Buff Diss, a tape artist from down under, clearly can make a claim to being the “Master of Masking Tape“. Diss, from Austrialia, uses masking tape, to create outdoor art on a very a large scale. You can see some of his work by clicking here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
As a seller of gaffers tape, we were not too happy to hear bout Blair Smith’s new invention for keeping rugby players shoes tied. Blair, an 8 year old, has come up with an elastic band that keeps his shoes tied and lasts for a full season. Fortunately, Blair lives in Timaru where we currently […]
An article in The National recognizing the 30th anniversary of MTV has proven once and for all that without gaffers tape, MTV would have never gotten off the ground. The article, penned by Saul Austerlitz, recognizes Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen as on of the early videos that got MTV up and running. More specificaly, Austerlitz […]
Cloning is not quite perfected, but this is the next best thing. Click here to learn how to make a packing tape sculpture of yourself. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news and we’ll share it with the world! Thetapeworks.com.
The Children’s Museum of Houston is sponsoring a Duct Tape Jam from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5. Kids will have opportunities to make both linear rt and crafts items during the five day event. In describing the event, the promotional material refers to lowly duct tape as an “extraordinary invention”. The museum is located at […]
The web site for the ABC affiliate in Salt Lake City, UT, ABC4, shares a video on how to make colorful hair bows from duct tape. They fail to point out the downside of what happens if you make them sticky side out! Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. […]
Doclink, A South Carolina health education non-profit, recently used “Duct Tape A Doc” as a fund raising promotion that involves taping doctors to the wall. Doclink soldstrips of duct tape for $1.00 (3 for $5.00) that were used to tape the doctors to the wall. Here’s the story from The Independent Mail.com. Tapenews.com is your […]
Scammers in South Carolina convinced a woman in a gas station parking lot to purchase a brand new Apple laptop at a “volume” discount, and she jumped at a chance to purchase what she thought was a brand new computer for an unbelievable price. When she got her price purchase home she realized that what […]
The Lynn News (Lynn, UK) offers this dubious advice to owners of nice bicycles that use them to commute in urban areas. “If you do use a good bike to go into town, consider disguising it with gaffers tape” to discourage thieves. Might be easier (and a lot cheaper and less time consuming) to just […]
Seems like everybody’s hurricane preparedness kit recommendations call for duct tape as the everything-preparedness-fix all. Turns out there actually is a tape called “Hurricane Tape”, and it’s not duct tape at all. It uses a tightly woven polyethylene fabric to give it strength and an acrylic rather than natural rubber adhesive which is said to […]