Wild Trend Alert

There's a new mini-documentary that's been released online called Influencers. It's all about trend setters. People who express themselves in ways that others want to listen to, react to and engage in. As one of the interviewees put it influencers emerge from places where people assemble based on passion.

Here's trend that takes the Pioneers concept that Levi's is touting to the extreme: RE-WILDING.

Here's a write up about it (more can be found at Green Anarchy)

Rewilding and reconnecting with the earth is a life project. It is not limited to intellectual comprehension or the practice of primitive skills, but instead, it is a deep understanding of the pervasive ways in which we are domesticated, fractured, and dislocated from our selves, each other, and the world, and the enormous and daily undertaking to be whole again. ... Rewilding is the process of becoming uncivilized.

Supposedly Re-Wilding communities are popping up all over like this one called Wildroots in NC.

The photographs are bye Lucas Foglia and I found them through the blog Animal.

I think it's an interesting concept that reflects the desire that we all sometimes feel to get away from the hub bub and hectic lifestyle. To unplug from it all and escape. A pro-active choice to live a simple kind of life. Perhaps not too far from the urban gardening trend. These groups just took that desire and multiplied it by 1000.

What I find amusing is that they use the Internet and other modern technology to promote themselves. Ohhhh the irony.

Fascinating non-the-less. And even more importantly, a very raw glimpse at an innate human need, a very real, even if suppressed desire to get back to nature to rediscover simplicity. Something that society at large is aching for, even if only now and again, in our ever advanced, complex world today.