The London Olympics are four months away, but gaffers tape has already won a medal. Sara Edworthy, venue coordinator for this years Olympics, spends her days looking for loose door knobs, drooping signs and thousand of other problems that might prevent smooth operations when the games begin. Once the games get started, she will head […]
Florida technical college student Patrick Varnadore rose to the challenge of his classmates by covering his 1986 Chrysler with duct tape. He’s about 60 percent finished with covering the car with orange tape and is working on recreating the look of the car from the Dukes of Hazard television show completely with tape. Varnadore’s feat […]
The success of the most recent Van Halen tour has meant that lots of stories have resurfaced about the best and worst of the band’s journey through the rock touring universe. Some of the most interesting tales involve the times prior to their 2004 reunion tour when Sammy Hagar described bandmate Eddie Van Halen’s shoddy […]
British chef Oliver Frankham says that he briefly considered using gaffers tape to bind the meat when preparing a pigs head to be cooked, before opting to use string instead. It’s hard to know if the the synthetic rubber in gaffers tape adhesive might have improved the taste. Here’s his procedure if you want to […]
In perusing a Gizomodo .com list titled “100 Tips From A Professional Photographer“, we came across at least three that make absolutely no sense. #16. Girls dig photographers. #26. Tape up any logos on your camera with black gaffers tape– it brings a lot less attention to you. #47. Don’t pamper your camera. Use and abuse […]