I made a little tiny record store and I'm boasting about it

That rules.

awes

tho needs more mini raers

you fucking rule for this imo

Love this! How did you make/print the tiny records?

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!

I want one

i love it.

is that Blue 6 'Pure'? love this btw.

this is very cool.

Whoa man this really cool!

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!

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

This is so cool!

needs a copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights imo

way cool. You need to make a little tiny club where people can play their hard bought tiny records to tiny people.

or a tiny record player for customers to listen with

it's funny how much that evokes several Underrated Record Shops I Have Loved

oh man this made my day, would you mind if I stole your idea and made one of my own?

no exit sign is a nice detail, as are the speakers!

Those records need to be sorted into alphabetical order. *tsk*

(This is very cool, btw.)

love it and may I request more ilxors to share their art

needs a copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights imo

otm, on the wall behind the counter

i'm totally gonna make a yelp entry for this, or try to anyway.

lol

would you mind if I stole your idea and made one of my own?

please do!

So awesome

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.

this has really made my day and apparently everybody else's

oh that's awesome

u should make a tiny little computer with soulseek on it

dude this is so great!

Easily the best thing I've seen all day and for quite some time. Good work, thanks for sharing.

If those are supposed to be real t-shirts the scale is only big enough for a child.

That's why they're still in stock. Kids don't frequent 2nd-hand vinyl shops. That's my excuse, anyway

If those are supposed to be real t-shirts the scale is only big enough for a child.

lol it wouldn't be ilx without someone to nitpick/get pedantic about someone's carefully crafted artwork

love the speakers on the wall in the 3rd pic

James you should also consider photographing the store using the tilt-shift technique

LOVE THIS!!!!

James you should also consider photographing the store using the tilt-shift technique

― calstars, Monday, February 20, 2012 11:18 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To make it look even smaller? Idgi

Amazing, amazing, amazing.

holy hell man

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.

can you make a little Scott to sit behind the counter?

adorable

If those are supposed to be real t-shirts the scale is only big enough for a child.

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)

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.

*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

Gotta pop up out of lurker deep-freeze to chime in on how cool this is. Well done, dude.

Is that Chronic Town down one and to the left of Screamadelica?

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom)

Looks like Coltrane's Blue Train!

Argh, so it is, sorry--peering at my own tiny photos and not seeing them very well.

so great, made my day! thanks for sharing, JM. like abbbs, i'm thinking of making one of my own...

pah-fffft @ shirt complaints

DJP killing it itt

Nine Millimeter Nails

Little Richard.

(Finding so many great details the more I look. Loving the vintage Little Richard poster.)

the micro-phones

Little Howlin' Wolf

Nicki Minij

New York Dolls

Children of Bodom - and hopefully they'll fit on those t-shirts.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/02/its-a-tiny-record-store

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.

The store should be called TINYL. That is all.

FINYL TINYL

So cool.

amazing work, and yeah you could make a fortune with these!

Only just saw this (I dont look at ILM much). this is the coolest most adorbs thing I ever saw!

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.

May dozens of tiny record stores follow in it's wake...

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.

Six inch tall version of me thumbing through all the UK magazines in the basement of the Toronto location.

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

yeah, it did.

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.

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).jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GYd4SqgUsvM/T_P7X_JXQII/AAAAAAAALGM/9siO-SJmr74/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Exterior+(3).jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UaaX0PGOwSw/T_P7yXrOkJI/AAAAAAAALGc/O5KhNFhRs7Q/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(1).jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N0erCMdaBXI/T_P8MV1Ho1I/AAAAAAAALG8/Lc_4EFTPc6s/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(5).jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2JaGmZX8uDA/T_P8TLUERnI/AAAAAAAALHI/tA9q4eIHmMk/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(6).jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_FZCKP2biFs/T_P8ZqCvaQI/AAAAAAAALHQ/iDvJmpTOV6Q/s400/Argosy+Books+-+Interior+(7).jpg
http://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

You're very strange, but I'm glad.

I thank you.

Loving the "these are your kids on books" poster.

yeah .. i too zoomed in on that poster ..

good stuff.

This update makes me so happy! You're going to need little Fimo customers soon! :)

i hadn't seen this before. this rules!!

fantastic!

:)

omg yes

hot glue it

j/k, these are cuet

Magnificent.

i had not seen these before either :o

So is there a tiny Tim in this record store?

🥁

If only i had thought of that :(

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/new-miniature-record-shop-for-mice-has-opened-in-sweden-ricotta-records/

https://live.staticflickr.com/7666/16986211744_c8e238c1a5_b.jpgImage for Daniel Vega's Upcoming Album by Michael Paul Smith, on Flickr

This is fantastic - wonderful work, James!

ahh i love these. thanks for reminding me they exist :)

So great (lots of NYC storefront dioramas on this account, too):
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLZ4eFtD3EL/

Thank you!