Charlie Book

NICEWERKS.COM

2008-03-27T22:37:00.011-05:00

I'm not updating this project anymore - but if you're interested, I'm still posting old drawings (i'm up to sketchbook 8 now...) and other stuff on my portfolio/reel site:

http://www.nicewerks.com

::and on flickr::

there's also a blog that i'm updating pretty frequently with various ephemera:

http://www.nicewerks.com/blog

come on by, say hi

(( CHARLIE B. SPAHT ))

Updates Coming Soon-ish

2007-06-04T20:16:00.000-05:00

Sketchbook #6 is bigger than my scanner. I'm working on borrowing a bigger one. I haven't forgotten about this project. Don't worry.

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 52

2007-05-11T17:08:00.001-05:00

another of holden

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 51

2007-05-10T17:12:00.000-05:00

holden and abigail

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2007-05-09T17:59:00.000-05:00

my mom

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studies for a painting of my sister, abigail

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SKETCHBOOK #5, page 47

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a design for a drum - the idea is like a "talking drum," which is hourglass shaped with the two heads connected to each other with cris-crossing cords - you hold it under your arm and squeeze the cords in the middle, tightening and loosening the heads, and thus raising or lowering the pitch while you play.

my idea is basically a scaled up version that would allow the player to pitch the drum with a foot-pedal - this way they could play standing up using both hands. it seemed like a good idea.

i actually built this - and it looked awesome. it would've probably worked too if i had put the head on correctly, but i didn't, so it didn't. it's in my mom's attic.

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collaborative drawing with andy dvorak while we were passengers on a roadtrip

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i doodled this while talking to my friend jessica hawkins during a studio class we had together. we were both sort of absent-mindedly working on art projects and she was half-talking to me and half-thinking out loud... i incorporated what she was saying into my drawing as she was saying it, then showed it to her when i was finished. i think she thought it was kind of funny.

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SKETCHBOOK #5, page 33

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Here's a drawing of me playing a video game called "midtown madness" on my old computer. it was drawn by joe stickney.

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haha...
no further explanation needed

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more ideas for the combining surrealists assignment

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 20

2007-04-05T16:10:00.000-05:00

pretty sure this is a straight up copy of a magritte painting.
studying.

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 19

2007-04-04T21:04:00.000-05:00

this was for some class assignment - i can't remember the class, but it was freshman level stuff; we had to reimagine a specific artist's work in the same style... these are some Rene Magritte inspired ideas.

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SKETCHBOOK #5, page 16

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It appears that we've jumped ahead here -- this is from my freshman year at SCAD, soon after arrival. From here on out, the chronology of my sketchbooks is a little all over the place. There's still a general order, but I often worked in two or three around the same time. So some books start well before another's end, and at least one spans several years.

Anyway, I know this is the earliest drawing I have from our dorm room, Oglethorpe House (a former Holiday Inn). I lived with my friend Bradford, and Mickey was just down the hall. So it was nice that we had an already established trio of friends, but we also made a few new friends pretty quickly.

I'm pretty sure this girl, Ashley, was the very first college friend we made. She and Bradford met first, I think on the first day we were all in town. They had an immediate connecion because she was also from Louisiana (I think). She hung out at our dorm room a lot during the first month or two of our freshman year. After a while, she made new friends and we didn't see much of her, and now I'm pretty sure we've all lost contact with her - no idea where she is or what she's doing nowadays. I do remember she had a funny/weird laugh. maybe she's somewhere capitalizing on that...

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 15

2007-03-31T18:02:00.000-05:00

by mickey ladd

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by mickey ladd

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by mickey ladd

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laura ochs. i drew this after getting back to camp late at night after she and i had gone to a sushi place in pensacola on my night-out. this later became a painting, but i haven't seen it in years and i have no idea where it is now.

SKETCHBOOK #5, page 7

2007-03-23T16:27:00.001-05:00

this and the last one were done during a rest-time at camp... most of the kids in my cabin were out playing, but there were 3 or 4 sticking around inside. the air conditioner was on full-blast and it felt really nice. i wanted to take a nap, but the kids in the cabin were making just enough noise to keep me awake, so i drew these weird pictures.

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2007-03-19T18:50:00.000-05:00

Here we have a rare dated drawing - which incidentally, was my brother's 16th birthday. I'm still at Camp here... probably relaxing during a rest-period, and possibly in between rounds of Tekken 3 on David Morgan's playstation.

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SKETCHBOOK #5, page 1

2007-03-17T14:18:00.002-05:00

Ah, the summer of '98. I worked at Camp Beckwith as a counselor that summer. We were "in cabin" (with campers) most of the summer, meaning you are pretty much working 24 hours a day, but we got (i think) two weeks "out of cabin," too. During those weeks, the 3 or 4 of us who were off slept in the staff cottage, which means we really didn't sleep much. After the campers bunked down, we'd have the run of the camp, along with the work and kitchen crews. It was good times.

This is a drawing I did in one of the staff cottage rooms - #3, the taj mahal. I drew this during a rest period, and I recall that my shorts were still damp from having just gone swimming. Those air conditioner units were powerul, too.

SKETCHBOOK #5, cover

2007-03-17T14:18:00.001-05:00

yep.

SKETCHBOOK #4 on Flickr

2007-03-16T19:21:00.000-05:00

Well that does it for #4. Here's the flickr link. Starting #5 tomorrow...

SKETCHBOOK #4, page 70

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laura ochs

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SKETCHBOOK #4, page 68

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This drawing eventually became a painting - a big one. incidentally, it was the first canvas I built and stretched myself. Now the painting is hanging in Jonathan Smith's poolside apartment.

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SKETCHBOOK #4, page 66

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andrea thomas and bo henderson on my orange couch in my room in fairhope

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i wrote these last two "poems" on the american legion pier in fairhope. it's true, too... i really saw a cat.

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amber hatchett

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Elizabet Elliot - we rode the same bus home from school. I drew this while we waited for our bus.

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this is based partly on a weird dream i think i had and partly on remembered pictures from "city of lost children" which i had discovered at blockbuster the night before. i'm aware that it has the stench of angsty high-school poetry - which is something that even in high school, I tried to rebel against- so for what it's worth, a disclaimer: this wasn't intended to be symbolic or metaphorical of anything... it was just an attempt at writing with evocative imagery. seriously.

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Michael Filingim

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again, with the brown paper towels!

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2007-03-01T19:17:00.000-05:00

I was reading non-stop Kerouac at this point. I was either on Dharma Bums or Desolation Angels when I drew this.

The drawing is on one of those brown paper towels that you get in High School restrooms.

SKETCHBOOK #4, page 54

2007-02-28T19:15:00.000-05:00

kellee strout

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asleep in class

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drew my shadow on the page at the beach - then added a condo building. i think this was around the time that me and my friends were "condo-pirates." We'd go to Gulf Shores and park at a gas station across the street from the beach, then once we were on the beach, we'd go into the condo buildings from the back and use their pools, restrooms, arcades, etc. If any of them were "onto us" (started asking questions about our room numbers, etc) we'd just mosey on down to the next condo in line. It worked, and it was pretty great.

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drew this at the beach

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i didn't really vote even though it was voting day. i was still seventeen at the time.

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this is a portrait of Jonathan Smith

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2007-01-31T19:21:00.000-05:00

this is corinne lassiter; i drew her in art class. she was leaning on a desk. i changed it to a window sill.