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Please Face Forward While Riding the Escalator

Our Wake Up Call image today is a self-portrait by a French photographer, who goes by the name Éole. He dedicated the shot -- his attempt to fly -- to his "former acrobatic master Mister Puma." We searched, and found Mister Puma in a trove of videos. Puma appears to be part -- no doubt a central part -- of the Parisian Parkour scene. Here's Puma, a subway expert, hitting the Metro at Châtelet Les Halles with a crew....

Mister Puma

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on 05.09.09 at 11:00 by Oliver | 1 Comments

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That is too cool. I took an acrobatics class for a few months so I can *almost* do that. Haha. I wish.

Submitted by shantiani on 05.10.09 at 05:04.

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