Mississippi high school students built a duct tape boat as part of a fund raising effort for threir friend Tyler Youngblood, who is battling leukemia. They launched their duct tape canoe in the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor in order to raise awareness and money. Unfortunately, after they rescue their friend, the boat builders may need […]
The London Olympics are four months away, but gaffers tape has already won a medal. Sara Edworthy, venue coordinator for this years Olympics, spends her days looking for loose door knobs, drooping signs and thousand of other problems that might prevent smooth operations when the games begin. Once the games get started, she will head […]
Florida technical college student Patrick Varnadore rose to the challenge of his classmates by covering his 1986 Chrysler with duct tape. He’s about 60 percent finished with covering the car with orange tape and is working on recreating the look of the car from the Dukes of Hazard television show completely with tape. Varnadore’s feat […]
The success of the most recent Van Halen tour has meant that lots of stories have resurfaced about the best and worst of the band’s journey through the rock touring universe. Some of the most interesting tales involve the times prior to their 2004 reunion tour when Sammy Hagar described bandmate Eddie Van Halen’s shoddy […]
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. […]
Boston police suspect fraternity hazing after finding five shivering students in their underwear, bound with duct tape, in the basement of an Ashford Street house. The students, believed to be members of Boston University’s Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, were covered with mustard, hot sauce and honey. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
The School of Human Ecology at Louisana Tech combined product design and marketing exercises to create duct tape dresses. Unlike the “one off” projects so common around prom season to make prom clothing, teams of Louisiana Tech students were challenged to make a wearable tape garment in only three hours. The design exercise was followed […]