Swimming Pools

What the hell is going on in these counties, these few counties that I personally call home that have the finest coastlines in the country and the least distance to travel from major urban area to the shore. 

Why do we need all these swimming pools? 

Surely it hasn't escaped anyone's attention that Plymouth has nearly as many superfluous pools as it does coffee franchises. Plymouth that in recent years invested millions of pounds into the lido on its own sea front and more recently still had finished building a 50 million pound yellow box with another pool in it and again has pledged renovation to the facility at Plymouth Pavilions, and now Tavistock is planning to build another.

Is it reasonable to assume that all of these facilities are a massive drain on our electrical grid not to mention the asset those monies would make to our jeopardized public services. It seems odd seeing as we are about to run short on power with residences and existing businesses already starved for capitol due partly to the issue of cost/ supply x demand of said power. 

When they say in the not too distant future "well we had to build all these new nuclear power stations so we could heat the pools and charge you to use". 

I'm all for tolerance as a general state of existence but this is out of control ........ and it has got to be stopped ..

Stay Tuned.....

This Summer we will be hosting an unusual exhibition .to say the least!keep your eyes open for.

                                       1001 Arts by Valerio!

This exhibition will showcase the scale of diversity within my work and with the rare opportunity to view some of my previous sketch books alongside current works in progress should offer a rare glimpse into the behind the scenes aspect of my works, Including showcase models and illustrations for my own ' Green Star House ' and ' Mile Wide City ' Architectural concepts, and open discussions for my upcoming legaslative disruptions with proposals for local , regional , national , regeneration, education and training initiatives!! 

 of course as well as actually showing 1001 paintings illustrations and designs from across the entirety of my portfolio ! well keep you posted and hope to see you soon !  

Better the Devil you know....

What on Earth happened to good old common sense in this country ?
 I for one cannot see the logic behind everyones presently frantic sense of unbridled 'ambition'at the moment!
There are of course some assurances that this has been allot of fun for allot of people, but it has also created allot of misery for allot people; but I think that the overall consensus for decades now has been, that along current lines of predicted trajectory this is an unsustainable system!

 Why is it we are tolerating 'leaders' ( that is individuals and parties of ill repute and proven uselessness) that continue to press forward with the illusion of improving this now outdated notion of progress....what about maintenance?

It is maddening to me that even on a local level no consideration seems to being given to sensible priority?

 There is a place on the fringes of Dartmoor national park ( actually it was one of the places used as a base for Spielbergs ' War Horse ' ) where several years ago a beautiful bespoke ...albeit modern arts facility was erected as a new build at the cost of several million pounds, a wonderful addition to the cultural eminence of such a beautiful place ....already it has closed down ' as a victim of the recession'.
 Yet within plymouth city centre not 10 miles away . Because of the ridiculousness of this years distractions from more important social concerns ( additional point of note beyond the regional interest im writing about now ) They have just finished a 50 million pound leisure facility they have housed in a big yellow box next to those mangled spiders legs of a football stadium.
In Millendreath just along the coast from Looe there is a plan to spend 50 million on a brand new holiday home scheme and just on the fringe of the same town hundereds of new affordable homes have popped up over the surrounding hills. In Plymouth the scale of new housing is astounding almost feverishly covering every open piece of green or undeveloped land is turned into social experiments to gauge the minimum requirements for human habitation ( no concern going to optimum). Almost culminating in the commitment to build plymouths own little homage to londons ' Shard'  at the former site of the ' Occupy ' plymouths camp!!

 In tavistock they are now going to make The Wharf ( again a purpose renovated facility at high expense only several years ago) Into the focus for yet additional capitol, to encourage it to become a leading arts and music facility!

 Here at the Valerio Institute of Alternative Learning  we have accomplished the very same thing as they have set out to ; only we have managed it in one year with no funding , little money, and no staff!

There is a plan in progress at the moment to build homes, brand new homes with cheap labour and cheaper materials so that the ignorant might lay claim to being a part of that estate agents lie coined from the days of thatcher .....the property ladder!
 Only so city to city the socially / financially elite can house themselves in great big glass and steel observation decks, where with detachment and disinterest, they can watch humanity suffer ... not simply from the human condition that plagues all souls ...but from an imposed hierarchy breeding constant contempt and even disgust for our fellow sufferer!

 As it is there are thousands of square feet of unused , unaffordable , ill repaired commercial and residential properties all across the city and surrounding regions.
  Our agriculture is under threat with farms and small holdings foreclosing due to the imposed demands set out by those distant untraceable cowards at the end of the 24 hour helplines and customer support.
 Homes being repossessed, Industry closing , Infa-structure being sold off to commercial concern!
 In a time when our economy is not set to improve for some time due to the crimes of peers that have been tolerated for too long . We have an entire generation of thirty something year olds living at home with their parents or hiding from their social responsibilities in a pointless education system or worse off travelling a rudderless uncommitted swathe of youth just mooching about standing on the fringe of humanities latest destruction before shuffling off to discuss how thoroughly unimpressed they were by it!
 Here at home Money continues to be stripped from Education, National health care , Law and Order , and home defence!

 How about we take just ten million from your next intended waste of money and life you will insist on hanging in the middle of my favourite view. And you start a training initiative, A national, regional, local, government set initiative to train individuals that are being thoroughly screwed by this current dis-functioning poor performance .
 You give those individuals ...all of the empty commercial,  residential , agricultural space on a contractual rent / rates free arrangement for a set time, to act as trainee maintenance and repair contractors. Then with a structured educational programme offer them basic progress courses in practicalities! construction , manufacture , raw industry , and yes even agriculture!

 There ive just solved for free what no administrator or banker could despite all there resources and entitlement to holiday!

Thats the way you would solve the housing crisis ....vacant property and prosperity, region to region, the employment crisis not to mention the sense of self satisfactions that will dispel depressions, reduce recessions and get a generation that needs it some much needed exercise, and ideally begin to spark in them a sense of interest , and pride for their region and eventually their nation!

Want to no more, well ill not give it away for free! lets get on with this for a bit build up a bit of national wealth and then you might be ready for my idea!

The Valerio Institute for Alternative learning is now open to the public and fellow artisans Every Saturday and Sunday!
 Drop by and say hello! because human interaction is key to the initiation of  a required change!
                        CREATE AND COLLABORATE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

Ho Hum!

Well considering that the international knock on effect is well under way and now even China's economy is suffering a level of uncertainty in terms of its longevity.
 Im sure that there must be some like-minded realists out there that have some grasp of the remarkably circuitous nature of international relationships, and the more interwoven, the greater the scope of accomplishments through positive human interactions, and of course the scale of un-settlement  from a larger silent majority - and access to new kinds of urban unrest ; and indeed as urbanisation in its current format is nothing more than a remaining symptom from the now well outdated industrialist model that has now expanded across the international community with a rife degree of saturation.
 Here in the ' UK' weve approximately X space and give or take 70 million basic population ; In America by comparison theyve Y space and Z population, australia and canada again comparitivly large in acres for the scale of population.
 So of the so called 'developed' nations we are in trouble aren't we ?
So What to do ?
Are we going to build tiny pigeon holes in big filing cabinets for humanity in this country as they do in japan?
 Or even the rest of the world over ; all of whom are now looking to explore new ways of containing its humanity ....with japan being the first advertised element to entertain a necessarily radical proposition ( see previous article concerning 'Mile Wide City' ).( only because our government has been unwilling to acknowledge my work concerning the subject!). And all of this because the outdated model has become proven to be both undesirable and unsuitable ......and consequently imminently unprofitable!
 Yet we here are still attempting to emulate an idea that was outdated over a hundred years ago but aggressively embraced and industrialised for the production of the american sky lines, and has been kept in spite of its clear inability to constructively ( excuse the pun). Integrate with its natural environment .... in any natural environment ..... the whole world over!
For my generation the broken misshapen white high rise teeth weve installed across the worlds sea fronts, a hideous grimace marking the the senile humour of what paradise used to look like , and how long ago before its individualism and identity were stripped. for the sake of the fat unimpressable tourist industry and the useless comforts it insists and subsists upon.when it was a place worth seeing !!
 Its a shame that it never occurs to them as they stand on the balconies of whatever apartment on whatever floor in whatever beige habitat, with its air conditioning, pay per view movies. Staring out at the big blue thing that used to have fish in it .....now covered in shoals of white leisure vessels. the inhabitants of which all dry humping their own illusions of the picturesque paradise they saw in the travel brochures back home. From the road to the airport and all the industry and telecom pylons, the plastic sandal factories and the ice cream retail space, the water-parks and the cocktails, and all of those disillusioned fools all thinking that the thing they are running from wont get them in the end!
 All Gnawing away at the beautiful simplicity  we had originally come to embrace.
 Avoiding the hideously grim meat hook realities, of an existence we cannot abide in an environment we have come to loathe.
Suffer a little more for the 'Heaven' it affords us!
 Another year and i can once again afford to borrow that piece of another corporations real estate and for a high price i can sit and enjoy the view from the edge of our perpetual destructionand be able to distract ourselves from the fact that ..what we want....or at least seem to .....is costing us all so very much!!    

You know....Itd had never occurred to me that my organization might be a charity!

well in these modern times of precedent for every kind of dispute and even a precedent for every kind of extenuation causing exemption to said precedent .........lunacy sheer lunacy!!
 but i suppose its a sign of the times .....we began our little experiment at well lets say interval stages the latest instalment of which has been this ' expansion '  the incorporation of The Valerio Institute for Alternative Learning. which hasnt been made any easier due to the nonsense spilling from central government and the tumult it has caused all down the ranks!
 It seems that an individual such as my self .....a humanitarian and a philanthropist attempting to work for the sake of the passion of the thing and not the profit of it with vested interests in inproving environment through positive influence attempting to forge sensible litigations that would enable the economic and social developments of this my home land and enact through the appropriate and existing channels inspite of how absurd it would naturally seem to me , a means of training programmes, housing programmes and regional and national development and regeneration initiatives.
  So after a taught few months of consistent and inappropriate threats and mishandling from our local authorities it seems i may actually be able to continue this lifes work ....which is naturally quite important to me, and really the scale of multi faceted contemporary concerns addressed  aught to be the focal point of so many.

 maybe even those who are paid regardless of performance or competence and have it in their job descriptions to be handling this stuff ....in fact lets get all those bastards off of facebook off of holiday and back from lunch so i can have a day off!!