AN ORIGIN STORY

When this started, we were boys.  Literally boys.  Boys with dreams, ideas, and potential.  The world was new and the times changing.  We were bold, creative, irreverent, and cool. We wrote our own rules.  We had reputations.  Our paths — music, art, architecture, social change — had crossed before.  We had each done great things already.  We  had done business together, made records, designed spaces and created events together, shared ideas and projects.  We had been to each other’s weddings (some of them…).

We were each strong, but we could see that we might be stronger together than each of us was by ourselves.  We coalesced our talents, pooled our resources.  John Storyk, Arthur Gorson, and I moved into a brownstone on Irving Place in New York City’s Gramercy Park, and became Landmark Media.  The next three years were meteoric, a rush of promise, of opportunities, and of accomplishments.  When we parted ways to seek other paths, we did so with undying respect and affection.

Later, in Los Angeles, a new alliance — The Mine — that Arthur had established with protean producer and creator Bernard Lucien Nussbaumer, carried forward the same sensibilities that had shaped Landmark.  In its time, The Mine had its own powerful trajectory of accomplishment, and like Landmark, broke new ground as a dynamic and innovative creative force.

In the ensuing years, the four of us rose and fell and rose again, kept faith with each other and, as we made our way in the world, saw our lives and art intersect many times.  We never lost sight of the ethos and the belief in each other that we had forged in our formative days and earlier work.

Now we reunite under the Obelisk — a new venture, a new supergroup — to bring a fresh set of visions to fruition.