For the long-time Izzy-heads, you may know that this website is not the first website of mine. Yes, eons ago (last year) I had a website made with Weebly. However, it wasn’t updated frequently, and it was confusingly formatted, images with the same name get replaced (which is annoying when most of my images are titled 01.png), and there were too many pages that the attempts to update were a hassle and a half, so it’s retired.

As it is gone, I would like to share some of the good bits from that website. It’ll still be up as a form of archive, but it will no longer be in use.

Everything I made for uni in the first three years of my degree I made sure to upload to my website. This means you can see my embarrassing stuff, which is kinda the point. Pre-uni, I carefully curated my old youtube channel (which doesn’t exist anymore), deleting videos that people could bully me for. Through that, I lost a lot of stuff that I would love to look back upon, and I vowed to upload everything, even if it sucks, just to have it out there and reflect on later.

Anyway, here are the highlights.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/collaboration1.html inksnail improv is a fairly unknown, weird and fairly solitary project of mine, but it was extremely fun to make and expanded and solidified my thoughts on graphic and found scores. In “collaboration” with internet artist Matthew R. F. Balousek, who made the image generating twitter bot Inksnails back in 2018. I selected a few of them as a score, and just went to town on a piano.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/exercises.html exercises was a fun group of exercises, formed from a somewhat infamous assessment within the course. A lot of people didn’t like it, but I did. A lot of game-y sort of principles, and a reference to Grant Howitt. I really haven’t changed. I also made a video which, looking back, isn’t half bad.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/fremantle-biennale.html Ah, my time with the Fremantle Biennale, something that probably changed the trajectory of my career and put me on the path of being a bigger weirdo than I already was. I’m so thankful for my time in that intensive art observing time, and I might as well honour it here.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/ttsg.html The Tiny Text Score Generator! My darling child. The one thing that Weebly has over WordPress is its limitless html compatibility. I will keep trying to find a way to implement the ttsg into this website, but until then, it’s still on my old website, and I love it so.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/dancecollab22.html A collaboration with someone I have never met face to face! Just how I like it. 7 Deadly Sins was a really cool dance project by Maddie Davies Mee, which got turned into a fantastic dance film, and it is available on her private instagram and that’s it. Kinda bums me out, but the music was fun to make.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/to-be-corporeal.html Talkin’ about dance films, here’s one I made two years ago called to be coporeal. And you know what, it’s pretty sick itself, even if it pails in comparison to Maddie’s. I made this for a film lab, and Brianna and Xin killed it. And I killed it. Straight murder this one.

https://izzzyfrench.weebly.com/huh-what.html Huh? What?, a beloved project of many. Love this little guy. This is a full novel about how this recital was made. Back when I couldn’t shut up and keep my word count low. And look at me now! Still not shutting up.

But what about non-uni stuff?? you scream into your laptop, begging for an answer. Well there’s other stuff too! There’s all my music projects, including the normal stuff I did with The Garages (a story for another time), all the stuff I’ve done for the student magazine before becoming sub-editor and loosing the will to write more than I need to, a couple reviews including the best stuff I listened to in 2020 (don’t read it please my music taste sucks so much, oh I was planning to do it every year but that would’ve sucked worse) and an album by Dog Park Records, and some written stuff about being trans and a sea organ in Croatia.

The Weebly website was started when I joined WAAPA in 2020, and now I’m at the end in 2023. It’s been a fun journey, and I’ll keep the old website up as a sign of a time before. Now onto greener and more fraught pastures (aka being unemployed).