Videographer, filmmaker, camera operator, whatever you want to call him, Jared Foster makes some very sweet video-based “family Christmas cards.” Here’s his first, from a couple of years ago (over the voices of Bing Crosby The Drifters, I’m pretty sure, and “White Christmas”):

…and here’s last year’s (Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Winter Weather”):

You can see this year’s — an ambitious melange of still/animation and video, set to “Here Comes Santa Claus” (sung by Doris Day and company) — here.

P.S. I know this is probably a lazy-man’s blog post — look! embedded videos! — but I thought these were great.