{"id":9630,"date":"2014-10-13T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9630"},"modified":"2014-10-13T08:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:27:46","slug":"one-does-not-simply-science-into-mordor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/10\/13\/one-does-not-simply-science-into-mordor\/","title":{"rendered":"One Does Not Simply Science Into Mordor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently shot a bunch of video of myself in front of a green screen, for something that will be revealed in due time. Of course, if you have green-screen footage of yourself, you&#8217;re pretty much obliged to do something silly with it, so here&#8217;s a quick GIMP-ing of a still from the video (also visible as the &#8220;featured image&#8221; above&#8230;).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9633\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9633\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/10\/science_into_mordor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/10\/science_into_mordor.jpg\" alt=\"One does not simply science into Mordor\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/science_into_mordor.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/science_into_mordor-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One does not simply science into Mordor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(I was going to try to put myself inside Mount Doom holding a Ring, but I couldn&#8217;t find a suitable background image, and I&#8217;ve already spent too much time on this silliness. It&#8217;s not the classic Boromir pose, but it&#8217;ll do.)<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is highly risky, the Internet being what it is, but if you think you can do better, here&#8217;s the original image:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9634\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/10\/sm_greenscreen2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/files\/2014\/10\/sm_greenscreen2.jpg\" alt=\"Me in front of a green screen making a dramatic gesture.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9634\" srcset=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sm_greenscreen2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sm_greenscreen2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Me in front of a green screen making a dramatic gesture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have another image with good photoshop potential, but we&#8217;ll see if this one produces anything entertaining first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently shot a bunch of video of myself in front of a green screen, for something that will be revealed in due time. Of course, if you have green-screen footage of yourself, you&#8217;re pretty much obliged to do something silly with it, so here&#8217;s a quick GIMP-ing of a still from the video (also&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/10\/13\/one-does-not-simply-science-into-mordor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Does Not Simply Science Into Mordor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,50,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-pictures","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}