Seriously, this is a DUCK DRAMA day at work. Now they’re all flying around and quacking and possibly fighting. This duck polygamy thing is not working. 

A duck just hit our front window at work. You can see a smudge on the window where he hit. Poor guy. I think it was the interloper mallard from yesterday. Excitement! 

I hadn’t seen the ducks for a few days - I assumed they somehow had access to my FB account and I had insulted them. I saw them today. A new mallard walked right past me, quacking away, and ran aggressively towards the couple. All thee flew off. This does not bode well for the poor female. 

We have a pair of ducks that hang out alongside our facility, and I walk past them several times a day. The male gets upset when I walk by, and starts half rising up and quacking menacingly. Or at least as menacingly as a duck can be. These ducks remind me of people who move by the airport and then complain about the planes.

kirimoth:

Commissions are now OPEN!!

I’m about to wrap up a big illustration project and for the next few weeks I’ve got a lull in graphic design work, so I’m looking for some quickie commissions!

Also, I already know that June is going to be an expensive month with birthdays and Father’s Day and such and no paychecks from one of my regular clients until August…sooo….basically I need to make some money and you can get some awesome artwork done at a fraction of my usual rate!

Pricing Guidelines

$50
pencil drawings
(clean pencil line art)

 $100
inked line art
(digital or traditional)

• character bust portrait
• insect, realistic or stylized
• animal/pet portrait
• botanical illustration/study
• small tattoo flash design
(this is not an exhaustive list - feel free to email me with your ideas!)

+ digital color for $10-$100 based on complexity
+ 3/4 bust portrait for $25
+ full-length portrait for $50
+ background elements/scenery/props $10-100 based on complexity
+ print for cost of shipping

The Fine Print

- Personal or promotional non-profit use only. Please contact me to discuss rates if you are interested in art for commercial use or resale.

- No logos or graphic design projects at this time.

- First come first served basis and I will only be working on one or two illustrations at a time (I will keep a waiting list). Send a message or email describing what you want. These are for quick commissions, so if it’s not feasible for me to complete your artwork within a few hours, I may have to turn down your request.

-Payment up front via Paypal, after your request has been approved and we have agreed on a price.

If you’d like to request a commission, please email me at kiriATkirimothDOTcom or message me through Tumblr!

I will continue accepting commissions until I’m back to the big time graphic design work, probably early June.

Art Examples:

kqedscience:

Safety first!

(via Buzzfeed on G+)

I approve of this message. 

Double trouble. 200% not impressed with you.

jtotheizzoe:

thekidshouldseethis:

Math + 80s glamrock = Angle Dance. The rock group “Plane Geometry” singsplains angles in this clip from Children’s Television Workshop’s Square One Television, a show dedicated to teaching math. It ran from 1987 to 1992 (if that timeframe wasn’t already very, very clear from the video).

There’s more math in the archives. 

Thanks, Leigh.

I’ll just leave this here.

Math would be more fun to learn if we had more Glam/New Wave lessons … just sayin.

Square One was my favorite show for quite some time. So happy to see it!

californiastatelibrary:

Marilyn Reece, Civil Engineer

What do you do when you like math but don’t want to become a teacher? You could be a civil engineer, like Marilyn Reece.

She was the first woman to be a fully-licensed civil engineer in California and she’s featured in our May calendar of women trailblazers in science, tech, engineering and math.

Inspiration. 

kfan:

Fig. 1: What it looks like when you make money on the Nook 

Fig. 2: What it looks like when you make money on the Kindle

The captions elevate it.