The Japanese art of Hikaru Dorodango

There's a beautifully filmed series of videos on Vimeo called Buck The Cubicle that follows several people doing offbeat things out of the office setting. This one is pretty cool. It shows a man named Bruce Gardner in Albuquerque, New Mexico making "shiny dumpling" balls from mud and clay. A tedious process that results in a rather gorgeous piece of spherical art. I want one.