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V is for Valentine Virus! Keep on spreading the good stuff

By Katherine Dodds On February 14, 2007 | 0 Comments

The Won’t Get Weird Campaign is up and running! And today is Valentine’s Day – which is Good Company’s 6^th anniversary – now we are six! We’re proud of the fact that we’ve been putting safe sex in advertising where it belongs since 2001. : ) What better time to celebrate the launch of our new viral video for Options for Sexual Health (OPT).

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Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.

Manufactured Landscapes Haunts Me

By Katherine Dodds On October 20, 2006 | 1 Comments

I saw Jennifer Baichwal's film for the first time at the Vancouver Film Festival last week. Last night it opened in Vancouver (it's been playing for several weeks in Toronto) and it will open in other Canadian cities soonI've seen a fair amount of films lately, but the flashbacks from this "art and horror" flick have been haunting me. The visual vastness of Peter Mettler's cinematography, punctuated by Edward Burtynsky's still shots, perfectly portrays the dark soul of Walmart and its kin. Manufactured Landscapes lays bare what globalization, mass-market consumption, and techno-waste actually looks like.

Visible Evidence In Brazil

By Katherine Dodds On August 31, 2006 | 0 Comments

Earlier this month I traveled to Sao Paulo and Rio, in Brazil, to participate in the Visible Evidence Documentary Conference. Invited by Concordia Communications Professors Liz Miller and Tim Scwhab to be part of their panel "Branding Politics — Emerging Forms of Distributing Political Documentaries", this was an opportunity to reflect on what we are trying to achieve with HelloCoolWorld and our work as idea distributors and net workers. (Or "discourse networkers" in more academic parlance!) Thanks to a travel grant from the Canada Council I was able to attend this conference and it was a real opportunity to think our collective project through in an inspiring setting.

Winter Soldier now playing on our blogcaster! So the Stories Get Told.

By Katherine Dodds On July 24, 2006 | 0 Comments

We at HelloCoolWorld are thrilled to be helping to promote the release on DVD of the film Winter Soldier. Described as one of the "most devastating anti-war films ever made," by Time Out New York, the film itself is both historically important and unsettlingly relevant to the state of the world and war today. But it was the DVD extras which had me thinking, again, about the power of documentary to not only to move viewers, but to influence participants.