ManicDistopia: The Gentleman Skeleton of Venice Beach

ManicDistopia's video game glitch NFTs are anything but weapons of procrastination or distraction. In this digital art you will find the culture.

It took a few times to get ManicDistopia, a digital artist from Venice Beach, to agree to an interview. I think he was busy. I think he’s doing a lot of work these days.

This is a man who was shaped by the fusion of street art, grunge, dirty skater chic and “Latchkey” semi-abandonment of 1990s California.

“I had not thought about my childhood in forever,…