Dutch artist Johan Jijpma has created a time lapse animated film showing rolls of tape unfurling. The piece is called “Tape Generations” and can be viewed by clicking here. Jijpma apparently spent six months completing the project. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit to stick”. Send us your interesting tape news […]
While searching for the latest news on tape, we came across this article about a subject titled “Ductaigami”. This was a new word to us, but it turns out that the formal term for making artistic and useful items from duct tape has been around for a while. A quick search of Amazon turns up […]
Great stop action film from Duck brand duct tape Click here to view 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.
Lovely ode to duct tape from Louisiana humorist Chuck Boutwell. Click here to read his essay in Houma Today. 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.
WACH (the Winfield Arts & Humanities Council) has elevated learning how to make things with duct tape to class status. One of their summer offerings is a duct tape class for children, where the kids learn to use duct tape to make useful and wearable items. WACH even calls the kids “students”. Here’s the story […]
Eric Klein, a Hoboken, NJ artist, creates art with patterns and shpaes by covering large surfaces with duct tape. You can see some of his work by clicking here. 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.
Owen Barrington, a lead dancer in the Riverdance company and a featured performer in the PBS special, Beyond Celtic, literally dances so hard his shoes disintegrate. Owen’s mother, Donna, provided these pictures (click here) of how Owen has to rebuild his shoes with gaffers tape in order to get through his rigorous performance schedule. Tapenews.com […]
We told you about Duck Brand gaffers tape scholarship contest a few weeks ago in a posting on one of our other blogs. This contest offered scholarships to high school students who designed prom wear from duct tape. Duck Brand duct tape has announced the winners of its “Stuck At The Prom” scholarship contest. Click […]
These are definitely worth sharing. The online version of the British paper The Daily Mail posted these photos of sculptures made from clear carton sealing tape. Look at the pictures and then give it a try. You can get the carton sealing tape by clicking here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
Amy Winter, a librarian in Mentor, OH, is running a summer activities program where she shows kids how to use duct tape to make craft items. Using duct tape to make handy items like wallets and book covers is not really new, but the name of Ms. Winter’s program certainly is. She calls it “Ductivities”. […]