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 […]
My house runneth over with remote controls. Everything from the home entertainment center to the ceiling fans now have remotes, and every time I turn around, it seems that there is another one. Lifehacker’s Mcgyver Challenge, a contest for do it yourselfers, recently featured an entry that was a remote control holster fashioned from duct […]
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 […]
Last weekends’ Duct Tape Festival in Avon, OH, was “all things duct tape” to a crowd of over 40,000. Parades, a fun run, craft shows and a fashion show were all part of the activities in the tenth anniversary celebration of this iconic product. Click here to see some great pictures and to read more […]
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.
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, […]