One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
There Is A Tiny Jon Hamm In Your Phone
(Courtesy of Holo)
In the upcoming movie Marjorie Prime, Jon Hamm will be playing a sexy hologram that will make you contemplate our dark future and pine for our simpler past. But for the moment, please free your mind from that darkness and download HoloHamm, a mildly entertaining thing that will bring a little phone-sized Jon Hamm into your life. It is amusing for about three minutes, but who doesn't need a three-minute escape from real life right about now.
According to a press release from Holo, a new hologram app, the HoloHamm will allow you to "snap a selfie with Jon Hamm or direct your own video with the star." It looks like this:
You can pretend he is Don Draper, or you can make him Jon Hamm: Autumn Boyfriend, if you have a print like this in your apartment, which I do.
Jon forgot our monogrammed Pendleton blanket that day but it's okay because he smelled of roasted squash. (Jen Carlson/LAist)
Enjoy this, one of the brighter points in our pitch black future.
One year ago, Congress voted to defund public media, eliminating a critical $1.7 million from our budget every year going forward. But they couldn’t silence us, and we’re not going anywhere. LAist is now 100% community funded and that means we’re taking our future into our own hands and turning to you to keep local reporting strong.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
You come to LAist because you want independent reporting and trustworthy local information. Our nonprofit newsroom doesn’t answer to shareholders looking to turn a profit. Instead, we answer to you and our communities. We are free to follow facts wherever they lead and to hold power to account without fear or favor. Our only loyalty is to our readers and listeners and our mission: to inform, engage, and strengthen Southern California’s communities.
If this story helped you, please become a monthly member today to help sustain this mission. It just takes 1 minute to donate below.
Senior Vice President News, Editor in Chief
