What is Dispo? David Dobrik s photo app recreates the disposable camera experience and aesthetic
Seems like every week there s some new app you just
have to get.Â
I mean who even
Dispo might is the latest app you ll soon hear that you
have to be on. Here s the TL;DR: Dispo is a photo app from influencer David Dobrik that effectively mimics the disposable camera experience. But it s not exactly like other disposable camera apps out there.Â
If you d like a further breakdown, we ve got it below.Â
What does the Dispo app do?
The basic answer is you use Dispo to take pictures. But the experience basically copies old-school disposable cameras. You point-and-shoot through a distant viewfinder, which features a crude zoom and flash function. Here s a screenshot of the Dispo view of my building s backyard in Brooklyn. Â
The strange nostalgia of Google Street View
Wilmington, DE, where I ve gotten lost down a nostalgia rabbit hole .
Image: Screenshot / Google maps / twitter / @timmarcin
There s a line in the movie
Kicking and Screaming â the 1995, Noah Baumbach directed, postgrad coming-of-age film â where a character half-jokingly tells a friend, I m nostalgic for conversations I had
yesterday.
I love that movie and I love that line. I identify with it way too much. Just.
way too much.
What I m saying is, I m nostalgic by nature, perhaps to a fault. Â
I guess it s not surprising, then, that I was struck by a wave of nostalgia while bopping around Google Street View a while back. But it was