It’s been a while since I had a chance to write a post, and here’s why: I packed up all my stuff in Brooklyn, drove a U-Haul truck four thousand miles in two weeks, and I started to teach at CalArts this morning. Here’s a handout I made to explain the video lunchbox. Though the competition is stiff, it might have the most cryptic iconography of any piece of animation equipment. The conversation went like this:

“How about the word “Settings” next to a button?”

“No, how about a top-view of a 1940′s-style chickenhead radio selector switch, along with a circle, square, and triangle, all connected by a segmented line with arrows on each end?”