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 […]
Adam Carolla explains how gaffers tape is used to make product logos disappear in reality tv shows. “On reality shows, to hide any kind of logo (like the Nike swoosh), they just cover it with black gaffer’s tape, and it bugs the crap out of Adam. Adam suggests maybe using CGI to get that out, a […]