By Nick Douglas, 7:27 PM on Tue Jun 3 2008, 12,561 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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Almost a year after it originally went on YouTube, this video of a kid playing with a glass ball is starting to get big. In the clip below (followed by two more clips of the same performer), a young man in a t-shirt and fedora makes up for his terrible outfit by showing off his extremely niche body trick: He can manipulate a glass ball so it seems like a living creature, a trick called "contact juggling."

Contact juggling:

Close-up juggling:

Group tricks: