"How do you get clematis to grow on stalks instead of vines?" I asked.
But, instead of turning Vine into a platform for sharing photos, animated GIFs, and other art forms, Twitter shut down the service, last fall.
Instead of ending Vine, it would have been better if Twitter had learned how to integrate video and community into its main platform, allowing Vine to serve as a feeder of sorts, or at least a better connected offshoot than it once was.
Instead of ending Vine, it would have been better if Twitter had learned how to integrate video and community into its main platform, allowing Vine to serve as a feeder of sorts, or at least a better connected offshoot than it once was.
The "fab tree hab" is a fanciful orb of a home that is literally alive, with a frame of growing tree trunks grafted together, insulation made of clay and straw, and vines instead of vinyl siding.
Instead of training the vines upwards on trellises, the grape growers allow the vines to hug the ground so that they can absorb the overnight humidity.
Instead of withering on the vine like Cornish and the variants of Gaelic, Welsh budded, blossomed and bloomed.
They were the inspiration of one of the molecular embryologists at the university here, who thought that inserting genes from the common crow into the invasive parrot population would put an end to the parrots' raids on our orchards and vineyards, by giving them a taste for garbage and carrion instead of fruit on the vine.
And it is this small development, this apparently small, almost insignificant, added capability which makes it possible to go through and laugh at so many Vines instead of practically living on YouTube for the same amount of laughter.
If you're lucky, when you open Vine to the horror of the homescreen instead of your art in the composer, Vine will have saved your deleted animation as a video clip to your camera roll.
