection of everything I wanted back when I was 12," says Teller, 59. "I love this house because it's honest. If you see a floor that looks like concrete, that's because it is concrete. But, ah, on the other hand, nothing is what it seems."
Did we mention the house has multiple mirrors, hidden doors, screaming tables and one talking bear sculpture who plays card tricks on visitors? Like the man said, it's a 12-year-old's dream. Zoom back. A decade ago, Teller spotted a 10-acre rocky outcropping with great views of the Vegas Strip and the mountains and decided this was his Xanadu. What rose on the spot is a squared-off fortress with an exterior of corrugated steel that's interrupted by expanses of windows.
Inside, the structure is more maze than living space, 4,500 square feet of books, memorabilia, DVDs, as well as a coffin and the odd preserved human skull — macabre touches shared by Teller's show-mate, Penn, who lives a mile away in his own eclectic mansion.
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Wonderful insight, great link. Thanks.
I like how interesting people tend ot have interesting houses
not that interesting...a bit too kitsch too be honest.
but, then again, you would expect that from mainstream tv magicians.
swimming pool illusions...that's what they need
http://scophy.com/2007/11/19/architecture-mondays-swimming-pool-illusion-without-water/
Add a diving board for that and you are looking for trouble. Cool!
This is cool. I've always loved Penn Jillette's penitentiary-style house.
Somewhat Teller-related - the DesertBus marathon. :) http://desertbus.org/
Desert Bus is a game created for a Penn and Teller project in the 90s. Some people say it's the most boring game ever made.
These Canadian guys are going to try to prove it.
And Teller called them and said hi! :) And donated $500.
Add the breakfast machine from Pee-wee's Big Adventure and you'd have a house I'd call home.
Hey Ryan,
Ha! A diving board...or a slide (you would just slide across the glass on top so painful without being overly dangerous :)
I wish he would move in next door to me!
To complete the set, you can find the designers photos of Penn Jillette's (the larger, louder half of the dynamic magic duo) house "The Slammer" here...
http://otlstudio.com/gallery.php?image=19960117t
I heard him describe the terrain around his house as "Hell, on the moon" which was very much to his liking.
Check out the Guard tower!
Who wants to bet that Penn and teller have a secret underground tunnel connecting their two houses?
Teller (& Penn) are two of the few celebrities I'd actually like to hang out with. And I'm not a huge fan of magic or illusion.
Hang out with them? You must be joking. They make some of the most ignorant, obnoxious television this side of the Fox News Channel.
Yeah, civil libertarians are the same as rights-trampling corporate whores.
Greebo, comments like that are greatly improved by having examples and explanations.
I used to listen to Penn's podcast (before he stopped doing it). They (Penn, Teller et al) seem like fantastic people. Obnoxious, honest, and very very smart. The world could use a lot more atheist libertarians like them.
Examples and explanations? Try watching the recent episode of their "Bullshit" show entitled "Nukes, Hybrids and Lesbians". It's typical trash TV: it panders to a whole bunch of prejudices, while trampling all over any rational debate. If these are supposedly intelligent people making this show, I can only suppose they chose the particular set of non sequiturs they use on this show for a particular reason, and a very nasty one at that.
The world could use a lot more atheist libertarians who are *not* like them at all.