Not sure why, except that it seemed as though it would be fun, but I made a little tiny record store. To give an idea of scale, all the albums are 1cm square.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7202/6913485185_dd13b1efd7.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7067/6913488131_8cf20d4e8d.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7187/6913490993_1925735a89.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7044/6913494297_ce510134fa.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7188/6913497401_2ab508ee2b.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7061/6913500399_576b1789db.jpg
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:04 (thirteen years ago)
that's pretty amazing!!!!
― one dis leads to another (ian), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:04 (thirteen years ago)
cute!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:06 (thirteen years ago)
that's pretty fucking cool - where's the dollar bin?
― sknybrg, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:07 (thirteen years ago)
That rules.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:14 (thirteen years ago)
awes
tho needs more mini raers
― the majestic ned? (electricsound), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:16 (thirteen years ago)
you fucking rule for this imo
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:18 (thirteen years ago)
Love this! How did you make/print the tiny records?
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:20 (thirteen years ago)
Thanks!
I just collected a whole bunch of record cover images, and (using InDesign) printed them in columns, 2 copies side by side. Then folded them down the middle, and cut them out. If that makes sense.
A dollar bin is a great idea. Will make!
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:23 (thirteen years ago)
I want one
― sleeve, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:24 (thirteen years ago)
i love it.
― estela, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:24 (thirteen years ago)
is that Blue 6 'Pure'? love this btw.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:28 (thirteen years ago)
this is very cool.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:29 (thirteen years ago)
Whoa man this really cool!
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:32 (thirteen years ago)
Is that Chronic Town down one and to the left of Screamadelica?
I think I had a Synchronicity t-shirt like that one. Will probably fit me about as well this one...
Amazingly cool!
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:33 (thirteen years ago)
I think the one you mean is a Miles Davis--Kind of Blue
The Pure 6 one is another Naked Music release, can't remember which off hand
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:36 (thirteen years ago)
This is so cool!
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:36 (thirteen years ago)
needs a copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights imo
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:38 (thirteen years ago)
way cool. You need to make a little tiny club where people can play their hard bought tiny records to tiny people.
― owenf, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:38 (thirteen years ago)
or a tiny record player for customers to listen with
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:40 (thirteen years ago)
it's funny how much that evokes several Underrated Record Shops I Have Loved
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:45 (thirteen years ago)
oh man this made my day, would you mind if I stole your idea and made one of my own?
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:57 (thirteen years ago)
no exit sign is a nice detail, as are the speakers!
― henry s, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:59 (thirteen years ago)
Those records need to be sorted into alphabetical order. *tsk*
(This is very cool, btw.)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:04 (thirteen years ago)
love it and may I request more ilxors to share their art
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)
otm, on the wall behind the counter
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:06 (thirteen years ago)
i'm totally gonna make a yelp entry for this, or try to anyway.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:09 (thirteen years ago)
lol
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:13 (thirteen years ago)
would you mind if I stole your idea and made one of my own?
please do!
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:14 (thirteen years ago)
So awesome
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:16 (thirteen years ago)
This is great! There should be a miniature Charles Mingus that walks by smoking a pipe every now and again.
all the albums are 1cm square
Hard to keep copies of Perverted by Language in stock.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:17 (thirteen years ago)
this has really made my day and apparently everybody else's
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:20 (thirteen years ago)
oh that's awesome
― Chris S, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:21 (thirteen years ago)
u should make a tiny little computer with soulseek on it
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:40 (thirteen years ago)
dude this is so great!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:42 (thirteen years ago)
Easily the best thing I've seen all day and for quite some time. Good work, thanks for sharing.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:58 (thirteen years ago)
If those are supposed to be real t-shirts the scale is only big enough for a child.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:58 (thirteen years ago)
That's why they're still in stock. Kids don't frequent 2nd-hand vinyl shops. That's my excuse, anyway
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:03 (thirteen years ago)
lol it wouldn't be ilx without someone to nitpick/get pedantic about someone's carefully crafted artwork
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:09 (thirteen years ago)
love the speakers on the wall in the 3rd pic
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:16 (thirteen years ago)
James you should also consider photographing the store using the tilt-shift technique
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:18 (thirteen years ago)
LOVE THIS!!!!
― *tera, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:26 (thirteen years ago)
― calstars, Monday, February 20, 2012 11:18 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
To make it look even smaller? Idgi
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:41 (thirteen years ago)
Amazing, amazing, amazing.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:49 (thirteen years ago)
holy hell man
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:49 (thirteen years ago)
This is just the best.
Those little records remind me of this old friend who built model semi-trucks, and for display purposes he put photo-reduced copies of Playboy and Penthouse in the sleeper cabs.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:50 (thirteen years ago)
can you make a little Scott to sit behind the counter?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:51 (thirteen years ago)
adorable
― skip, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:51 (thirteen years ago)
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
lol don't get me wrong I think the whole thing is really cool! I just don't know... the ratio t-shirt / vinyl was irking me and even the way they're positioned. I think it would look better if the walls were filled with more convert posters rather than xxxs t-shirts.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:53 (thirteen years ago)
*concert posters not convert. Did a google search for convert rock posters out of curiosity and this came out:
http://theselvedgeyard.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/3437636223_6db72196b4_o.jpg?w=600
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:56 (thirteen years ago)
Gotta pop up out of lurker deep-freeze to chime in on how cool this is. Well done, dude.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom)
Looks like Coltrane's Blue Train!
― Spectrist, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 06:41 (thirteen years ago)
Argh, so it is, sorry--peering at my own tiny photos and not seeing them very well.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 07:57 (thirteen years ago)
so great, made my day! thanks for sharing, JM. like abbbs, i'm thinking of making one of my own...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:01 (thirteen years ago)
pah-fffft @ shirt complaints
holy shit, this is fantastic
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:06 (thirteen years ago)
you need some figurines, like a balding 30something dude browsing the krautrock section and some skatepunks looking through the dollar bin.
p.s. this is amazing. you are a hero. this is the first thing to make me really happy in a few days.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:40 (thirteen years ago)
also: a listening station!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:41 (thirteen years ago)
HELLZ YEAH
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:49 (thirteen years ago)
do i spy the pretty toney album?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:50 (thirteen years ago)
If people are interested, I can post the PDFs from which to make this somewhere. I designed it all in Indesign, and all the bits print out onto 3 or 4 A4 pages of card, from memory.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:01 (thirteen years ago)
Absolutely amazing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:54 (thirteen years ago)
this is stupendous!!!!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:14 (thirteen years ago)
This rules
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:19 (thirteen years ago)
You know, pre-internet days, I'm sure a lot more of this kind of thing would be going on.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:28 (thirteen years ago)
this is fantastic.
someone needs to tell the production team of blue peter about this.
― mark e, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:02 (thirteen years ago)
this is ace!
― dove cale (c sharp major), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:37 (thirteen years ago)
Amazing--like Being John Malkovich, but much better.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:32 (thirteen years ago)
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin),
physibles or
― owenf, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:45 (thirteen years ago)
no or. Just that. Not sure it will catch on.
― owenf, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 13:46 (thirteen years ago)
This is so cool, I wish I had one.
― Nicole, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:16 (thirteen years ago)
It would really take the awesomeness of the photos to enormous proportions to have tiny animals inside the shop browsing around...
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 21 February 2012 14:43 (thirteen years ago)
Wonder if any of the customers can be found on this thread.
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:22 (thirteen years ago)
That's great, well done.
― Jeff Wright, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:44 (thirteen years ago)
I like this thing muchly.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 16:55 (thirteen years ago)
i heard James's store is getting in some pretty cool limited edition 1"s for Tiny Record Store Minute
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:04 (thirteen years ago)
this is great! can I special order some records? would like Small Faces, Little Feat, and Tiny Tim please.
― rob, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:27 (thirteen years ago)
Staff Favorites:1. "Tiny Dancer" - Elton John2. "Tiny Steps" - Elvis Costello2. "Tiny Bubbles" - Don Ho
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:32 (thirteen years ago)
i hope my favorite Steve Martin album is on display in the comedy section
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:34 (thirteen years ago)
This is Great!! reminds me of when I was a kid and made finger boards and a skate park.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 17:50 (thirteen years ago)
Cory Doctorow just posted this on BoingBoing.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 18:43 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.yelp.com/biz/vinyl-paradise-berkeley
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:15 (thirteen years ago)
I would play with this all day, so awesome.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:25 (thirteen years ago)
Would be wicked if you could post the PDFs, James. If only to look at the albums you selected.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:30 (thirteen years ago)
Would be five stars, but the t-shirts all seem to be for small children.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 19:44 (thirteen years ago)
Record Store Day just shared this on FB.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:12 (thirteen years ago)
+1
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)
Which bands/artists would do in-stores?
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:22 (thirteen years ago)
obv 2 Bad Mice
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:23 (thirteen years ago)
really really lil wayne
― TERMAINTOR 2 (some dude), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)
Paul Simon
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)
tiny tim
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:25 (thirteen years ago)
The Small Faces
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:27 (thirteen years ago)
Little Feat
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:28 (thirteen years ago)
Lady Sov
Okay, shameful irl lol at this.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:28 (thirteen years ago)
Mini-stry
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:29 (thirteen years ago)
DJP killing it itt
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:30 (thirteen years ago)
Nine Millimeter Nails
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:36 (thirteen years ago)
Little Richard.
(Finding so many great details the more I look. Loving the vintage Little Richard poster.)
― Ham House showdown (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)
the micro-phones
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:40 (thirteen years ago)
Little Howlin' Wolf
― grandavis, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:43 (thirteen years ago)
Nicki Minij
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:45 (thirteen years ago)
New York Dolls
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:46 (thirteen years ago)
Children of Bodom - and hopefully they'll fit on those t-shirts.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 20:47 (thirteen years ago)
http://www.theawl.com/2012/02/its-a-tiny-record-store
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:11 (thirteen years ago)
Definitely my fave ilx thread after 11 odd years here. Amazing work James. You could make a fortune selling these. Esp if you charged for different album covers made to order.I know I'd buy one. Put me first in the queue if you do! I wish I had the skills to make one, was always hopeless at art.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 21:19 (thirteen years ago)
The store should be called TINYL. That is all.
― writertype, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:29 (thirteen years ago)
FINYL TINYL
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:30 (thirteen years ago)
So cool.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:37 (thirteen years ago)
amazing work, and yeah you could make a fortune with these!
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:41 (thirteen years ago)
Only just saw this (I dont look at ILM much). this is the coolest most adorbs thing I ever saw!
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:43 (thirteen years ago)
I'll put together some instructions tonight and upload the PDFs somewhere after that. I checked and it's a few more than 3 or 4 pages. My memory is falling apart from sniffing all the glue involved in this thing, obviously.
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 23:23 (thirteen years ago)
May dozens of tiny record stores follow in it's wake...
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:03 (thirteen years ago)
next project: tiny model of a 3-story tower records ca. 1995, complete with escalator, metal detectors, and classical-music room separated from the rabble by thick glass.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:23 (thirteen years ago)
Six inch tall version of me thumbing through all the UK magazines in the basement of the Toronto location.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:29 (thirteen years ago)
classical-music room separated from the rabble by thick glass.
haha, yeah. actually i think the Jazz room had that, too -- at least, the one at Belden and Clark in Chicago did, I'm pretty sure
― Stormy Davis, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 06:20 (thirteen years ago)
yeah, it did.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 06:44 (thirteen years ago)
RIP
xp Not only did the jazz room at the Tower in Chicago have rabble-proof glass, but the "Pop/Vocal/Easy Listening" room had it, too. The latter was where I found Ray Charles, after looking through every other possible section for about an hour.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)
The sequel: a tiny little second-hand bookshop to the same scale...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lnw9rJiw_SY/T_P7KZmv9GI/AAAAAAAALF8/g25TB_oW_vY/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Exterior+(1).jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYd4SqgUsvM/T_P7X_JXQII/AAAAAAAALGM/9siO-SJmr74/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Exterior+(3).jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UaaX0PGOwSw/T_P7yXrOkJI/AAAAAAAALGc/O5KhNFhRs7Q/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(1).jpghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N0erCMdaBXI/T_P8MV1Ho1I/AAAAAAAALG8/Lc_4EFTPc6s/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(5).jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2JaGmZX8uDA/T_P8TLUERnI/AAAAAAAALHI/tA9q4eIHmMk/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(6).jpghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_FZCKP2biFs/T_P8ZqCvaQI/AAAAAAAALHQ/iDvJmpTOV6Q/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(7).jpghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YpEQBybTu6U/T_P8geyIhqI/AAAAAAAALHY/kO3IIrprQIw/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(8).jpg
More here: http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/not-exactly-about-full-sized-real-books.html
― an inevitable disappointment (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:23 (thirteen years ago)
You're very strange, but I'm glad.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:24 (thirteen years ago)
I thank you.
― an inevitable disappointment (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:25 (thirteen years ago)
Loving the "these are your kids on books" poster.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:30 (thirteen years ago)
yeah .. i too zoomed in on that poster ..
good stuff.
― mark e, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:01 (thirteen years ago)
This update makes me so happy! You're going to need little Fimo customers soon! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 12:48 (thirteen years ago)
i hadn't seen this before. this rules!!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:08 (eight years ago)
fantastic!
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:19 (eight years ago)
:)
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:26 (eight years ago)
omg yes
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 14:22 (eight years ago)
hot glue it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 14:55 (eight years ago)
j/k, these are cuet
Magnificent.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 19:41 (eight years ago)
i had not seen these before either :o
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 May 2017 07:42 (eight years ago)
So is there a tiny Tim in this record store?
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 26 December 2019 13:29 (five years ago)
🥁
If only i had thought of that :(
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:33 (five years ago)
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/new-miniature-record-shop-for-mice-has-opened-in-sweden-ricotta-records/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:46 (five years ago)
https://live.staticflickr.com/7666/16986211744_c8e238c1a5_b.jpgImage for Daniel Vega's Upcoming Album by Michael Paul Smith, on Flickr
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 22 August 2020 19:43 (five years ago)
This is fantastic - wonderful work, James!
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 10:22 (four years ago)
ahh i love these. thanks for reminding me they exist :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 10:25 (four years ago)
So great (lots of NYC storefront dioramas on this account, too):https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZ4eFtD3EL/
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 19:21 (four years ago)
Thank you!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:25 (four years ago)