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Beacon Hill on a summer afternoon in heavy rain: wet cobblestones between brick rowhouses, ivy and flower boxes on the walls.
Beacon Hill

4K Walk in Heavy Rain - Beacon Hill - Boston, MA - ASMR Walking 3D Binaural Audio

Summer · Rain · 1 hr 13 min · August 2023

Heavy rain, Beacon Hill, a summer afternoon. The field notes are candid about the luck of it — a real rainstorm caught on the cobblestones, the kind that clears the streets and hands the neighborhood to whoever stayed out. Acorn Street and Cedar Lane get named as favorites, and they earn it. The rain works the umbrella hard the whole way; under it, binaural 3D sound holds everything at its true distance — rain close, streets near, Boston somewhere out past the brick. An hour and thirteen minutes at a film-slow twenty-four frames, which is long enough to stop being a video and start being weather. Sleep through it, study against it, or take the particular wealth of having a historic street to yourself while everyone else waits it out indoors.

Video poster: Beacon Hill on a summer afternoon in heavy rain: wet cobblestones between brick rowhouses, ivy and flower boxes on the walls.

Best with headphones — the audio is true binaural. Watch on YouTube (recommended on TV).

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