My List of Top 6 Best Lip Dub Videos

There's a new genre of video quickly gaining popularity online known as Lip Dub. Originally the creation of Vimeo founder, Jake Lodwick, lip dubs began as a simple video of a person lip-synching to a song.  Since the term lip dub was coined in 2006, the genre has evolved to include some very sophisticated staging and chorography, often produced by university students and office teams.  There have even been some interesting online competitions, such as University Lip Dub, that focus on the lip dub meme.

Most recently, the kids at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Communication Program created their own one-take video in which they perform an amazing lip-synched choreography to the Black Eyed Peas' chart-topper, I Gotta Feeling.  It's quickly gaining momentum online, and has even been featured on CNN, among other mainstream media outlets.

It tops my list of Top 6 Lip Dubs:

1. LIPDUB - I Gotta Feeling (Comm-UQAM 2009)

2. Panic At The Disco Lip Dub by Jessica Alba Team Ibeatyou

3. Lipdub HEC Montréal x 2009 / Bryan Adams - Summer of 69

4. lip dub autoroute Castres Mazamet

5. Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger

6. Flight of the Conchords - FINAL FANSTERPIECE

Girl Talk and My Top 10 Mashups

I'm going to the Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal today and I'm really excited to see mashup artist Girl Talk, AKA Gregg Gillis. I learned about Girl Talk from the NFB production, R.I.P Remix Manifesto, a documentary on copyright and the digital mashup revolution. In a tribute to Girl Talk and mashup artists everywhere, here's a list of some of the great musical / video mashups that have caught my attention. Enjoy!

1. Girl Talk - Bounce That (Best Fan Video Ever)

2. Ernie and Bert - Gangsta Rap

3. Kutiman - Thru - YOU

4. Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up  (WARNING: May include Rickrollling)

5. Say It's a Milli - Weezer vs. Lil' Wayne (Not Girl Talk Version)

6. Jay- Z and the Verve - Dirt Off Your Shoulder Bittersweet

7. JaydioHead - Minty Fresh Beats Album

8. David After Dentist After REMIX

9. Gnarls Barkley Crazy Theremin Jam (OK...so this isn't a mashup, but the theramin is too cool, so it's on the list)

10. B.U.D.D.Y. - Tripp vs. Weezer vs. Justice

How To Get Awesome Links

Rand Fishkin at SEOmoz does a great job of describing how to build high quality links in this video, part of the Whiteboard Friday series:

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