Crocodile hunter and adventurer Ray Mears uses gaffers tape to immobilize trapped crocs by taping their snouts and legs before moving them to a crocodile farm. You can read more about Mear’s reality tv show, Saltwater Crocodile on ITV, if you click here.
Luke Evans, a journalist covering this year’s Tour de France for Cycling Weekly is one of many writers and photographers following the race by motor bike. Evans reports that while his bike was parked on the street in Nice, someone broke into its storage compartment and stole his gaffers tape. Here is where he can […]
Petapixel.com has instructions to make a snoot for your camera flash, using an empty Pringles potato chip can and a little gaffers tape. Find details here. Find the gaffers tape you’ll need to wrap the snoot so that you want get laughed out of town here.
You might just have to empty out your duct tape wallet and send all the money to Matt Crowley, if his claim to having made the first duct tape wallet is true. Crowley claims that he was the first to craft a wallet from duct tape when he was travelling with the Jim Rose Sideshow […]
Cambridge University students celebrated the completion of exams with a cardboard boat race on the River Cam. Some of the cardboard and gaffers tape vessels made the river crossing. Others were not quite so lucky. You can see a slide show here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send […]
In an interview about the future of Hollywood, film mogul Steven Spielberg let it be known that it was only after he discovered gaffers tape that his career really took off. Discussing his earliest film efforts, using an 8 millimeter camera, Spielberg admitted that he lit his first sets using floodlights held to stands with […]
Pat Loud, the matriarch in the ground breaking public television show from the 1970’s “An American Family”, recently told an interviewer that she was paid nothing to do the show that became the blue print for today’s reality television genre. Loud said that her total compensation was $432.00 to be used to repaint her kitchen […]
Canadian band Broken Social Scene used the Juno Awards program telecast to express their opinion about Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Guitar player Andrew Whiteman wrote the words “VOTE HARPER OUT NOW” on white gaffers tape and placed it strategically on his guitar. Somehow, the producers of the show missed seeing it soon enough and […]
Dutch video production company United provided flawless audio support for the telecast of the abdication of Dutch queen Beatrice and the ascendance of her son Willem-Alexander through the use of many strategically placed microphones. One of the greatest challenges was letting the viewing audience hear the oath of office taken by 250 members of parliment, […]
In an Instagram pic released by Kim Kardashian, in conjunction with Kanye West’s latest Saturday Night Live appearance, the name of his new album, “Yeezus” was revealed, written in Sharpie Marker on red gaffers tape, directly on the CD cover. Click here to see it for yourself. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news […]