{"id":1291,"date":"2008-06-20T20:15:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/cyclist-in-the-roof.html"},"modified":"2008-06-20T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T20:49:28","slug":"cyclist-in-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist on the roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was interviewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/\">Vanity Fair<\/a>, one of my favorite magazines along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">The Economist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired<\/a>, as their Spanish edition is about to be launched. When they asked me what my favorite sport was I replied biking, so they decided to take pictures of me while cycling on the roof of my house.<\/p>\n<p>The pictures I&#8217;ve published where taken while I was being photographed.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 194px\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: transparent url('http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/f\/img\/transparent_album_background.gif') no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/varsavsky\/VanityFairBikeShoot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/varsavsky\/SFqwTFp1sdE\/AAAAAAAAHuw\/wqXX6NgvkII\/s160-c\/VanityFairBikeShoot.jpg\" style=\"margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/varsavsky\/VanityFairBikeShoot\" style=\"color: #4d4d4d; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none\">Vanity Fair Bike Shoot<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>And here is the video:<br \/>\n<center><script src=\"http:\/\/vpod.tv\/martinvars\/509639\/include\/videoPlayer\"> <\/script><\/center><br \/>\nNow something I didn&#8217;t like. While Vanity Fair was interviewing me I googled it to find out when the newspaper was going to launch in Spain and I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/empresas\/Aterriza\/Vanity\/Fair\/elpepueconeg\/20070204elpnegemp_11\/Tes\">this<\/a> article from El Pa\u00eds, with a comment saying something like &#8220;<em>in the world there are few publishers capable of investing more then 12M euros to launch a magazine for a general audience of 40M inhabitants. One of these is Advance Publications of the Jewish brothers Samuel Irving and Donald Newhouse, comparable to the Sulzbergers, the New York Times publishers&#8230;<\/em>&#8220;. What&#8217;s the purpose of saying they are Jewish? What if  the New York Times wrote about Telefonica and its catholic CEO C\u00e9sar Alierta, or Santander Bank managed by the Catholic family Bot\u00edn? Ridiculous and unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a latent antisemitism in Spain.  When somebody is rich they call them Jewish now I still have to see El Pa\u00eds called Einstein, for example, the famous Jewish scientist.    And who am I, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fiddler_on_the_Roof\">cyclist on the roof<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1291\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was interviewed by Vanity Fair, one of my favorite magazines along with The Economist and Wired, as their Spanish edition is about to be launched. When they asked me what my favorite sport was I replied biking, so they decided to take pictures of me while cycling on the roof of my house. 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