A Decade of Growth
10 years ago, 21-year old me launched this website with the intent to have this be used as a tool for first impressions, business inquiries and chronicle my love life in art by keeping you updated on my endeavors as a young auditioning actor.
I also promised that you couldn’t expect any ‘gritty behind-the-scenes stories’ or ‘meticulous blogging’ and gave you a serious lay down (I imagine a slight grin, frown on the face as I wrote this) on how I took my integrity as an actor oh so seriously.
Of course, it’s hard to keep a promise you make as a 21-year old. Short news posts sporadically started to evolve into bigger ‘blogs’ including servings of unsolicited vulnerabilities. While I never actually checked specific data on visitor numbers; as time progressed it became increasingly clear to me that I wasn’t continuing to write these news updates for you. In fact, I liked taking the time for myself to look back every now and then, assess my progress as a freelancer and know that whatever I may have learned I can share with the world to consolidate my thinking.
Moving forward, I see great value in not disrupting this chain of journaling. If not just to practice writing in English then just to have a moment of reflection in another 10 years time to think: ‘Okay, good, I haven’t sat still.’ Whether the movement in question will have taken away those fears of succumbing to inertia, we’ll have to see.
Over the last decade my professional life has certainly taken a few profound twists and turns. It’s led me to admitting to myself repeatedly that I’ve been nurturing a growing interest in areas outside of acting. As you browse this newly updated website, you’ll find more information about this in its nooks and crannies. I advise you to search thoroughly. Just don’t break anything.
Two more things I’d like to add to this news post. Firstly, I started this year having changed my last name on all socials and professional vehicles from ‘deYoung’ to ‘de Jong’ which, coincidentally, happens to be the name given to me by birth. When I started out, anglifying my stage name made a lot of sense, nowadays I just care about making my life a little less confusing if at all possible. If you need any help on pronunciation, don’t worry, they sound exactly the same.
Lastly – I’m looking forward to cultivating a relationship with you this time round. If you’re reading this, chances are you have jumped headfirst into one of the online pushes I made within my networks to announce this personal transformation, or you found me because somewhere, somehow you deemed it wise to get to know a little more about me and you decided to do some unapologetic digging. Whatever your reason may be the fact that you’re here and you’re still reading this means you are probably the exact audience I may have tried to target.
Knowing this, I hope you don’t hesitate to reach out if you are interested to work together in whatever capacity you deem fit.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the next decade may hold. For me, for you, for all of us. I have a feeling it’s not gonna be much of the same.
G.
A Decade of Growth
10 years ago, 21-year old me launched this website with the intent to have this be used as a tool for first impressions, business inquiries and chronicle my love life in art by keeping you updated on my endeavors as a young auditioning actor.
I also promised that you couldn’t expect any ‘gritty behind-the-scenes stories’ or ‘meticulous blogging’ and gave you a serious lay down (I imagine a slight grin, frown on the face as I wrote this) on how I took my integrity as an actor oh so seriously.
Of course, it’s hard to keep a promise you make as a 21-year old. Short news posts sporadically started to evolve into bigger ‘blogs’ including servings of unsolicited vulnerabilities. While I never actually checked specific data on visitor numbers; as time progressed it became increasingly clear to me that I wasn’t continuing to write these news updates for you. In fact, I liked taking the time for myself to look back every now and then, assess my progress as a freelancer and know that whatever I may have learned I can share with the world to consolidate my thinking.
Moving forward, I see great value in not disrupting this chain of journaling. If not just to practice writing in English then just to have a moment of reflection in another 10 years time to think: ‘Okay, good, I haven’t sat still.’ Whether the movement in question will have taken away those fears of succumbing to inertia, we’ll have to see.
Over the last decade my professional life has certainly taken a few profound twists and turns. It’s led me to admitting to myself repeatedly that I’ve been nurturing a growing interest in areas outside of acting. As you browse this newly updated website, you’ll find more information about this in its nooks and crannies. I advise you to search thoroughly. Just don’t break anything.
Two more things I’d like to add to this news post. Firstly, I started this year having changed my last name on all socials and professional vehicles from ‘deYoung’ to ‘de Jong’ which, coincidentally, happens to be the name given to me by birth. When I started out, anglifying my stage name made a lot of sense, nowadays I just care about making my life a little less confusing if at all possible. If you need any help on pronunciation, don’t worry, they sound exactly the same.
Lastly – I’m looking forward to cultivating a relationship with you this time round. If you’re reading this, chances are you have jumped headfirst into one of the online pushes I made within my networks to announce this personal transformation, or you found me because somewhere, somehow you deemed it wise to get to know a little more about me and you decided to do some unapologetic digging. Whatever your reason may be the fact that you’re here and you’re still reading this means you are probably the exact audience I may have tried to target.
Knowing this, I hope you don’t hesitate to reach out if you are interested to work together in whatever capacity you deem fit.
I’m looking forward to seeing what the next decade may hold. For me, for you, for all of us. I have a feeling it’s not gonna be much of the same.
G.