On the day after Boston clinched the 2013 World Series, an article in theKitsap Sun reveals that one of the ways players come up with the perfect bat is to take several bats which have features they like and saw them up to assemble the perfect stick, holding the pieces together temporarily with duct tape. […]
Alice In Chains is back on tour and co-founder Jerry Cantrell finds himself reminiscing about the good old days for the grunge pioneers. Talking about their glory days in the 1990’s and touring with Van Halen, Cantrell says that once, as a prank, the Van Halen crew covered the stage in gaffers tape, sticky side […]
When Pascale Honore, an Australian woman, was paralyzed in an accident, she was no longer able to participate in outdoor activities with her sons. All that changed when her son’s friends actually duct taped Ms. Honore to his back and hit the waves. The adventure was captured in the documentary Duct Tape Surfing.
We’re used to references to tape in crime stories, usually when someone is tied up with duct tape. A British thief has found a new way to bring tape into disrepute, and this time it is gaffers tape. Police report that 45 year old man was arrested after being caught using the sticky tape to […]
We recently came across an interesting article regarding doing night photography. When we say “night”, we really mean “night”, as in total darkness. The secret to successfully working in this environment is to make all the necessary camera settings before venturing out, while you can still see what you are doing. Once everything is in […]
One interesting fact that has come to light in the ongoing legal drama surrounding alleged Colorado mass shooting suspect James Holmes is that the FBI has someone they call a “duct tape expert”. The FBI forensic scientist testified in a hearing involving bombs that were found in Holmes apartment and when questioned about her area […]
Everybody knows that the NFL is a money making machine. Items branded with NFL team logos sell for a premium and fans snap up items that help identify them with a certain team. A recent line of duct tape wallets is on the market and the hand made items are available in lots of NFL […]
Anybody in the film business knows that you won’t get far without gaffers tape. However, it was a lack of gaffers tape that helped create one of the most thrilling scenes in a hit movie this fall. When producers were working on the script for Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, they talked to […]
Synthetic petroleum adhesive. Ummmmmmmmmmm! Noted food photographer Erin Kunkel makes sure that gaffers tape is included in her camera bag when she does shoots for magazines like Conde Nast Traveler and Food & Wine. Kunkel says that the tape comes in handy for managing props that are part of the shoot. Click here for an […]
Not really, but it got us thinking. At the beginning of every school year, we see a number of stories about school fundraisers where students buy strips of duct tape and then use them to tape the principal to the wall, a doorway, whatever. We usually see an equal number of stories about teachers who […]