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Advertising Agency: IMPACT BBDO, Beirut, Lebanon
Chief Creative Officer: Dani Richa
Creative Director: Carlos Amseyan
Copywriter: Yasmin Murad
Art Director: Nay Abou Chahla
Photographer: Roger Moukarzel Studio

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Advertising Agency: IMPACT BBDO, Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director: Yousef Khouwes, Oliver Maisey
Creative Director: Jennie Morris
Copywriter: Grant Mcgrath
Art Director: Mark Daniel Held
Photographer: Tommy Morris

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Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Beirut, Lebanon
Executive Creative Director: Bechara Mouzannar
Creative Director: Chermine Assadian
Art Director: Tania Saleh, Nayla Baaklini, Reem Kotob, Yasmina Baz
Copywriter: Rana Najjar, Rana Khoury

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Zeid Nasser, Founder of AdBlgArabia and mediaME, at Cannes Lions 2009

Entrance into Cannes Lions 2009 Exhibition & Shortlists Gallery area

Cannes Lions T-shirts for sale

Scenes from an Award ceremony

More scenes from Award show

Awards Show Ends

People streaming out of Awards hall after the show

Some winners with their “Lions” posing on the red carpet

Global warming melts the ice caps, in Cannes!

Bob Geldof speaks at “Tck Tck Tck” campaign by Kofi Anan

Maurice Levy of Publicis speaks to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google

The Press Room at Cannes Lions. Free Internet & Coffee for press!

The Microsoft Advertising lounge. Free Internet for all, no coffee

The Young Lions Competition area

Stunning interactive ‘touch & drag’ screen featuring the Cannes programme

While the world is re-appreciating his music, let’s take a second to forget about the tunes and enjoy the sheer brilliance of the professional weirdo.

The undecipherable scribble above is actually a patent that Michael Jackson filed in 1993. A little more decipherable might be the memory of this patent performed on “Smooth Criminal” in 1992.

I remember that very well because as a child, still unaware of the complexities of gravity, I tried so hard to balance my body well enough to do that. Obviously, it didn’t work. There wasn’t no internet then though and there was no way for me to find out that it had more to it than balance.

Jackson actually did it with specially designed shoes that quickly slid into pegs that rise out of the floor. The rigid anklets that worked like ski boots also helped, supporting Jackson and the dancers at that magic angle. Notice the guy on the right having a bit of trouble dealing with the shoes:

(video spliched to the last few seconds)

Brilliant, eh?

If you want to enjoy the whole video, and wonder how such a socially inept man could have been such a great stage performer, here’s the whole length of the video above:

[via dvice]