Regardless of who walks the red carpet at next week’s Oscar Ceremonies, gaffers tape will be the winner. Hollywood stylists revealed some of their Oscar night styling secrets to The Hollywood Reporter. Apparently, gaffers tape is a favorite among the fashionistas for making sure that nominees gowns look fabulous. Other favorites include cut up panty [...]
I’m not sure that I’ ready to pay $8.00 for a roll of packing tape, but if I was, these guys would get my money! Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world!
One of the more mysterious specifications relating to duct tape is a number called “tensile strength“. Tensile strength is a measurement that determines how hard you can pull on a piece of tape before it breaks. When the Myth Busters wanted to build a bridge from duct tape, they first had to measure it’s tensile [...]
MS NBC in its “The Royals” segment reports that British Royal Family newcomers Kate and Pippa Middleton have pushed Lady Gaga out of fashion’s top spot in the new year. It appears that Gaga’s gaffers tape dress has fallen from the top of the charts in what MSNBC has dubbed as the “duchess effect”. Tapenews.com [...]
Australian filmmaker Dave Jones uses giant puppets in his performance piece “Highly Strung“. Jones told the Huffington Post that one of their 45 foot puppets included a projector that was mounted inside the puppet’s mouth. Program material was generated by a remotely controlled ipod. How was the ipod attached to the puppet? With gaffers tape, [...]
The Watford Observer in England included this useful bit of information in an article about the abduction and murder of a local man. The paper detailed the killer’s plan, including the contents of something they called a “kidnap” kit. The kidnappers laptop bag included knives, gaffers tape, scalpels and face masks. Here is a link [...]
Alicia Lyons, a day care worker in Kentucky has solved the problem of unruly children who don’t want to settle down at nap time. She duct tapes them to their floor mats! Lyons, along with a co-worker, taped at least one child, an 18 month old, to the floor to enforce the nap time rules. [...]
We’ve made occasional auto repairs with duct tape, but never realized that it has now become a standard component in auto maintenance. As these tips from octanecreative.com show, you probably should not leave the garage without a roll under the seat. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us [...]
A Pennsylvania judge, Tommy Creany, ordered that a defendant in his court room have has mouth duct taped to stop outbursts during jury selection. The defendant, Erik Britt, was silenced by the judge after repeated attempts by Britt to disrupt the proceedings in the trial of his assault case. You can read the details here. [...]
Gregory Simpson, a professional photographer and musician, has brought the classic pinhole camera into the modern age, fashioning a pin hole lens for his Leica camera by covering the lens opening with gaffers tape. Leica cameras are known among pros for their uncompromising sharpness, but Simpson’s approach heads in the opposite direction. The lack of [...]
