In this original short film our regular collaborators, brutalist architectural photographer Simon Phipps and independent researcher Darren Umney, take a birds eye view of Leith Walk from Google Earth Studio. The film flies down Leith Walk from St James Quarter to Cable Wynds House capturing fragments of the spirit of the place through an automated VoiceOver (courtesy of CereProc Ltd, Edinburgh) reading extracts from the Edinburgh Evening News, Sceptical Scot, Irvine Welsh and Kevin Williamson’s Visitor’s Guide to Edinburgh, iamaleither blogspot, Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting, Bella Caledonia, Historic Environment Scotland and Reddit.
