11 Responses to “So. Gambling.”

1. Charlie (Colorado) said:
   

   November 16th, 2009 at 2:12 pm

   I still haven’t heard a single lady Gaga cut I haven’t really liked. I[’ve got to buy an album.

   I think it’s the Stahl House, Case Study House #22, Pierre Koenig. It’s been dressed with some statues and stuff, though, I think.

2. Darrell said:
   

   November 16th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

   Just a luxury villa on PokerIsland (bwin online gambling syndicate).
   https://poker.bwin.com/public.aspx?aid=28669

3. Darrell said:
   

   November 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm

   Otherwise known as Ibiza (off Valencia, Spain), btw.

4. Little Miss Attila said:
   

   November 16th, 2009 at 6:29 pm

   I think that’s it, Charlie! I was pretty sure it was the one from that famous pic . . .

5. Foxfier said:
   

   November 16th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

   Heh, her songs fall into the musical version of other geek gals my age who enjoy Twilight.

6. Darrell said:
   

   November 17th, 2009 at 12:47 am

   So the real house and location doesn’t matter?
   No wonder we’re about to end civilization over fake global warming hysteria.

7. I R A Darth Aggie said:
   

   November 17th, 2009 at 9:36 am

   geek gals my age who enjoy Twilight.

   DEER LORD, NO!

   As I posted to Ace’s place when latest Twilight came up, I’ll be out back sharpening stakes, growing wolvesbane, and casting silver bullets.

8. Charlie (Colorado) said:
   

   November 17th, 2009 at 10:09 am

   Darrell, it’s glaringly not the house in the pokerland video: look at the pool, which in the Lady Gaga video has several corners instead of being a plain rectangle, or at the columns, which go up to a flat modern roof instead of Moorish-influence arches and domes.

9. Foxfier said:
   

   November 17th, 2009 at 10:13 am

   Darth-
   just keep in mind their secret weakness– aim for the face.

   My bet would be that it’s a sound-stage that’s been set up to look like the place Darrell linked– especially given the long-flat-blonde-with-big-glasses on that page.

10. Little Miss Attila said:
    

    November 17th, 2009 at 1:14 pm

    Darrell, you are right 99% of the time, but when it comes to the pool scenes I think you’re mistaken.

    There might have been multiple shoots for the vid; I think the poker scenes, and possibly the indoor party scene, could easily have been shot elsewhere. But the structure in most of the exterior shots is undeniably modern, somewhere right of the Neutra style. I looked again, and wasn’t able to spot that telltale cantilever to clinch Charlie’s ID. But it’s a midcentury-style house.

11. Darrell said:
    

    November 17th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    The background, topography, declination of the sun, vegetation, etc. isn’t right for the Stahl House. There are hundreds of luxury private estates on Ibiza, and architects take inspiration from, er…borrow, er….outright copy famous designs–especially for clients like new-money, Euro-mob swells tied in with Russian gangs involved in online gaming who don’t care if anyone will harrumph that it is only a copy. Not that any of the bwin crowd are, mind you, involved with the mob or illegal activities. I see now where Wiki says I’m right. And you know Wiki is never wrong.

    “The music video for “Poker Face”, directed by Ray Kay and aided by Anthony Mandler,[48] was filmed at the luxury villa on bwin PokerIsland.[49] bwin also provided the poker equipment and obtained product placements in return.[50] The video premiered on October 22, 2008. It is set by a pool, as well as in a mansion. It begins with Gaga emerging out of the pool wearing a shiny masquerade mask and a black full-body leotard, with two Great Danes beside her (Lava and her son Rumpus)[51].”
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_Face_(Lady_Gaga_song)

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