Multi-culti Marvelousness... and Dervish

The song for this post is "Dervish", from the first Shinjuku Zulu release, at iTunes "HERE":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=7899232&s=143441&i=7898192So yesterday (Saturday) morning I had a couple people interested in the "art":http://web.mac.com/neuphoria/iWeb/K.I.A.%20-%20Art/K.I.A.%20Art.html come over to my studio to look at my remixable and static paintings. I verbally bittorrented the "ideas":http://web.mac.com/neuphoria/iWeb/K.I.A.%20-%20Art/Ideas....html behind the work at them as I showed them around, because I had to start get the space ready for a video shoot later in the day. (Aside: one person bought a piece, one is considering.) Then my wife "Zanesha Gowrali":http://www.nu4ya.com/gowrali/womenswear.htm, a fashion designer, had in an actress in who had just worn one of her gowns to the Geminis (Canada's Emmy Awards.) After that, she had a second meeting with a couple for whom she was designing some pieces. As her meetings went on, I remixed some of the large paintings so they'd function as color-fields for backdrops to the video, and did some cleaning and sweeping and dusting. ("The glamorous, the glamorous life", indeed.) Everyone who'd come so far hung around.By the time the grunt work was done, the director arrived, as did the dancer we were shooting for the video, accompanied by her boyfriend. (For the video we're shooting various parts of the body, then effecting the footage so what's seen onscreen will be abstracted but clearly be anthropomorphic. "Is that what I think it is?" would be reaction we'd be happy with. Maybe with an "Ew!" or "That beautiful" preceeding it. And btw, the answer to that question is "Yes it is", and "No it isn't.") We got what we wanted in a couple hours (it's a purposely lo-fi D.I.Y vid, inspired by the youtube and metv generation,) perhaps helped by the simple directions to the dancer, the actress, and the civilians hanging around the studio we also roped into the shoot. The directions, in a nutshell, were this: "Shake it." ("It" being the obvious jigglable bits, but also hair, jaw, tongue.)Now I realize the above few paragraphs might read somewhat drily as "and then, and then, and then", but what I realized today (Sunday), and what made me decide to post about it, was this: everyone who came was Canadian, but... one of the art-viewers was Morrocan (and Jewish), the other, her friend, was Chinese; Zanesha's actress client was half-Chinese, half-European; the couple that next came to see her was Caucasian and Chinese, and gay; Zanesha herself West Indian (Muslim); the director is South African (Jewish); the dancer is Latin (from Columbia); her boyfriend is half East Indian, half Dutch; and I am of Scandinavian descent, a typical WASP.But even better: the fact that everyone we interacted with yesterday came from such diverse backgrounds didn't even register as unusual. And that, that is marvelous.