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Jay Sadowski

It’s funny how after reading all the Bond books and seeing all the movies how certain things seem to relate to them. I’m not really sure if this is a Bond Experience per say, but it sure felt like it to me!

I needed to have my Walther PPK coded to my palm print so only I could fire it… or was it the slide stop that needed fixing? Either way it was something I didn’t know how to do.

I used my smart phone to search out an armorer. I found the closest was about 30 min. away.…

Dan Longoria

Many years ago when I worked as a bartending magician at this little bar in Berwyn, I use to do this one little trick which required a card to be marked by the person I was doing the trick for (always a woman). My line was “I need you to mark your card with this pen, so you know it is your card…put your name, address, phone number, whatever you wish”.

Using that line I put it in the woman’s hands as to whether or not she’d be interested in going out.

Does this look like a Safe House?…

After more than two months “on air” so to speak, I wanted to get a pulse check from all of you who patronize this site. Although our traffic has been nothing short of incredible, I still want to make sure that the site is meeting YOUR needs. After all, this site is about you and your James Bond experiences.

So please tell me…what do you like best so far? Videos? Your Bond Experiences? Pictures?

And just as importantly, what do you want to see more of?

For example, I was somewhat shocked how popular the basic lifestyle videos, such as The James Bond Shave and the Casino Royale Haircut, are.…

006

Earlier this year I made the biggest clothing investment of my life: a Tom Ford suit. But not any old Tom Ford suit, I wanted the brown QOS Bolivia suit. Some of you have seen my collection and my photos of the suit on ajb007.co.uk.

I wanted to let you into a story of how the suit came about.

I went to Tom Ford and inquired about getting the suit on a made-to- measure basis. I assumed that the fabric would be part of the range and it would be a simple matter of picking the colour, picking the style and hey presto!…

Barn Cronen

My Bond experience isn’t necessarily the coolest of stories or breath taken adventure. In a sense, it’s how I got MY 007 licence.

Since I can remember, I have been a Bond fan. It has always been a key feature in my life and I was one of the Bond kids to grow up with Mr Pierce Brosnan as 007; so for me he was the best Bond.

So when Brosnan left, I was sad (and young) but found myself sitting on the fence when Daniel Craig was announced. I was 15 at that point and figured I could guess the formula of Bond films thus never felt the need to judge ‘Blond Bond’.…

I am very excited to announce Matt Sherman has won the holiday photo contest and all the prizes! Everyone provided wonderful submissions but Matt’s Xmas tree of props and everything Bond captured the epitome of Bond Holiday goodness.

Congrats to all entries and we look forward to the NEXT contest!

For your viewing pleasure, here are all of the awesome entries.

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Fifty years after the first film about the secret agent whose name is Bond…James Bond, it is time to travel through Italy (150 years old), remembering the places and characters from his adventures.

I wrote the book “Dall’Italia con amore – Guida alle location di James Bond in Italia”: a guide to the Italian Bond locations, and also an opportunity to meet curious characters related to the world of the secret agent, like Jeffery Deaver, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Andrea Carlo Cappi, Edward Coffrini dell’Orto and Caterina Murino.

The guide, offering anecdotes and adventures, takes us on a journey that goes from Venice to Cortina d’Ampezzo, Lake Garda to Mantua, from Rome to Milan, Lake Como to Siena, to finish in Sardinia.…

I would like to think of the Bond community as a tightly woven group bordering on a culture of different people all galvanized by one focus. Because of this, when one in our community is slighted or an offending event happens to them, we ALL tend to feel it.

One such event occurred just the other day when a well known Bond collector found the very rare Zara enjoying death shirt on eBay and negotiated with the seller a Buy it Now purchase. The Buy it Now occurred and he was delighted.

Delighted until the seller sent him an email stating he as going to not honor the Buy it Now sale and instead was going to re-list the item because he had found out from others how valuable the item was.…

Barry King

What a stretch it has been for a die-hard Bond fan for the past…ohh let’s say few years.

Starting with Designing 007 in the early summer at the Barbican and that early morning Vesper in the Martini bar…through to Bond in Motion in October…culminating on Friday evening with the James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala at the Royal Festival Hall introduced by the ever lovely Honor Blackman.

And its surprising where a dinner suit (tuxedo) can lead you.

What a 50th Anniversary year it has been for 007…could not quite bag premiere tickets for SkyFall, but still got to see it in its first week of release

Skyfall or Casino Royale…still not sure??…

Allan

Having seen David Zaritsky’s Bond video on how to obtain a proper “Bond” haircut, and after trying and failing locally to get someone, ANYONE, to cut/style my hair into something similar to the well coiffed hairstyle Mr. Craig sports in Quantum of Solace, I made an appointment to see “JOHN” of John’s Barber Shop in beautiful and quiet Newtown, Pennsylvania.

John is a popular guy, made more so no doubt by his exposure via Dave Zaritsky’s Bond Experience website.

Not dissuaded by his popularity, I made an appointment and also discussed with him what I am looking for.

John was very accommodating and said he would research “the look” to be prepared for when I arrived.…