It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted an article on this website.
Mostly because this site hasn’t had that feature in several years. For a while, I broke up my various interests into three different websites: Film, Sports, and Wine. Each of them had its own X account, SEO, etc etc.
Turns out, internet presence is an unforgiving hamster wheel. The more you try and do things “right,” the more it turns into a full-time job. One that generally is neither fulfilling nor lucrative, at least when it comes to building the kind of presence I’m looking for.
A few months ago, I did a deep analysis of everything I was doing in this realm and found out I didn’t like it so much. Nor did I think it was working.
Gone are the sports and wine sites. That content will now be showing up here.
The film site, jackgormanfilm.com, is still up and running. That site will now market my film services, which include film and script notes, production consulting, film editing, and teaching.
I have a few side hustles. jackgormanproductions.com is home to my commercial photography and video work. clevelandbusinesswebsites.com is dedicated to building inexpensive websites for small businesses. Down the line, I’ll be launching clevelandhomephotos.com, a photo and video service for realtors.
But the real rebuilding came right here, on jackgorman.com.
This site will now be the hub of my web presence. Telling my story of transitioning from a two-decade sports career to filmmaking, and everything in between. It’s also now home to curated displays of my work, including my scripts, films, and photography.
Of course, also the relaunched journal section, which you’re reading right now. My sports, wine, and film stuff has been pulled in here. In the next few months, I’m going to launch a series of multimedia essays about stuff I like. I’m hoping to do one of those a month, and they’ll feature a mix of written stuff like this and short 60-second videos. The first one will be about the genius of the television series Taxi, and how its writing staff went on to form the backbone of some of the greatest series of the last 40 years.
If you’re reading this, thanks for hanging with me while I’ve been figuring all of this out. Hope you’ll hear from me more going forward.