CIPC #190: Kentucky Tavern ad
No interesting introduction this time. The New Yorker of February 2nd 1946 contains an advertisement for the Kentucky Tavern brand bourbon. It features a chess board. I’m going to talk...
CIPC #176: Shera ceiling tiles ad
I have bad news for the regular CIPC readers: today we’re going to tackle a philosophical question. Yes, one of those deep mysteries that bother all of us but that,...
CIPC#174: State Farm commerical
State Farm is one of those things, like red sups and school shootings, which most of the world is only familiar with through American media. In this case, the familiarity...
CIPC #170: Camel advertisement
If you were to ask me for my favourite sites, I would probably go on a tangent about how one should not assume that such orderings are linear and that...
CIPC #155: Hanes advertisement
If you thought we already plumbed the depths of human society last week, here’s a treat for you! Not only do we once again visit the crusty world of advertisement,...
CIPC #154: 2016 Kia Optima commercial
After one whole blog post about high culture, we descend once more into the dank morass of the worst type of popular culture: commercials. Our object of study today is...
CIPC #139: Miller advertisement
The image below can be found easily on the net. It is apparently from an advertisement campaign for Miller beer from, I think, the end of the fifties. The slogan...
CIPC #137: Coca cola advertisement
The greatest rivalries of history and literature – the Montagues and the Capulets, the Hatfields and the McCoys, Barça and Real- pale in comparison to the rivalry between Pepsi Cola...
CIPC #128: Keds advertisement
Keds is a brand of sneakers. As in, footwear. But you wouldn’t be able to tell from their advertisement. Case in point: the image below, which was featured in a...
CIPC #122: meetup.com commercial
Apparently, there are people out there. As if that thought wasn’t scary enough, those people sometimes want to meet each other. This is precisely what the founders of meetup.com realised...
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