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Joanne Lam

this one is for fans of: - the colour green - the bear (tv show, not the animal) - slice-of-life storytelling - text links thank you @andy + team for the writing tab. the piece wouldn't be the same without the carousels 💚 read.cv/joannelam/dial…

Dialects of Green
By Joanne Lam
Joanne Lam

finally ready to share this case study (reflection? deconstructed essay? dream team love letter?) for a short doc i wrote and directed a few years ago. the project is still dear to my heart. hope it shows in the writing <3 read.cv/joannelam/apor…

About the Film
By Joanne Lam
Joanne Lam

"in an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them." are.na/blog/here-for-t…

Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
Joanne Lam

solstice to solstice felt like a year unto itself... a lifetime's worth of undoings and relearnings and realizations and tryings in spite of fear. here's to more of that in the new year. may 2024 be kind to you all 🫶

Joanne Lam

"because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really."

Joanne Lam

had an entire conversation with a stranger through google translate today. there's something magical about knowing what's being said, even if awkwardly translated, then interpreting the expression through body language. humans are the best when striving to understand another :)

Joanne Lam

chicago was a balm for the soul 🥲 special thank you to @briansholis @micomonc for their generous recommendations!

Joanne Lam

"full and gone", hong kong, 2014

Joanne Lam

from james baldwin's essay "the creative process"

Joanne Lam

dr. katalin karikó won the nobel prize in medicine today! what an incredible person. beyond well deserved. youtube.com/watch?v=514nzD…

First reactions | Katalin Karikó, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 | Telephone interview
The call from Stockholm woke Katalin Karikó at her home outside Philadelphia. Initially in disbelief, in this interview with Adam Smith, recorded soon after she had learnt of the award of the Nobel Prize for discoveries that accelerated the introduction of vaccines for Covid-19, she recalls her journey from Hungary and some of the setbacks on the path to the mRNA vaccines. "10 years ago I was here in October, because I was kicked out and forced to retire!" Her advice is to not to dwell on the problems: "You have to focus on the things you can change."
Joanne Lam

these lines from a tomas tranströmer poem (poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…) have been occupying my mind lately: so much that i loved, does it have any weight? so many dialects of green.

Joanne Lam

tony bennett: "it's [the] care that creates the longevity"

Joanne Lam

ARTISTS REMAKING MEDICINE is the 2nd book i've ever designed - a huge puzzle to make coherent given the different content formats within. somehow managed to pull through while also leading two client projects. very proud of the work! but soooo exhausted 😂 procedure.press

Procedure Press
Through conversations and commissioned works with architects, musicians, color theorists, writers, illustrators, physicians, painters, and innovators, Artists Remaking Medicine explores how artists are the most powerful collaborators for change in healthcare. Launching September 2023.
Joanne Lam

what's a sound that you'd like to hear again, and why?