Share your best anecdote or recollection from the industry over the years.
It was 2001 - just weeks after the 9/11 attacks in NYC. My wife and I had driven from Niagara Falls to Queens, NY to attend the first BondCon convention at Crowne Plaze Hotel across from La Guardia airport. It was originally scheduled to take place in Connecticut, but they chose to re-locate to New York to bring people to the city in an effort to restore some sense of normalcy.
During the second night of the convention a small group of us were taking a smoke break outside the front entrance to the hotel. And as we chatted we began noticing camera flashes coming from the windows of literally dozens of rooms in the highrise hotel around us. So many flashes, it was like a stadium rock concert.
We all started joking and laughing about it...all the model shoots taking place in the rooms that night. All the regular hotel guests must've been wondering what in hell was going on.
Also that night - we had a very surreal moment.
On the other side of the hotel they were hosting a very sombre, low-key firefighter memorial for friends and family of fallen firefighters - a black-tie and gown affair complete with violin players walking amongst the crowd. As the evening wore on, many of the firefighters made their way across the lobby to our BDSM convention and started mingling with many of us producers and models - posing for photos. It was such a strange mix of people for awhile. And later we heard they thanked the convention organizers for choosing to re-locate the event and giving them something to take their minds off the tragedy just across the river.
I'll never forget that.
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