ASMR One Small Atlas (soft speaking, paper sounds)

If you’re subscribed to Kev at WhisperCorner ASMR, you’ll remember that he did a series of five videos on a small antique atlas last year. If you missed them, check them out in this playlist:

   • 1891 Atlas  

In those vids, you get a close-up tour of every map panel in the atlas, as well as read-throughs of much of the lists and data in the front sections of the book. Really fantastic and relaxing stuff.

Near the end of that series, Kev contacted me and asked if I’d like to use that same atlas for any of my own videos. I was honored that he would think of me for this, and I was grateful to accept his generous offer. Near the turn of the new year, the atlas arrived in the mail.

It took some thinking to understand what I might do with this atlas that would compliment Kev’s videos, since his tour of the atlas was so complete. Ultimately, I decided to do two videos of my own, and I hope that you enjoy my own musings on this wonderful and fragile artifact.

This first video is a slow and patient show-and-tell in which I try to answer some of the questions I first had about the atlas when I saw it in Kev’s videos. We try to confirm the publication year of the atlas (playing around with some Roman numerals), talk a bit about John George Bartholomew and how he is credited for naming an entire continent, and finally do the big “cover reveal”, taking off the DIY wallpaper cover to reveal the original cover and the sad state of the book’s binding.

The second video will be called “Two Small Atlases”, and, well, the title alone is probably enough of a spoiler about what we’ll do in that video, so I’ll say no more about that one for now. ;-)

This video contains soft-speaking, paper sounds, some writing sounds (pencil-on-cardboard) and lots of very subtle fingers-on-wood sounds from bushing up against that old wooden panel. Love those panels! lol

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