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 (twelve years ago) link
This is so cool!
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
needs a copy of Whipped Cream and Other Delights imo
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
or a tiny record player for customers to listen with
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny how much that evokes several Underrated Record Shops I Have Loved
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
no exit sign is a nice detail, as are the speakers!
― henry s, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
Those records need to be sorted into alphabetical order. *tsk*
(This is very cool, btw.)
― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
love it and may I request more ilxors to share their art
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
otm, on the wall behind the counter
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm totally gonna make a yelp entry for this, or try to anyway.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
So awesome
― dave coolier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
oh that's awesome
― Chris S, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
u should make a tiny little computer with soulseek on it
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
dude this is so great!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
love the speakers on the wall in the 3rd pic
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
James you should also consider photographing the store using the tilt-shift technique
― calstars, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
LOVE THIS!!!!
― *tera, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
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To make it look even smaller? Idgi
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
Amazing, amazing, amazing.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
holy hell man
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
can you make a little Scott to sit behind the counter?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
adorable
― skip, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
*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 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Spectrist, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
also: a listening station!
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:41 (twelve years ago) link
HELLZ YEAH
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
do i spy the pretty toney album?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 08:50 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Absolutely amazing.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
this is stupendous!!!!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:14 (twelve years ago) link
This rules
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
this is fantastic.
someone needs to tell the production team of blue peter about this.
― mark e, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
FINYL TINYL
― Can You Please POLL Out Your Window? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
So cool.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
amazing work, and yeah you could make a fortune with these!
― Volvo Twilight (p-dog), Tuesday, 21 February 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
May dozens of tiny record stores follow in it's wake...
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:03 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it did.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 06:44 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
You're very strange, but I'm glad.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
I thank you.
― an inevitable disappointment (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
Loving the "these are your kids on books" poster.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
yeah .. i too zoomed in on that poster ..
good stuff.
― mark e, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
i hadn't seen this before. this rules!!
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
fantastic!
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
:)
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link
omg yes
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
hot glue it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link
j/k, these are cuet
Magnificent.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
i had not seen these before either :o
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 May 2017 07:42 (six years ago) link
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 (four years ago) link
🥁
If only i had thought of that :(
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 28 December 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/new-miniature-record-shop-for-mice-has-opened-in-sweden-ricotta-records/
― budo jeru, Saturday, 22 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
This is fantastic - wonderful work, James!
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 10:22 (three years ago) link
ahh i love these. thanks for reminding me they exist :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 10:25 (three years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
Thank you!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link