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My outcome for my final major project at college this year. The song in the background is roughly the first minute of Nameless by Northlane from their album Node, in my opinion one of their best albums so far. Get it here https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/node/id1092351551

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- Today I will put all of my favourite edited photos in a slideshow with music on After Effects and then upload it to my YouTube channel
- I should have the link to the video on here by this afternoon

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- I will be uploading my final practice photos and then I will move onto my final photo shoot and edit them in the style of my practice photos
- By the end of the lesson I should have started my final outcome

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- Today I plan to upload a bit more practice photos and maybe merge onto my final outcome
- I should have all if not most of my practice photos uploaded by the end of the lesson and possibly have my final outcome started

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- Today I will be taking and uploading more practice photos

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- I just need to turn in everything for Lucie and that's my work done for her. Then I plan to continue working on my thumbnails and development, and start taking more practice photos

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- I plan to start designing thumbnails for photos I plan to take before the official practice shoot
- I should have some thumbnails made by the end of the lesson

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- Today I plan to upload some practice work I have done recently in the style of one or some of my chosen artists
- I should have some practice photos and my theme mind map uploaded on here by the end of the lesson

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I didn't start on my thumbnails, but I started on my theme mind map

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- I plan to start on thumbnails today as well as planning to see what kind of photography style I want for my photos
- I should have some thumbnails by the end of the lesson, as well as a solid theme I want for my photos

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I managed to do some artist responses as well as extra research on a fashion photographer I discovered along the way

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Born in Vietnam, and raised in Iran, Paris and Southern California, and assisted Richard Avedon and Steven Meisel. His clients include Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, Nina Ricci, Piazza Sempione and 7 for all Mankind. His editorial clients include Interview, Numero, V, VMan, i-D, GQ Style, and The New York Times Magazine.

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- I aim to start my development on my theme and thumbnails for what kind of photos I plan to take, as well as maybe start on artist resnponses

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Today I managed to finish most of Lucie's work but I just have to do an evaluation on some of the work for term 2.

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I managed to progress in my photography work and gathered most of it together but still have a bit to do

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An excellent example of how "a little bit every day" can make a fantastic blog

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Many musicians who use recording technology as a compositional tool refer to their studios as gardens. It's an interesting contrast to Motown, which was conceived as a factory, or Warhol's studio, which was actually named The Factory.

Prince recorded a beautiful song called " Roadhouse Garden" to christen the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse, a rehearsal space he worked in before the Purple Rain tour. The lyrics go like this:

This is the garden where emotions grow
Twenty-four feelings all in a row

(There were 24 tracks on the tape and recording console Prince used.)

Ralf Hütter, leader of the band Kraftwerk:

[Our music is] like gardening. There are certain plants that you work on, and others that grow [themselves]. It's seasonal. That's how it feels. It's why I call Kling Klang my electronic garden.

Brian Eno, perhaps the producer most famous for playing the studio like an instrument, gave a whole talk on "Composers as Gardeners":

My topic is the shift from "architect" to "gardener", where "architect" stands for "someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made", to "gardener" standing for "someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up". I will argue that today's composer are more frequently "gardeners" than "architects" and, further, that the "composer as architect" metaphor was a transitory historical blip.

He says, of his process of making music:

...one is making a kind of music in the way that one might make a garden. One is carefully constructing seeds, or finding seeds, carefully planting them and then letting them have their life. And that life isn't necessarily exactly what you'd envisaged for them. It's characteristic of the kind of work that I do that I'm really not aware of how the final result is going to look or sound. So in fact, I'm deliberately constructing systems that will put me in the same position as any other member of the audience. I want to be surprised by it as well. And indeed, I often am.

Of course, musicians are not the only creative people to use gardening metaphors. In her book, The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik champions a kind of parenting which is like gardening, explained in this Guardian review:

When we garden... we do not believe we are the ones who single-handedly create the cabbages or the roses. Rather, we toil to create the conditions in which plants have the best chance of flourishing. The gardener knows that plans will often be thwarted, Gopnik writes. "The poppy comes up neon orange instead of pale pink ... black spot and rust and aphids can never be defeated." If parents are like gardeners, the aim is to create a protected space in which our children can become themselves, rather than trying to mould them.

After all, a "kindergarten," as it was originally conceived by Friedrich Froebel, would be a garden of children, with the teachers as gardeners.

My wife has taken up gardening in our back yard in the past year, and observing her and learning more about it, I'm attracted to gardening as a metaphor - for parenting and my own creative work...

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Many musicians who use recording technology as a compositional tool refer to their studios as gardens. It's an interesting contrast to Motown, which was conceived as a factory, or Warhol's studio, which was actually named The Factory.

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Have a look at this to help yourself feel creative

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Inspired by the belief that creativity is everywhere, we gave 1000 people a blank page with a circle on it and asked them, simply, to 'be creative.' The people who participated spanned all ages, stages, places, and races and the work they produced was equally diverse, resulting in an exciting, varied, and fascinating exploration of the creativity that's possible not only for artists and creative geniuses, but for everyone.

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- I plan to finish my photography work for Lucie and might bring some of that work into my FMP since they both revolve around photography and I plan to respond to the same photographer(s). I also need to gather all my work for her units which I should have most of it by now
- I should have most of my work for Lucie finished by the end of the day if I can manage to take a few more photos and have them edited

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Some really great research here Diego - well done.
* I notice you haven't posted anything new up here for 6 days - what have you been working on?  Please can you upload your work here.
*Have you started taking your own photos yet? What's your theme/style that you're going to pursue in the studio ?
* have you got studio/photo shoot dates agreed/booked, along with whatever resources you need?
- Plan that you will need more than one/several sessions to refine your ideas.
* Since you are interested in fashion photography, you could link up with Amelia, and whatever sculptural experiments she comes up with  - you could photograph.
* Please add some comments to the chart below to identify how you are meeting/exceeding the first learning outcome for this unit.

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Today I managed to finish my general photography research and I had a little start on my initial ideas

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- Today I plan to finish my general photography research and either start on my initial ideas or artist response
- I plan to have my main photography research done by the end of the lesson and have either my initial ideas or artist response started

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- Properly start on general photography research
- I plan to have some of the general photography research started by the end of the lesson

I had part of my main photography research started by the end of the lesson

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Fantastic research here so far Diego. Have you achieved your target in yesterday's session?

Remember to write a quick review of your work/targets at the end of every session.

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- Today I plan to do some photography research and a few of the main branches of photography
- I should have my general photography research started or half-finished

I finished my proposal by the end of the lesson

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In the 1960s, Duane Michals worked as a freelance fashion photographer and portraitist, while his artistic work began to address literary and philosophical ideas about death, gender and sexuality. Working with staged scenes, he experimented with multiple exposures, sequences and combining text and drawings with his images. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. Rather than serving an explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’s singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once.

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Horst is best known for his photographs of women and fashion, but is also recognised for his photographs of interior architecture, still lifes, especially ones including plants, and environmental portraits. One of the great iconic photos of the 20th century is "The Mainbocher Corset" with its erotically charged mystery, captured by Horst in Vogue’s Paris studio in 1939. Designers like Donna Karan continue to use the timeless beauty of "The Mainbocher Corset" as an inspiration for their outerwear collections today. His work frequently reflects his interest in surrealism and his regard of the ancient Greek ideal of physical beauty.

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Good progression Diego. So what will you have by the end of the session?
Aim to gather primary and secondary research materials. Combine online resources and books.

- Kaf

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- Finish my brief and photography artist research and anything relevant to the theme I'm aiming for in my personal project
- I plan to have most or some of my artist research done by today

I had almost all of my artist research done by today

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- Finish my mind map then start my brief and artist research
- I plan to have my mind map completed and my artist research started

I had my mind map completed at the end of the lesson

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- Refine my mind map ideas and create a better mind map in a more creative way using more colours and illustrations

I had most of my improved mind map completed and I took it home to finish it

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- Start my proposal and mind map

I had my proposal started as well as my mind map