Spanish sculptors Robert Feo and Rosario Hurtado mounted a recent show featuring sculptures made of found objects at the Rice Gallery. The sculptors, representing the design studio El Ultimo Grito, used brightly colored gaffers tape to anchor the sculptures to the gallery floor. Read more and see some images by clicking here.
Charleston, SC police say a man tried to use duct tape to cover his face before robbing a Dollar General store. Employees said that the man, wearing a hoodie used a gun and took over $1000 from the cash register. If the robber had a mustache, he probably doesn’t have one anymore. Click here to […]
Fashion designer J.W. Anderson knows how to to turn up the bling. Gaffers tape bracelets. His most recent runway show featured models whose wrists were adorned with rolls of gaffers tape, all silver lined. Read more about the show by clicking here.
Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov managed to use about the ugliest tape job we’ve ever seen to create some stunning images of snow flakes. Kljatov taped a vintage Russian camera lens to his Canon powershot camera, tied the whole thing together with a stick, and made macro images of snowflakes that are absolutely stunning. Click here […]
Not being old enough to grow their own mustaches didn’t stop students at the Wickwire Academy from taking part in November’s prostrate cancer awareness campaign. The kids made mustaches from duct tape and posed for a photo to help remind men to get involved in the Movemember campaign to remind men to get screened for […]
London design studio GBH used gaffers tape as an inspiration for a new font design. The typeface was created for the Puma sportswear company as part of its “Make Football Anywhere” campaign. Click here to see an example.
Huffington Post blogger Anna Friel tells readers that on a recent trip to Uganda, she used gaffers tape to tape her pants to her boots to keep fire ants from crawling up her legs. You can read more about her adventures if you click here.
Two British researchers were able to get some amazing photos from space by creating their own $500 spacecraft (a balloon) and launching it with a camera and a couple of “crew men” made from Legos. The balloon was able to reach an altitude of 27 km and when it came back to earth the amateur […]
Duct tape is sold in an informal set of grades, to give users some idea of the quality and performance characteristics. The three grades are “basic”, “utility” and “nuclear”, with basic being the least expensive garden variety on home improvement store shelves. Utility grade is the most useful and can be found in most workers […]
Duct tape is useful for lots of things, but it appears that sealing ducts is not one of them. The natural rubber adhesive in duct tape tends to dry out and lose its stickiness over time, and constant changes in humidity and temperature accelerate this process. A flexible adhesive called “mastic” used by HVAC pros […]