In an incident that clearly has nothing to do with making prom dresses from duct tape, a Seattle woman was arrested after a bizarre incident in a local bar. The bartender called police after a woman began removing her clothes and covering herself with pink duct tape. After a chase ensued, at least one officer […]
In what seems like a total waste of time, ITV.com reports that attempts to manage the hordes of media camped out waiting for the birth of the royal British baby include lining out lanes on the street with gaffers tape to allot space for photographers. The only way this might work is if the photographers […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Participants in this year’s Boston Marathon have taken to wearing their “finisher” medals adorned with a piece of black electrical tape across the medal as a way to commemorate those who were killed or injured in the bombing at the finish line. Runner’s World magazine is featuring a picture of the medal on it’s most […]
Apparently, it’s duct tape that holds the video game community together. There were more than a couple of surprises in this video.