Scarp Video

Here's a video I made for Nick Papadimitriou's book Scarp, published on 21st June.
Great going out following Nick around with a camera, first time I've really done this since the last walk we filmed for The London Perambulator in December 2008 (the Ventures and Adventures videos were just a side-product of those walks).

Scarp really is a unique book, like Richard Mabey had scoffed a load of magic mushrooms after writing The Unofficial Countryside, then read a shed full of experimental poetry and studied tank warfare and the tactics used at the Battle of Stalingrad. Or if Robert Macfarlane had gone to Borstal instead of Cambridge, then roadied for a prog rock band from Barnet and found himself a job mopping the floor of a brothel in Gdansk before finally settling down in a tower block in Middlesex.

But I'm not sure that goes even half way to fully describing what the book is really like.

I'll post a couple more videos from the day out on Scarp.

Look out for a Time Out feature on Nick next week.