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Back in January, myself and 16 other students got together with our professor to create videos about sustainability and the carbon footprint. The name of the class, was "Planet Forward," and together we created these videos for the program, with the same name, in hopes of maybe getting our videos put on PBS.

The result, was not just an amount of incredibly epic videos, but we also created a bond that I will never forget. 

My purpose for this entry, is to just announce that I simply miss Planet Forward. I miss getting up at 8 a.m. and driving to class, just so we can storyboard, film, interview, and edit

to produce these incredible video shorts. I had no problem staying until 10 or 11 at night, because I was enjoying what I was doing, and I was with some incredible people.

My team, Brasso, made four films. One was about a local farmer's market, where we interviewed farmers about the importance of shopping locally and its ability to reduce carbon footprints/ Our second video was a man on the street interview, where we asked people in 

Boston, Providence, and on our local campus just exactly, "What is a carbon footprint?"

Our third video went towards a more art nouveau-esque route, where we created a horror film of a bathtub with flashing scenes of nature. The purpose, was to explain an article mentioned in national Geographic about the carbon cycle. The bathtub 

filling up with water represented the atmosphere filling with carbon emissions, and despite the fact that the drain was working, it was going at a much slower pace than the water filling up, so eventually the bathtub will overflow, 'drowning' us all. We weren't sure at first if anyone would understand this, so in order to explain it, we did a "Mystery Science Theater" theme and had our own silhouettes explain what was happening.

The final video, my baby, was about shopping locally, and we followed local beef from the farm to the plate.

 Ironically, that was the name of the video, "From the Farm to the Plate." 

But why write about all this now? Today, one of our members was casually posting photos on Facebook, and it really made me miss our class. I miss producing and doing things that actually do something. I'm tired of sitting in class all day and taking notes. I want to get out there and do something, anything.

I guess to make this short, I'm ready to graduate. I miss this class and being with my team (even though I see you guys all the time). I want to go back to Planet Forward where things were simple, and I want to make some kick-ass videos again. 

Team Brasso for life!

~Gaga