{"id":6012,"date":"2012-02-02T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/02\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-1\/"},"modified":"2012-02-02T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:58:25","slug":"how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/02\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: Photoshop Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now officially February, and the release date for <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\"><cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite><\/a> is only a few weeks off&#8211; the official release date is Feb. 28. Of course, I&#8217;ve got a copy already:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-d2ea8148b1d54af28f09045ef4b93238-sm_both_books.jpg\" alt=\"i-d2ea8148b1d54af28f09045ef4b93238-sm_both_books.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If <em>you<\/em> would like a copy of your very own, you can either wait until the release, or take part in this shameless publicity stunt: The second-ever Dog Physics Photo Contest!<\/p>\n<p>Last time around, we did a LOLEmmy contest for a bound galley proof of the first book. This time, I&#8217;m giving away a signed copy of the finished book, so we&#8217;ll go for something a little trickier: I&#8217;ve picked three pictures from my Flickr set of dog photos, showing Emmy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/2705487986\/in\/set-72157602215810029\">sitting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/2302388936\/in\/set-72157602215810029\">play-bowing<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11070535@N08\/3218551791\/in\/set-72157602215810029\">moping<\/a>. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to crop her out of one of those three, and edit her into some other scene. Like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-33a633dba6015cf5b3fb4c79a29a7e5e-sm_emmy_solvay_conference_1927.jpg\" alt=\"i-33a633dba6015cf5b3fb4c79a29a7e5e-sm_emmy_solvay_conference_1927.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The best photoshopped picture of Emmy wins a signed copy of <cite>How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog<\/cite>. Rules and conditions below the fold:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emmy must be clearly visible in the final picture.<\/li>\n<li>You can feel free to add a caption, if it makes the joke better.<\/li>\n<li>The resulting picture must have something to do with physics (broadly defined). While I&#8217;m sure you could put her into a photo with the pepper-spraying cop or whatever the current photo meme is, unless you can somehow relate that to physics, it&#8217;s not eligible to win.<\/li>\n<li>The final image should be safe for work, as it were&#8211; no gratuitous nudity, obscene words, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The winner will be determined by a blue-ribbon committee consisting of me and Kate. The tie-breaking vote, if needed, will be provided by SteelyKid.<\/p>\n<li>All decisions by the judges are final.<\/li>\n<li>You must grant me permission to re-use your image for book promotion purposes (on the blog, on <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\">DogPhysics.com<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dog.relativity\">Facebook page<\/a>, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To enter, send me a link to your entry either by leaving it in a comment to this post, or by emailing it to the address in the Contact tab at the top of this blog. Entries must be received by 11:59 pm EST, next Friday, Feb. 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now officially February, and the release date for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is only a few weeks off&#8211; the official release date is Feb. 28. Of course, I&#8217;ve got a copy already: If you would like a copy of your very own, you can either wait until the release, or take&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2012\/02\/02\/how-to-teach-relativity-to-you-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog: Photoshop Contest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,142,7,51,50,37,132,141,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book_writing","category-books","category-how-to-teach","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pictures","category-pop_culture","category-publicity","category-relativity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}