All that tape on NHL players hockey sticks apparently has more meaning than just a way to get a better grip on their weapon of choice. The Detroit Free Press reports that some players spend hours taping their sticks before a game.\ In addtion to helping the player grip the stick and the stick grip […]
Seems like Beyonce has turned to gaffers tape to prevent a wardrobe malfunction, ala Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl performance. The London Daily Mail suggests that Beyonce should have used a little more tape to hold her revealing jump suit in place during a recent Paris appearance. Apparently fashionistas have used adhesive-backed tape for years […]
A “prankster” who stretched duct tape, sticky side up, across a Forsyth, GA highway apparently caused over $1700.00 in damage to a local woman’s car. She had to take the car to a repair shop to have the tape removed, and then needed to return to the shop for a major repair caused by the […]
When people ask me what gaffers tape is like, I usually start the description by telling them it is a cotton cloth tape made from a material similar to a pair of khaki pants. Apparently, General Pants, a clothing retailer, thinks that gaffers tape makes a great shirt too! Click here to read more about […]
The master of the “prepared” piano, Hauschka, stuffs a grand piano with ping pong balls and gaffers tape on his most recent album, Foreign Landscapes, to create buzzing percussive sounds. Hauschka is known for taking the work of composer Erik Satie and giving it a twenty first century spin by adding material to a piano […]