PhotojournalistS covering conflicts around the world are at greater risk than ever before. The recent deaths of a couple of photographers covering middle east conflicts have resonated around the world. It used to be that photographers greatest risk came from “getting in the way”. Now it seems that they have become targets of the combatants. […]
In an attempt to prove that everything can be recycled, a group of Buffalo, NY high school students took on a project to repurpose candy wrappers, lottery tickets, milk cartons and duct tape. This “going green” project covered four different categories. The most interesting, by far, was making a duct tape dress. And yes, of […]
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 […]
The exectutive producer of American Idol was reduced to using gaffers tape to cover Steven Tyler’s mouth after the Aerosmith lead singer dropped the “F Bomb” on live tv while describing the performance of on of the contestants. Nigel Lythgoe, along with a number of other Fox network execs, was forced to run an apology […]
Duct tape has moved into prime time recently, thanks to some shows on the popular television program Mythbusters. The Mythbusters are testing the limits of duct tape strength by doing things like taping a car to a pole (who hasn’t wanted to do that at least once?) . Their most recent adventure is building a duct […]
The owner of a 1958 Piper Cub on a fishing trip in Alaska failed to clean the aroma of salmon from his airplane and a passing grizzly decided to use his claws on the plane like a canopener. Three cases of duct tape later and the fisherman was cruising home with his catch. Read […]