Properly speaking it is duck tape, not duct tape. So called from the material used to make it as early as 1900: grade 12 duck, plain woven cotton fabric, very easy to get hold of, was what the backing material was. Later and for a short time it was used to repair piping, hence the confusion about the name. Duck Tape is now a trademarked item, like Elephant Tape…
Duck tape does have the advantage of being possible to say in a hurry.
Gaffer tape (usually black, in my life) comes off easily; duck tape (usually grey ditto) doesn’t. This may influence your choice…
In the Nice Modern Art Gallery there was fixed to a wall (& still is, I saw it last year) a large ‘American’ car, rusted and squahed in height so it’s almost 2D.
We saw it maybe 18 months after the ‘Queen of all our hearts’ hadn’t worn a seat belt in Paris.
#2 son, aged about 4 or 5 bellowed “Daaad. Is this the car that Diana crashed in ??”
Arguable. Duck Tape is the brand name of a subset of the substance (of the aeroplane that’s going to win the war).
My earworms are multiplying in a disturbing fashion; please desist from casual bisection of same when gardening.
They were on to a hiding to nothing, of course, with an Art Show, on radio.
I could and probably will go on about that at a less cross-eyed hour of the night.
Just temporarily reactivating this thread for an update on the real(ish) world project I’ve been involved in. All this time to do what Russ achieved in about a month. Obviously we’re not trying hard enough…
This is by way of a “trailer” - the exhibition proper opens at the Kerlin Gallery at the end of the month and will also tour, including (I think) London & Colchester.
…from the blurb: “Navigating the gallery space invokes a feeling of containment, like being inside the mind of someone experiencing a dilapidated sense of time and place, or multiple moments at once.”
Sounds like it might have been written using the StympletonTrypewryter? (…see also tonight’s (Wednesday) scrapings!
OK, the review is a bit Pseud’s Corner, but the piece is in part inspired by Jaki’s own experiences of dealing with a family member’s dementia, so it’s fairly apposite.
Well, a year later and it’s finally happening! The planned live performance, alas, had to be shelved—for obvious reasons—but the exhibition has just opened at the Frith Street Gallery, with a new companion piece running simultaneously at the Bower:
Good-oh, joe.
Rapture modified slightly since no chance at present of tootling up to town and having wiv me favourite poultry-herding flautist…
But GOOD-OH! Wishing the exhibition bon succès again.
Oh, and The Bower is only slightly down the road, really…
G ;- )
wiv me favourite poultry-herding flautist…
will happen at some stage! The exhibition is well worth seeing, though - Jaki’s work is wonderful.