Instead of asking, "Do you want fries with that?", at least one fine arts major is putting his art degree to use...making bobbleheads. According to
this A.P. story, anybody can have a bobblehead now, not just rich and famous.
Ralph Trumbo is neither an athlete nor a celebrity. Nevertheless, he has a bobblehead likeness of himself sitting on his mantle.
Bobbleheads, those shaky-headed 3-D caricatures, have jiggled free of their mass-produced roots of an earlier generation. Once merely featureless figures decked out in team colors and handed out on game day, they now depict just about anyone who wants one.
Even Trumbo, a Des Moines letter carrier.
"It's really cool," he said. "I take it to work and they say 'It's you.' It looks just like me."
Trumbo's bobblehead was sculpted by Bryan Guise, who creates the toys in the cramped basement of his home.
Guise, 29, has made bobbleheads for Iowa's governor, police officers, a woman with a deformed face, even a rush job for a dying man. Typically, he takes orders over the Internet and relies on photos of his subjects...
Guise, who graduated from the University of Iowa with a fine arts degree in 2002, has been drawing caricatures since he was a child. He turned that interest into a job making bobbleheads after graduation.
He won't say how many he makes beyond "quite a few." Prices range from $150 to $200.
Sounds to me like a fun and creative way to use his degree.
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