{"id":3847,"date":"2006-07-11T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T05:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/11\/the-mm-army\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:33:05","slug":"the-mm-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/11\/the-mm-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The M&#038;M Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6395,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.candyusa.org\\\/Candy\\\/candycorn.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190926071011\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.candyusa.org\\\/Candy\\\/candycorn.asp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.candyusa.org\\\/Candy\\\/candycorn.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 19:49:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 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two best forms of candy in the world (or, at least, in <em>my<\/em> world) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.candyusa.org\/Candy\/candycorn.asp\" title=\"Candy USA: Candy Corn\">candy corn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mms.com\/\" title=\"M&amp;M's.com\">M&amp;Ms<\/a>. Candy Corn is more often becoming available year-round, with the addition of various holiday themes other than Halloween (Reindeer Corn for Christmas, Cupid Corn for Valentine&#8217;s Day, and Bunny Corn for Easter), but they&#8217;re still primarily a holiday treat, lacking the year-round goodness of M&amp;Ms.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after we started dating, Prairie picked up on my M&amp;Ms fixation, and got me a silly little M&amp;Ms character. Since then, we&#8217;ve gotten into the habit of keeping an eye out for cute M&amp;M goodies, from the seasonal figures to plush toys to&#8230;well, whatever looks fun. I&#8217;ve been meaning to document the growing collection for some time now, and finally got around to it today, after spending a few minutes and fifty cents assembling a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/187687133\/\" title=\"Flickr: DIY Lightbox\">DIY lightbox<\/a> (inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/strobist.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html\" title=\"Strobist: How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio\">this post on Strobist<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Click on this lil&#8217; guy to see the M&amp;M Army as it stands to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/sets\/72157594196274035\/\" title=\"Flickr: The M&amp;M Army\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/49\/187716605_f8e1977d4d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Green Christmas\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really impressed with how well the lightbox setup works. It&#8217;s incredibly simple: just a cardboard box with three sides cut out and covered with white tissue paper. Slip posterboard into the box for a backdrop, set a flash unit (or lamps of some sort) outside the sides of the box, and fire away. Simple, effective &#8212; and at $0.50 for the posterboard, with the rest of the supplies scrounged from around the house, <em>much<\/em> more cost effective than a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ws%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=B000B7C3GG%2526tag=ws%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000B7C3GG%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"'American Recorder - Photo Studio In A Box' (American Recorder)\">pre-assembled $100 kit<\/a> that does the same thing!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DK.M.F.D.M.%2526songTerm=Rules%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Rules' on the iTMS\">Rules<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DK.M.F.D.M.%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'K.M.F.D.M.' on the iTMS\">K.M.F.D.M.<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DK.M.F.D.M.%2526albumTerm=XTORT%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'XTORT' on the iTMS\">XTORT<\/a> <\/em> (1996, 4:07).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to document my growing M-and-M&#8217;s figurine collection for some time now, and finally got around to it today, after spending a few minutes and fifty cents assembling a DIY lightbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}