The science page at NBCNEWS.com featured an extensive article on duct tape, titled”How duct tape patched up the world-and why we’re sticking with it“. Still waiting for Matt Lauer to duct tape Savannah Guthrie to her chair. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news […]
Petapixel.com has instructions to make a snoot for your camera flash, using an empty Pringles potato chip can and a little gaffers tape. Find details here. Find the gaffers tape you’ll need to wrap the snoot so that you want get laughed out of town here.
You might just have to empty out your duct tape wallet and send all the money to Matt Crowley, if his claim to having made the first duct tape wallet is true. Crowley claims that he was the first to craft a wallet from duct tape when he was travelling with the Jim Rose Sideshow […]
My house runneth over with remote controls. Everything from the home entertainment center to the ceiling fans now have remotes, and every time I turn around, it seems that there is another one. Lifehacker’s Mcgyver Challenge, a contest for do it yourselfers, recently featured an entry that was a remote control holster fashioned from duct […]
Cambridge University students celebrated the completion of exams with a cardboard boat race on the River Cam. Some of the cardboard and gaffers tape vessels made the river crossing. Others were not quite so lucky. You can see a slide show here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send […]
In an interview about the future of Hollywood, film mogul Steven Spielberg let it be known that it was only after he discovered gaffers tape that his career really took off. Discussing his earliest film efforts, using an 8 millimeter camera, Spielberg admitted that he lit his first sets using floodlights held to stands with […]
Pat Loud, the matriarch in the ground breaking public television show from the 1970’s “An American Family”, recently told an interviewer that she was paid nothing to do the show that became the blue print for today’s reality television genre. Loud said that her total compensation was $432.00 to be used to repaint her kitchen […]
Last weekends’ Duct Tape Festival in Avon, OH, was “all things duct tape” to a crowd of over 40,000. Parades, a fun run, craft shows and a fashion show were all part of the activities in the tenth anniversary celebration of this iconic product. Click here to see some great pictures and to read more […]
Canadian band Broken Social Scene used the Juno Awards program telecast to express their opinion about Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Guitar player Andrew Whiteman wrote the words “VOTE HARPER OUT NOW” on white gaffers tape and placed it strategically on his guitar. Somehow, the producers of the show missed seeing it soon enough and […]
Participants in this year’s Boston Marathon have taken to wearing their “finisher” medals adorned with a piece of black electrical tape across the medal as a way to commemorate those who were killed or injured in the bombing at the finish line. Runner’s World magazine is featuring a picture of the medal on it’s most […]