The truth is harsh, but it’s the truth nonetheless: chess isn’t very popular. If we take Belgium as an admittedly particularly bad example, we find…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…