Offbeat

Mastering the musical cactus requires not only a deft ear, but a good supply of bandages.

To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they've named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair.

From 1905, a troupe of schoolboys show off their puzzling foil uniforms. Students in an experimental Utopian lyceum? Or visitors from the future?

The New World Order is a harsh, cold vacuum. Video after the jump.

A glass techno-cube spinning through space, rocked by a band with the unimpeachably awesome name.

Another advertisement from the Land of People Who Want to Be Toys. Video after the jump.

Gaming culture meets graffiti meets vernacular video insanity. Video after the jump.

An inventive YouTube user shows that it doesn't take cinematic digital effects to create the morphing inkblot mask of Alan Moore's nasty antihero, Rorschach. Video after the jump.

An all-but-forgotten airborne car ferry glimpsed an alternative future of unwieldy luxury.

When it comes to Christmas, this Xmas-tree rocket launch proves that hacking is the gift that keeps on giving. Video after the jump.