British chef Oliver Frankham says that he briefly considered using gaffers tape to bind the meat when preparing a pigs head to be cooked, before opting to use string instead. It’s hard to know if the the synthetic rubber in gaffers tape adhesive might have improved the taste. Here’s his procedure if you want to […]
In perusing a Gizomodo .com list titled “100 Tips From A Professional Photographer“, we came across at least three that make absolutely no sense. #16. Girls dig photographers. #26. Tape up any logos on your camera with black gaffers tape– it brings a lot less attention to you. #47. Don’t pamper your camera. Use and abuse […]
Gibson’s custom guitar building shop is taking their Signature replica series guitar building to what might be considered a ridiculous level. The replica of Metallica’s Kirk Hammet’s 1979 Flying V even includes three strips of black gaffers tape on the back, apparently applied because the finish had started to crack. You can read more aobut […]
Seminal British punk band The Stranglers had a very effective way to deal with “difficult” music critics during their heyday. The gaffer taped their hands together and kidnapped them! You can see the revived lineup of The Stranglers at Rock Cafe in Prague this Friday at 8:00 pm. Best leave your opinions at home. […]
Star ice skater Sam Attwater promoted this year’s Celebrity Dancing On Ice competition in an interview that included talking about using gaffers tape to fix his skates Attwater told the Scunthorpe Telegraph about using the “fix all” tape to repair his skates when the stitching broke. You can read the interview here. Tapenews.com is your […]
Photographer and gadget hound Mike Martens has found a way to couple a $24,000 camera back to the lens of a $25 camera to come up with some pretty cool digital pictures. The contraption wouldn’t work without a foot long strip of gaffers tape to create a light proof seal-cost 8.3 cents! Here’s what he […]
Australian football team, The Demons, had to use gaffers tape to black out the logo of former sponsor Energy Watch after the company withdrew their sponsorship. The players took the initiative to hide the logo when the ceo of their ex-sponsor was forced to step down after making a series of racist and sexist remarks […]
It was his knowledge of movie production that led to Stephen Workman’s arrest when he was charged with murder in Daytona Beach, FL. It appears that Workman tied up his victim with gaffers tape, a product most criminals don’t know about and can’t easily access. Police discovered Workman’s victim bound with the tape and were […]
Harmon Leon, a San Francisco comic, is currently appearing in his one man show Who Killed Smile Time, as Abraham Lincoln. Leon’s costume includes a beard made of gaffers tape which he wears while delivering Lincoln’s famous speech. You can read more about his show here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
Britian’s Got Talent, the hit tv show, is set to return to English television this week for its 2012 season. Hidden among a long list of fairly useless facts related to the production of this years epidsodes, we found this gem: 221 rolls of gaffers tape were used throughout the tour. Tapenews.com is your source […]