Emacs, a programmer's text editor with roots in the 1970s, is a great tool for animation. In Fall, 2010 I taught a digital art class at NYU's interdisciplinary Steinhardt art school. Clearly, the thing to do was to teach how to make animations in Emacs by programming it in Lisp. These exercises are meant for non-programmers to get a glimpse of what a program and a language can do, by creating "phy