This is an incomplete list of stories published and unpublished. Others, hidden in boxes, transformed into ashes, or otherwise forgotten may be added when they are found.
This site is a creative and professional portfolio for Hamish Low. It is a work in progress as a lot of material has yet to be added. Constructive criticism and/or feedback is always appreciated. Feel free to contact me. Unless noted otherwise all material remains copyright of the author.
welcome
Thu, 10/16/2008 - 17:47 — hamishFinally this site is online.
The Guardian recently gave me 8/10 for employability so hopefully soon I'll have some meaningful, interesting, challenging work rather than a slow death in front of a computer screen, where I can work with information, ideas and more importantly people, rather than little pieces of code. However now I have have the skills, it would be a pity not to use them.
Hijiyama Project
Audio production, software, songwriting and arranging can be a massive learning curve. Hijiyama Project represents my first attempts. All tracks were recorded in Hiroshima City 2002-2004.
These tracks were released commercially through the Birmingham-based CCT Records and also under a Creative Commons license. These tracks are also available for free download via Soundlift.
Release under the CC license also lead to them being used on a number of documentaries
The BBS Documentary and "So you want to be a Crime Scene Cleaner?" some Californian cable show that I can't seem to find a link for. A guy named Warren in Tasmania also made a video for As the World is Warming
I received an encouraging royalty cheque from the digital downloads for these tracks amounting to about a month's supply of Chu-Hi.
FICTION
This story was written for a collaborative book project Interwoven Stories: The Fabric of Community published by the Earth Charter Youth Initiative and UPEACE.
The brief for this project was "Respect and Care for the Community of Life". The rest of the book can be read online.
I guess I write to make sense of life and this strange and beautiful world in which we live. This story captures three years in the alternate reality of Japan.
"The Art of Sleeping" was published in the White Fungus Volume VII in December 2006.
White Fungus is New Zealand's premier experimental arts magazine.
Ideally I wanted to have this published in a newspaper, but for reasons which will become obvious, no newspaper agreed to publish it. It was kindly published by the Scoop as a Guest Opinion. Half of the predictions in the story have already come true.
This story was written a long time ago, Auckland City at dawn of the millenium. Excellent illustrations thanks to Alan Drummond. Metro sent me an appreciative rejection letter after not considering it suitable for their publication. It was a nice gesture. The title and part of the story was inspired by the mural at the corner of K and Ponsonby.
PHOTOGRAPHY
WEBDESIGN
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Webdesign is a black hole for time which could be much better utilised otherwise, and so I hope, perhaps with the exception of a site I may build from time to time, perhaps for you, that I'm largely through with this pedantic and infuriating pastime. Here is a selection of other sites I've constructed, all of them powered by Drupal - an open-source content management system.
Aotearoa Lawyers for Peace
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
NON-FICTION
Oversight of the Intelligence and Security Agencies in the United Kingdom and Aotearoa-New Zealand
Oversight of the intelligence and security agencies in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand is inadequate. This thesis identifies criteria for a standard of 'best practice' in democratic intelligence oversight which can maximise both democratic accountability at the same time as insuring the operationally sensitive secrecy which intelligence work requires. Improved oversight will be beneficial to the work of the Agencies, will increase the legitimacy of their work and also has important implications for the work of journalists and the public debate on matters of security. These questions are situated within a broader debate on power, democracy, information, governance and security in the early 21st century.
This thesis was submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Media, Conflict and Peace Studies at the U.N-mandated University for Peace in San José, COSTA RICA.
MUSIC
sound
After a long hiatus, I have finally started making sound again.
Here is a sketch for a soon to be completed longer track >>
current listening