My three vines resemble nature through a taker lens, a leaver lens, and an intermediate lens. The intermediate lens is who I am. I want to experience more nature and live in remote areas of the world, but I need technology. Similar to the book Into the Wild, My first two vines resemble that story. In my first vine, I say “Is there more to life than this?” as I take record of the millions of people living and traveling in the same direction as myself. I say this sarcastically in my vine because the saying used in my vine does not come from me, but from Bear Grylls, a survivalist. He stands on the top of Mount Everest and proclaims, “Is there more to life than this?” He experiences nature on a whole new level. But just Into the Wild, my first vine shows an unsatisfying view, wanting an independent journey far from others. My second vine talks about leaving technology behind for good. In the vine I say, “The first step in leaving technology behind is the hardest, but what’s so hard about the next few”. The message here is that becoming a leaver and abandoning technology takes time. You cannot expect yourself to abandon everything right away, but you can pace yourself and not check your phone every five minutes. You can start by not reading emails; you can stop by not turning on your phone for days at a time. Leaving technology is a process not an impulse. My third vine represents my life. I live in Farmington, Minnesota. Exactly, no one knows where that is. I want to live somewhere breath taking, where every day is an adventure. I don’t want everything to be given to me; I want to discover these places on my own. I do not want to go a grocery store to get my food because I want to go out into my back yard and hunt for my food. I want to taste water from a streaming river. I want to discover a patch of berries, but I cannot because the path of my life has been paved. Because I did not grow up surrounded by this life, this natural care free life does not belong to me no matter how bad I want it to.
Jake- Your blog helps make your Vines clearer. I wouldn't have recognized the survivalist allusion and therefore the full extent of the irony w/o that information. The stop motion in the second one works well to suggest your movement away from technology, and your line, 'it's a process not an impulse' shows wisdom. McCandless' desire for an ineffable 'more' seems present in all of these and in your blog conclusion.
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