Holiday cards made by Pardis Sabeti’s laboratory at Harvard University are known for being elaborate, ridiculous, and kind of epic. For 2012, the Sabeti lab took inspiration from South Korean pop star Psy’s hit music video “Gangnam Style.” They painstakingly recreated individual scenes from the video.

The inside of the 2012 card showed scenes from the “Gangnam Style” music video.

Credits were on the back of the 2012 Sabeti Laboratory holiday card.

The Sabeti Laboratory made use of a green screen for their 2012 holiday card.

Last year, the holiday card grew yet more elaborate, involving costumes borrowed from the ART and an elaborate staging at Memorial Church intended to replicate the School of Athens.

In 2010, Sabeti and her students and post-docs went underwater, utilizing scuba and snorkeling gear and doing three photo shoots.

In 2009, as the laboratory grew, the group made a more sophisticated card, incorporating laboratory members as portraits on the wall.

The 2008 Sabeti Lab holiday card started on a whim, when Pardis Sabeti went to a local K-mart and bought festive sweaters for her small laboratory.