“This was also for Reader’s Digest’s ‘How to Crack Your Sugar Addiction.’ The image was made using a pellet gun and sound trigger device Adam has called the ‘Mumford time machine.’ One levitating lollipop was photographed over the set as the base image. For the explosion, lollipops were clamped into place by their stick while, across the studio, Adam set up a pellet gun with sandbags on a rest. Adam would take aim with the lights on, we’d flip the lights off while our assistant, Nick Cabrera, opened the shutter, then Adam would shoot.”
