3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (439+ words) One of the more insidious ways this happens is when a television show will get handed some bags of cash by a company and asked to just, you know, sorta work a commercial into the story, but don’t make a…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (590+ words) We’ve had pretty realistic and convincing computer-generated imagery fed to us pretty regularly for about 25 years or more, and while that has been a huge boon to filmmaking in general, I think it’s also killed a bit of our sense…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (418+ words) The Dyane is an interesting car, in that it’s a sort of semi-phoned-in attempt to make a somewhat more updated and upmarket 2CV, but without really having to do all that much. The target car was the Renualt 4, which itself was…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (882+ words) In 1964, Mercury ran what may be one of the strangest print ads in car-selling history, one that involved a barn fire. And, even weirder, that ad seems to have a strange, even uncanny visual relationship to an extremely famous painting,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (779+ words) But I’m very wrong. As usual. I haven’t even come close. I was reminded of this reassuring fact of the universe the other day when my friend Jonee sent me this astounding Marketplace ad for a modified 1974 Volkswagen Beetle that…...