"Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you'll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity? Is this the root of your hatred of money?"

- Ayn Rand. 'Atlas Shrugged'.

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By 'Portugal. The Man'.

Разобрался в кармане сумки "для всяких бумажек".

Ул. Кашенкин луг.


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...на выходных сканировал пленки, отснятые в Геленджике и Гуамском ущелье.



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Москва, Барашевский переулок, сентябрь 2011 г.

"Работай, покупай и умри".

Первый раз я на Черном море в ноябре. Пронизывающий норд-ост, два перевала, "водка-бумы" на пустынном ночном пляже, канатная дорога, Norse Projects, Red Wing, "In Rainbows" Radiohead.

"Because we separate
Like ripples on a blank shore"
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Гуамское ущелье, река Курджипс. Апшеронский район Краснодарского края, 4е ноября 2011.



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Выходные прошли под Massive Attack.

Your mind can never change unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange the thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy, the joy belongs to you

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values".
- Ayn Rand