Silicon Valley (27 pics + text)

Courtyard of the main building Apple Computer, Inc. Street Infinity Loop, Cupertino, California. At this point, the company's employees, divided into teams, competing to see who will fill the water glass flask. In another bullet from a catapult rubber balls with water and catch them, running across the lawn. In the third - to jump on the big plastic balls. In general, engaged in what is called now the buzzword "team building". And just - resting after a week of work.





Twenty years I have next to your Mac and as old dream to come here, look at this famous place, on the street called endless loop.

And here I am, and even in such an interesting point.





The bartender opens a bottle of dry red. Here is poured and a beer.

Catapult just like real.



Ball with water to catch so that it did not crash. Who will pick up, and he won.



The paradox - at Apple, one of the most secretive companies with the most severe, paranoid regime of secrecy, you can go to any and completely undocumented.

The main thing is to have a friend is an employee. He gets your name on the screen Mac installed at the entrance of the printer will get out sticker, you prishlepnete it on a T-shirt and ready - go.



Most sincere joy at the victory - they are the first flask filled with water! Hooray!



And this is the main dining room at Apple. On that day, there were arranged tables with every meal and arranged furshet.Apple





In the corner there are plastic barrels with ice and soda banks. All, of course, free of charge.



On Friday, come here with their families and children.



Inside can not shoot, but I could not resist to take a picture secretly not a smartphone fragment large stand set in one of the rooms. At fifteen large epplovskih monitors application icons are shown for the iPhone. As soon as one of the programs someone downloads in iTunes, the icon flashes for a moment, increasing in size. From this screen the entire surface as a living - tens, hundreds of icons constantly alive and the whole mass of swaying, as if alive. Very cool done.



We exit the building Apple. Leo and Jan call his friend at Google. It is very close, we sit in the car and drive there.



Google takes a number of buildings that used to belong to Silicon Graphics.



Here is the courtyard of the main building Google. Unlike Apple's Friday here deserted, sitting at the tables just a few people.



Employees are leaving their homes.

Some large companies in Silicon Valley (including Apple) and transported bring his people out of San Francisco on comfortable buses equipped with internet access.

Thus a person starts his working day at the office, and in the bus.



Any Google employee can take one of these hybrid cars and go to their personal affairs.

Battery charging and gasoline enough for forty miles. The six need to return the car to the place.

Canopy of parking for cars equipped with solar panels. These are the same and on the roofs of all buildings Google.



Russian-language Google employees cynically argue that this person sick.



Next to the reception desk to the decomposition of a piano notes.



Right in the central courtyard of a small vegetable garden is divided. Here they grow herbs for one of the local eateries.



Dinosaur skeleton for some reason, eating small pink flamingos.



Here, too, can not shoot inside, but I took a few shots.

Left the entrance to the dining room.



On this screen, you can see where it is currently using Google.



Here on the big screens to watch any fragment of the Earth's surface

As much as possible for Google Maps permission.



All yard seated persimmons, which ripen in late autumn here.