One no longer remembers where Mr. Manriquez was born, nor the incident resulting in the partial loss of vision in his right eye (some speak of an unfortunate bar fight with a surly midget (she was tougher than one would guess for having a peg leg); others attribute the retinal injury to a misguided experiment to erase memories using a high powered laser gone horribly wrong. Yet, after stints as a body piercer, semi-professional snowboarder, part-time laser medical experiment guine pig(don’t ask, really), lesser reality tv star and a millionaire several times over (two of these are actually real, guess which ones), Marko decided he was open to a group of hardcore Freegans invitation to show his “Food Art” in a San Diego bowling alley. After that seminal moment, a world of opportunity opened, resulting in internet memes and infamy galore.
Marko is currently a Master’s Candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) where he explores the threshold of the imaginary, frivolous, and spectacular, and yes, he is blind in one eye.