Harmon Leon, a San Francisco comic, is currently appearing in his one man show Who Killed Smile Time, as Abraham Lincoln. Leon’s costume includes a beard made of gaffers tape which he wears while delivering Lincoln’s famous speech. You can read more about his show here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s […]
Britian’s Got Talent, the hit tv show, is set to return to English television this week for its 2012 season. Hidden among a long list of fairly useless facts related to the production of this years epidsodes, we found this gem: 221 rolls of gaffers tape were used throughout the tour. Tapenews.com is your source […]
An article in the October 24, 1943 edition of the Chicago Tribune may have the true story of the invention of duct tape. A Navy mom named Vesta Stoudt who was working in a ammunition packing plant in Illinois had the idea for a better product for packaging ammo so that troops could handle it […]
People from around the country, including students from Rutgers and city residents from New Brunswick, NJ are joining together to protest the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Florida. The Rutgers students covered their mouths with duct tape in a silent protest against the shooting death of Martin and the subsequent investigation. You can read more […]
British Newspaper The Guardian recently interviewed well known designers about what they thought were the greatest design creations. Noted English designer James Dyson (Dyson vacuum cleaners) chose the Mini auto, architect Richard Rogers chose a bicycle made by Bompton, and industrial designer Ron Arad’s choice was a lamp created by George Carwardine. Our favorite was the […]
We love The Myth Busters and always look forward to a new season. I’m constantly amazed that these guys are still alive. There is a promo out now for the first show of this season, and they are revisiting new uses one of our favorite products-duct tape. In the March 25 program, the myth busting […]
silver duct tape. Shelby chose the low tech approach in their introduction, making their iconic mechanical dino out of cardboard and covering it with sticky tape to make a approximation of the Transformers cartoon character Grimlock, a T-Rex. You can see Fake Grimlock if you click here. Tapenews.com is your source for “all the news that’s fit […]
An article in last week’s New York Times Magazine describes the search for “total” silence in Alaska and other places around the world. The writer, Davyd Betchkal, describes himself as a “sound catcher” and uses a solar powered recording system to measure the sound level in some of the most remote places on earth. The […]
Jake Snider, a youth pastor in Decatur, IN has devised a heavenly craft for some of his kids. Rev. Snider created a project where teens he works with decorated inexpensive Bibles with duct tape patterns. Snider reports that teen boys in his youth group were quickly engrossed in the project. You can read more about […]
Well maybe not all the way to the moon (apologies to Jackie Gleason), but at least to the edge of outer space. Josh Taylor, an amateur astronomer from Surrey, England has sent a balloon up 118,00 feet with a payload consisting of a couple of cameras, a gps system for location and some hand warmers […]