Midnight Storming of the Castles

Midnight in the Valley of good and evil

What happens when you gather with a person who shares a passion and history for tech companies like the one you secretly pretend you don’t have. I had dinner and glass of wine, by the end of dinner i had agreed to drive through silicon valley looking for the companies and corporations that shaped technology in my lifetime, and i decided that it needed to be documented with a series of sporadic photos and poses. I have no commentary other than to say, while silly and crazy, it was a wild night, we got to see some of these places in complete darkness and abandonment.

The toured sites

Google proved to be the equivalent of a college campus with better spaces, Yahoo you could tell was just surviving was is to be a rough coming year, Oracle is like the name, a surreal and almost not of this world kind of buildings with reflecting pools, Apple is simply iconic and with a hint of humor; Netflix, clearly as the new kid on the block and facebook, as the ultimate underdog with a basic standard building entrance.

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