This is so much more eloquent and poetic than I could manage that I'm just going to tell you to go and read it. Not only because it's about how older technologies are being superseded by the new (and in publishing, that's just as true with eBooks supplanting paper and physical media), but because she uses it as a jumping-off point for a much broader perspective.

She recognises our place in a continuum where no matter what the current technology is, we as its users and creators gather to talk about and guide its future in the same way that the clergy and stonemasons in a cathedral would have gathered to discuss the continuing construction of their building in the fourteenth century. Their object would have been to make the best possible version of a building that they could, and a group of cinematographers and artists talking about film and its future are concerned in the end with making the best possible image they can, no matter what's behind the lens being used to capture it.

The event was called "A Celebration of Film" and we were guests of ARRI Media, Kodak, Fuji, the BSC, Panavision and various other industry bodies, our thanks to them for an unexpectedly enlightening evening.

The Brecon Beacons from below Twmpa yesterday

Something I do fairly regularly, yesterday we walked from Worth to Durlston Castle and back. Unusually the breeze was from the North so we were very sheltered in the lee of the coastal ridge, and the sea was as calm as I've ever seen it at this time of year. The picture looks West a couple of hours before sunset, the colour in the sky and the light were more like a late summer evening. We started the day in down jackets and woolly hats, but it warmed up enough for a couple of layers to be adequate protection. A good day...

I helped a friend design a site for her Sound & Energy Healing Workshops and used Squarespace after hearing it repeatedly puffed on various Tech podcasts, she was so grateful for the ease of use, after a strong initial reluctance to manage her own website, that I realised I might as well give it a try.

So with the gap in work around Christmas I am dragging some things over from the old site and adding some new stuff, and actually enjoying the process. As I write this, I haven't gone live but I'm hoping the transition will be seamless.

We shot on Fuji 250T stock, mostly pushed 1 stop (processing at Deluxe) with an ARRICAM from ARRI Media and a set of Cooke S4 lenses. ARRI Lighting supplied a generous package, and I had a terrific camera and electrical crew over the five days of the shoot. I didn't shoot with a Digital Intermediate planned, but after some heroic negotiation by our post-production supervisor Capital FX scanned the negative at 2k and we graded the finished 11 minutes at their facility in Oxford Circus in real time, projected on-screen. Then it was recorded back to film on CFX's ARRILASER, and Deluxe made the showprint.

Although it's a science fiction story, there's only one Visual FX shot: Double Negative lived up to their name by making a make-up corridor at Shepperton twice as wide. Also colourist Andrew Lim at Capital FX did a great job with a 'security camera' look for one of the sequences. Apart from the finale on Wandsworth Bridge, the whole shoot was at Shepperton Studios (thanks to Gary Stone), although we never actually got inside a stage.

Once again, Dana Wilson took the stills, no dedicated site or trailer yet but watch this space...

We shot on Kodak 200T stock, pushed to 400 for the night interiors and exteriors, on a very generous Panavision camera package (Platinum & Primos). Lighting - a 2.5kW HMI PAR and a selection of Kinos and small units - came from Lee Lighting. Deluxe did a great job on the processing and print, and the only VFX elements are the titles burnt into the opening of the film, done at Capital FX in Dering Street.

Christine Hartland was the producer, she and Mike have done wonders to get it this far and we're now very excited about its future. Stills and more information are at the "Sick" website .

Please go and visit it - she can write, too!