Same Spot: Then & Now

In 1931 someone stood on a corner and took a photograph. Today a museum can show you that corner again, from the same step, with the same framing. Same Spot gives you the museum’s method for your own life. How it works, in three steps. 1. Shoot a frame. The app remembers where you stood, which way you faced, how you tilted the phone, the zoom, the time and where the sun was. 2. Come back. From far away, an arrow and a distance. Up close, the original appears as a ghost in the viewfinder. Move until the edges meet, and a crosshair snaps into a square. Let the app fire the shutter, or do it yourself. 3. Watch it change. Slide between frames, wipe, blend, flip through, or render a timelapse with dates. Every frame is warped onto the first so the series stays steady even when your feet were not. Things people use it for: the view from a window they know they will leave. A renovation, wall…