The CultCast
This week: someone tried to burn down the Mrs. Doubtfire house—time for a drive-by fruiting; prepare thy wrists, the  Watch cometh in March; details on a radically new Macbook Air; and… as promised!  With over 430,000 Instagram followers, @withhearts joins us to talk mobile photography, his favorite photo apps and gear, and his tips for capturing beautiful images with your favorite iDevice.
 
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And thanks to Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com for all the great music you hear in today's show.
 
 
The sexy dudes on this episode
 
Erfon “the-perfect-six-pack-abs” Elijah
 
Cory Staudacher aka @withhearts
 
Buster/Alex/Leander are drunk in Las Vegas.  They’ll prob. be back next week.
 
 
This week’s links
 
Intro - Don’t you f#cking call it an iWatch! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cux9T9wvERs&spfreload=10
 
Someone tried to set the Mrs. Doubtfire house on fire!
 
Apple transforms retail stores into art galleries for ‘Start Something New’ campaign
Apple’s next major Mac revealed: the radically new 12-inch MacBook Air
 
Cory uses this stuff
 
An iPhone 6 Plus and a Canon 5D Mark III
 
Joby Gorilla Pod
 
Vsco Cam (he likes the M5, P5, and A5 presets)
 
Manual Custom Exposure Camera give you fine-tuned control
 
Filterstorm to remove stuff from your photos… like guys flashing their nipples
 
Average Camera Pro combines multiple pictures into one.  Good at giving water that “glass look"
 
Cortex Cam works well for taking low-light photographs
 
 
Direct download: CultCast_161_-_2015__SPACE_ELEVATORS.mp3
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This week, on our maiden episode of 2015: The story of an iOS developer who gave a gift so generous, it went totally viral; Discovering new apps and podcasts on iTunes is an awful experience, but we know how to fix it; plus, how Steve Jobs contributions helped build the new Disney...
 
And stay tuned for an all-new CultCast 2nd Hour!  Pro photographer David Hobby shares his favorite gear for travel pics, his tips and tactics for taking great travel photos, plus his street photography advice will help you not get punched...
 
Thanks to lynda.com for supporting this episode. Learn to run your business better, become a photoshop ninja, learn how to create music with your iPad, and so much more.  lynda now has over 4500 courses for you to choose from, and now they’re offering our listeners a 10 day free trial.  Learn all you want for free for 10 days, head on over to lynda.com/cultcast
 
We also want to give Kevin MacLeod at incompetech.com a huge thanks for all the great music you hear in today's show.
 
This week’s links
 
Erfon on twitter/instagram - @erfon
 
Leander on twitter/instagram - @lkahney
 
Buster on twitter/instagram - @bst3r
 
This week's intro
 
iOS dev pays off his parents’ mortgage for Christmas
 
iPhone 6 drives App Store to new download record
 
Apple Pay comes to gas pumps in 2015
 
How Jobs helped shape the new Disney
 
2nd Hour Links
 
David Hobby on twitter: 
 
Learn how to light on his Strobist site: 
 
His favorite travel camera is the Fuji X100S:  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HK8ZBE0
 
The Fuji X100T is the newer version of the X100S: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NF6ZGY6
 
David loves the book The Passionate Photographer: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321719891
 
David’s lynda catalog of courses (please use lynda.com/cultcast to sign up):
Direct download: CultCast_160_Grandpa_Clown.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:18pm PDT