Beautiful Balls of Mud

June 22, 2007 6:34 PM

Not too long ago there was a post about a guy who hand-polished balls of mud thus creating works of art. My searches fail me. Can anyone point me to that? Thank you.
posted by snsranch to MetaFilter-Related at 6:34 PM (11 comments total)

Is this the one?
posted by nobodyyouknow at 6:46 PM on June 22, 2007

wow, the inline images in that old thread really startled me. May 2006? has it really been only a year?
posted by PercussivePaul at 8:31 PM on June 22, 2007

Yes. YES. YEA!!!!!!!! Apparently I didn't include "shiny" in my search. Many thanks, nobodyyouknowsan.
posted by snsranch at 8:31 PM on June 22, 2007

Hey!!!! Mark it as "best answer" you ingrate!!!!!

Oh wait. Sorry. Forgot where I was.
posted by The Deej at 10:10 PM on June 22, 2007

There are a few amazing examples, really shiny, on Flickr. Search for dorodango.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:13 AM on June 23, 2007

I've been hand-polishing my balls for years and no one's called them works of art. Hell, I was doing it yesterday, and they threw me off the bus and ripped up my pass.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 6:30 AM on June 23, 2007 [4 favorites]

wow, the inline images in that old thread really startled me. May 2006? has it really been only a year?

If you use Firefox, this add-on will automatically convert links to images into inline images. Presto chango! It worked for me on this thread just fine, for example (note you have to switch it on with the little status bar icon before it starts working).
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:41 AM on June 23, 2007

MetaTalk: Hand-polishing my balls.
posted by loquacious at 7:08 AM on June 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

The current issue of Craft magazine has a how-to on how to make these, as well.
posted by leesh at 9:41 AM on June 23, 2007

I remembered it as a Japanese thing, so I got there by searching Google for "japanese mud balls." That gave me the name of them, "dorodango," which I then searched for on Metafilter.
posted by nobodyyouknow at 12:01 PM on June 23, 2007

I've been hand-polishing my balls for years and no one's called them works of art. Hell, I was doing it yesterday, and they threw me off the bus and ripped up my pass.

I checked this thread just to see how long it took someone to post that.
posted by spiderwire at 8:28 PM on June 23, 2007