Editor's Note

  During the last four years of my teaching digital media in Los Angeles schools, on numerous occasions my students have asked me how they can learn to be creative.

  I just read them an ancient Persian poem: " To reach the nest of love, your heart should learn to fly". I tell them I can't start the fire you need burning inside you, but I may be able to help you to enrich the creative meal you will cook with that fire!

  I sincerely believe a creative person, one who wants to be called an artist, needs continuous exposure to art and culture. When I tell a 3D animation student of mine that he/she needs to watch classic and art movies, go to art exhibitions, listen to classical music and read the great literature of the world, I am asked: "What all these have to do with 3D animation?"

  In art, regardless of the field you are in or your position in a creative team, you should have a good or at least a general grasp of contemporary and historical world art. This will train your taste and will show its effects in what ever you create or be a part of. There is great treasure left by our ancestors to discover. You can't claim to be original if you are not aware of the history of art. I go even further to say it's important to have good knowledge of our world in general. You feel a lot richer inside when you are aware of the world you are living in.
  
  To help to put our readers in touch with the world of art, from next issue of DJ we will have links to museums, concerts, movies, book fairs and art exhibitions. Please let us know what would you like to find in DJ?

  Bijan Tehrani
  Editor in Chief
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