CONTEST: Post a photo of you and your Art of War book!

[sonshi]

Just for fun and token prize, post a photo of yourself with your favorite Art of War book and I will give you a grade from 1 to 10. If you prefer, you can email me the photo to sonshi@sonshi.com and I'll post it here.

Prize: The one with the highest score wins the contest and will receive his or her choice of 3 books located at the Sonshi purchase page. If there is a tie, all individuals who share the highest score will each receive the prize. Best of all, the winning photo(s) will be enshrined at a permanent page on Sonshi.com for posterity! This contest ends June 30, 2009.

Here are the grading components and computation of the final grade:

• Originality - 25%
• Aesthetics -25%
• Difficulty - 25%
• Sonshi.com in the background - 25%
• Final Grade - 100%

Below are three examples:

Susanna Speier

• Originality - 9 - Polaroid
• Aesthetics - 9 - Faded but it's a Polaroid (nice touch!)
• Difficulty - 6 - Against a white wall
• Sonshi.com in the background - 0
• Final Grade: 6

Paris Hilton

• Originality - 7 - Reading on a comfy chair; pretty common
• Aesthetics - 10 - Need I explain?
• Difficulty - 9 - Sawyer edition is scholarly
• Sonshi.com in the background - 0
• Final Grade: 6.5

Thomas Huynh

• Originality - 8 - Love the pose
• Aesthetics - 4 - Need I explain?
• Difficulty - 7 - That table was hard
• Sonshi.com in the background - 0 - Come on, "founder"!
• Final Grade: 4.75

Now go out there and take your award-winning photo! Most of all, have fun! I'm eager to see what you all come up with.