My Portfolio: Idiom (P) by Dayna Elizabeth Spry

"I based this project off of the idiom project. A Chip on Your Shoulder means that you are angry about something that happened in the past and may even hold a grudge, carrying that burden around with you wherever you go. I chose this idiom because it describes me very well. I have a habit of carrying grudges and being angry at the littlest things. This is a picture of President Barack Obama with a potato chip on his shoulder. Of course, I chose President Obama as my person because he is the President which probably means he carries around a lot of anger and grudges even thought he may not show it. This exact picture of Obama shows him kind of grunting, like he's mad. I used a potato chip because that is what most people think of when they think of a 'chip'. I cropped the picture of Obama to focus on just him. Then I pasted the picture of the potato chip on the picture of Obama. I erased the unnecessary stuff around the potato chip. I then scaled and moved the potato chip around until it looked proportional with the picture. I used an Artistic Filter on this picture. This reminds almost reminds me of a collage of little pieces of paper or pictures. I liked the idea of doing idioms so I decided this would be a good project to add to my portfolio. I really thought that this was a good representation of this idiom."
CITATIONS

Klein, Ezra. March 2. Obama Fiscal Cliff. [photograph.] Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/02/this-is-why-obama-cant-make-a-deal-with-republicans/

drskn08. September 22, 2011. Potato Chips. [photograph.] Retrieved from http://www.pxleyes.com/photography-picture/4e7c4068152ba/Potato-Chips.html