It Gets Better Canada

Here we go. Tommy Smythe and I couldn't be prouder of the It Gets Better Canada video, it was posted on YouTube yesterday at around 5pm and has already reached more than 1,600 hits. Major thanks again for everyone's unfailing support on the project, and we have to give a shout out to the incredible crew who worked behind the scenes, including director Jean-Marc Piché, everyone at Peace Point Entertainment Group, the team at Imported Artists, and Corinne McDermott. Thanks too to Audrey Hyams-Romoff and Amanda Losier, and the rest of the stellar crew at OverCat Communications. Oh, and a special hello, we think you're just great! to the CBC's online, radio and television news, as well as Rick Mercer and George Stroumboulopoulos for being so kind and getting the word out.

So, what's next? Well, we're planning on expanding the video into something longer (that's what happens when you get an incredible 10 hours of interviews) and would love to be able to offer it as a resource to schools and anyone else who'd like to screen it. In other words, this is just the beginning.

More on that Very Important Project

I mentioned a while back about a Very Important Project that Tommy Smythe and I were working on, so here are the deets - In case you didn't happen to catch CBC's The National on Friday (have a look at a clip here), we have pulled together (with absolutely tons of incredible help) a Canadian video for the It Gets Better Project, which was all started by writer Dan Savage as a show of strength by the LGBT community over the awful series of gay teen suicides reported in the press. We got in touch with Rick Mercer, Mark Tewksbury, David Clemmer, Joeffer Caoc, George Smitherman, Anne Marie Macdonald, Peter Fallico, Diane Flacks, Rex Harrington, Deb Pearce, Enza Anderson, the cast of MTV’s 1 girl 5 gays, and many, many more and they all agreed to share their personal stories. 

It launches tomorrow night, and we couldn't be more excited to share it with as many people as possible. Watch this space, because I'll be posting the video here as soon as it's live on YouTube!

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On the design side of things, here's some of the latest stuff that I'm ogling at Crate & Barrel. C&B have hunted through the Dansk archives and re-issued this great capsule collection of mid-centrury Jens Quistgaard designs in eco freindly acacia wood.