lets talk money

Just the other day I put out a public statement online, expressing my feelings about Plymouth and to be specific its current management systems !! my open suggestion for the management organizations ( Plymouth City Council ) to get in touch to discuss a viable consultancy … or simply admit their gargantuan successive and compounding failings and disband !! 

the response was an article in the herald ..on the front page ! I just happened to notice ( because I certainly don't buy the publication ) that Plymouth city council were having a bit of a whinge about funding cuts killing them … or some other laughable nonsense !! and old tudor was attempting to give himself a little slap on the back for the fact that out of an 8billion deficit … they had managed to make up about 500million from council tax and a few more quid out of their own ' entrepreneurial endeavours ' ha ha ha ha … like the mall , no doubt … and that student housing architectural masterpiece .. and what the fuck is with that big black and white tin box they are building over the old bus station ??….. jeeez !!! are you fucking retarded ??? 

and does a public organization engaging in ' entrepreneurial endeavours '' … doesn't that stink of back handers ??? or is it just me ? 

so anyway Plymouth city council have got no money … ha ha just like the rest of us !!( decade of credit crunches / recessions / tories / referendums and brexits ) yet they keep kicking out these outlandish notions of a millbay transformation … a drakes island resort investment !and I read the other day … an urban forest !! ….. these people are fucking retarded ?? …don't get me wrong, I often walk across this whole city and it is never a pleasure … the odd disjointed poorly maintained greenspace breaks up the heavily polluted and hideously grey monotony … so more green spaces is absolutely necessary !!! …. but how can even begin to justify stuffing an artificial woodland way out there in marsh fucking mills ??? 

the estate agent generation has enabled the percentages that can be made on projects like this … the driver behind the project itself !! the age of the charlatan indeed !! 

so I was passing  toys r us the other day … or the former toys r us and what you have there is a terrible shame !!! 

here you have a huge and substantially structural multi use space …. and you are signing it over to charity shop furniture stores ??? unbelievable !! 

Plymouth has too few iconic buildings, just a smattering of pre war edifices remain of this historic naval city … but I for one think that what has been cobbled together out of a complete mish mash of stylings, has now its own kind of familiar charm , that although grotesque it its state of urban decay ….does have a kind of potential !

the post war 1950's 1960's prefab architecture that was initially put up as a kind of quick fix after everything was levelled in the forties, although it is exceptionally tired these days it does maintain an appealing charm , there are echoes of interwoven architectural styles under the heavily modifies shop frontages , and the rear access / fire access to the properties  are really a very charming , and albeit run down could easily be refurbished to offer a council led initiative to offer housing / vocational improvements within the societal fabric of the city itself 

the council love a big project ...with millions of pounds worth of allocable funding ! so that salaries can be assigned to utterly useless assholes and percentages can be ' earned ' by greedy estate agents!! its a failure of a paradigm !! and its quite incredible to me that its been allowed to go on so long ?!

Plymouth is a city of around a quarter of a million people ! and really the city itself is made up of several smaller cities and townships , all of which kind of homogenize into this single grey sprawling thing ! there is the naval bases in the west of the city the huge hospital complex in the north of the city the university and academic faculties in the centre and a few interim administrations in between! so its not a mean feat to run a consecutive and implementable ' plan ' …

but seeing as everyone on a salary these days  looks to me like an utter incompetent ! I thought I would kick this out …. as a simple single notion that took a bus ride to formulate …   

the basic structure that stands almost derelict !! has fantastic potential … not only does it represent an architectural example of the faux commercialization of the 1980's - of Reagan and thatchers fiasco … that pretty much led us to where we are now !

I think that it would be a simple drive, a very cost effective drive … to turn the entire property into a kind of urban farm and botanical garden ( and in light of Brexit you probably should have done it when I first attempted to build a prototype for a similar notion out in belliver industrial estate back in 2011 )… the south and east facing glazed facades of the building are immediately obvious , its visual effect in the evening could be spectacular  and given the veritable spatial and economic successes of examples now seen the world over of ' re ruralisation ' initiatives … the scope of such a project really shouldn't be too hard to see !! encouraged by your pitiful provision of allotment spaces throughout the city and the whole ' grow for victory ' that every Churchillian brexiteer seems to be chanting about at this stage !  

here it sits in its current rate …. you are selling all day parking for a fiver ! most of which remain empty … it has become a blight .. like the whole rest of union street ( and indeed much of the rest of the city you claim to manage )!! this used to be a thriving central hub of access and commerce !! WTF ??!! 

anyway 

how hard do you think it will be for a cross party collaboration into a ' P.O . Box ' ( Plymouths orangery Box ) a community backed educational / social housing / community farm and arts facility would be ?? 

could the universities botanical faculty and the eden projects community engagement platform …. coupled with the duchy college run inner city programmes ?? would that be that hard ?? this would not only offer additional cross syllabus resources … but a crucial carbon offset in an area of town where air quality is bloody horrible …. 

an exceptionally low cost social housing and management system could be implemented for the many people in the city facing ever increasing rents and ever diminishing services and rights 

you have just blown millions of pounds on refurbishing your box … offering assurances of a pitiful handful of vocational and training places !! its utterly pathetic !!! 

an economic boost will be generated through the rendering of PRODUCE  … not fucking services !!! 

Plymouth community homes would be able to offer a minimum of 150 low cost housing units ( which if managed properly could also offer commercial attraction to the area I;e atelier option . there would be local produce of extensive variety that would encourage additional local trade 

do you see …. do you see how I would have been able to do that for about 70 grand … the botanical garden could have operated as a kind of temporary museum extension ( you see how during a bus journey I managed to come up with a functioning and accentuating name for a project ! as well as the damn project itself ) you would have been able to really pat your self on the back and said that you were '' preparing for Brexit '' … you were embracing the burgeoning resource based economy... that surely has to be the new economic model .. if we don't all want to die !!  

Give Plymouth city council 500million and see what you get … 

I could do a better job for far less ….. but isn't that just the way in this age of DONALD TRUMP A BREXIT GOVERNMENT, A PLASTIC ECONOMY … AN A POPULATION SO GRIPPED WITH AN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE AQUISITION DISORDER THAT NO ONE FACTORS THE BOMBING OF THE MIDDLE EAST INTO THE COST OF THEIR COMPLETELY UNDESERVED VACATIONS !! 

THE AGE OF THE CHARLATAN !!! KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON 

UURRRGGGHHHH !!! Additional Note !! of pertinence April 2019 

So Friend of mine is now running in the local council elections ( I have seen a few of my contemporaries have a smash at it … and have actually been quite successful - which personally I can find utterly questionable within the confines of our current paradigm , and unfortunately I do keep an eye on political ' careers ' that grner very little change in anything ….at all !! 

but this particular friend of mine is running as an independent ( something we need far more of - you see if labour feel under threat from independents it will encourage them to lean further to the left and we can shed some of those Blairite assholes that have buried themselves in like ticks ) which I absolutely advocate !! and I do completely advocate him as one of the most 100% genuine and respectable individuals I have ever met … a wonderful humanitarian human !! 

during a recent consultation with him concerning the long term implementation of a viable and sustainable economic model not so heavily geared towards GDP analytics, we broached a few note worthy topics of point … and he requested a suggestive report offering insights into how Plymouth might implement an effective socio economic transition through a potential re ruralisation project 

of course my first inclination was to blaze into a fiery rant about the political structures that keep enterprise of this very nature from securing ground anywhere but the damn internet ! I wavered and instead mumbled something about an archaic and out of touch political element that has rendered us all utterly incapable of accessing the resources to improve the given situation in its steady and unending decline …. 

but despite my absolute state of burn out !! and exhaustion !! full on fatigue in this perpetual search to just secure a tiny bit of respite … because obviously just having somewhere affordable to live and work is far too much to ask … well certainly in the city of Plymouth any way …. I will have a punt at formulating something a little more coherent than my usual mad rant …. but lets keep it all well within character just in case some tory twat in tweed tries to waddle out f some back seat and try to claim some affiliative credit for backing ideas that actually they have been actively surpressing for years !! ( personally I think they should all be held to account and is often why they shy away from even asking for my well informed opinion … because I will usually start with … ''you are an overpaid piece of shit and you wouldn't know what to do with my idea if I offered you a paint by numbers, ikea version of it ….. '' - but I digress, turns out a thousand monkeys posing as civil servants cant produce a work of Shakespeare …. or a Valerio for that matter ) 

Plymouth as I previously mentioned is a problem of miniature integrative townships …. none of the jurisdictions or long term plans are ever negotiated ( to some degree I am sure due to MOD limitations on information release , and also the councils intrinsic desire to hide the odd ' grubby ' deal …. 

there is some city plan from a million years ago by some ' institutionally esteemed ' architect .. whose grand scheme is to pull Plymouths Marine Heritage back into focus … or to Claw back some of the marine heritage …. some such nonsense that I am sure was probably the inspiration for the ' Royal William Yard ' Fiasco 

these are all terrible ideas … borne from some predisposed ideologies that really don't age well !! 

if we take a look at the basic graphic that I have prepared below 

this image shows the Plymouth City Centre , the areas highlighted in red show the area of most intense structural augmentation ( the largest and most dominating edifices in Plymouths city scape : of course I am not acknowledging that plastic dildo you stuck in for student housing or whatever ) 

can you see the next most obvious element …. take your time children …. 

green spaces … there is a great big imperial style lawn all over the prominade .. then you have a vacuous ' stream ' of green life running through the city from south to north ( although I am currently horrified to understand that your current ' system of management ' for this space is to eradicate it ? 

which in a disjointed fashion leads on down to one of the main transport terminals in and out of the city , backdropped by central park at least !…. the train station !! assuming we are looking at reducing carbon emissions and unnecessary commutes by car ( by the way you really do have to have a look at the affordability of transport in this city … but I will come back to that later on ) 

really at this stage I just look at how much there is to do … the time within which it needs to be efficacious … and the half wit assortment of salary secured mooks , and enthusiastic but near destitute calibre of excellence that I have to work with... and I genuinely despair …. jeeeezus wept !! 

ok oh well work with what you have got …. jjjjeeeeeeessssuuuuzzzz efffiinng wept !!! 

alright ! 

your main problem that you have here is really a horrible great big domino effect …. that grotesquely and circuitously meanders and slithers its way into every bloody facet of this utter assholery !! 

so where to start … I could point you in the direction of any of the open source community construction projects that I have been involved in , that are currently being implemented by more forward thinking urban planners … but lets spell it out for you like the morons you are !! you sit there on a salary … and once again I will be forced to come up the solutions for you …. for no fucking money …. jeeezuz I really do loath most of you !! why the hell should I care if you want to live in this urban ized dystopian nightmare that you have created …. and even brought fucking shares in !!! jeesus wept !! 

no man … come on that's not the attitude !! athough the appeal of jumping in a boat and heading for the high seas as a sate less pirate feels more ' career advancing ' than dealing with any of this nonsense … or any of the assholes that need to be given a good kicking in order to jump start us to a place where we aren't doomed !!! after all even if I do take to the boat ,... I will have to come back onto dry land at some point after all !! 

…… you know the very idea of this has pissed me off that much that I am not even going to try and do it all in one go back deckly 

what the fat hell

FAO  

Further to your request for a specific project that I have been involved in managing through to completion that was both challenging and rewarding, quite honestly I don’t think that I have ever been involved in a project that didn’t maintain an unwavering aspect of both attributes !!  

But a specific case scenario: 

so I have been sending out a few applications of late and one of the very few responses I managed to get back was from someone claiming to be a 

After being specifically selected to assist in the management of an Erasmus Youth Exchange Programme on the German border comprising over 60 individuals from 10 different countries for the international greenalize edition youth exchange initiative …dumped in the middle of nowhere in the middle of a blizzard that lasted a week to discuss the parameters of climate changes impacts on food production and diet!! 

‘ The Arts Hole on Tour’ ….  

Hhmm or maybe the time that I  executed a month long arts festival in the prominent NDSM werf of Amsterdam entitled ‘’ Mad Dogs and Englishmen ‘’  , comprising over 120 separate exhibitors from all across Europe and a 24 hour exhibition schedule for the full duration an event that welcomed a conservatively estimated 4,000  participants , and encapsulated the political elements of the closures of the free spaces within the municipality and also highlighted the importance of ecologically sustainable management practices within the artistic disciplines and indeed as broad a spectrum as to include urban planning and  legislation formation proposals for eco manufacturing .  

The real kicker for this one was that with the looming geo political uncertainties of brexit , all of the funding that was secured for this particular project was pulled at the last minute  …. almost rendering the entire project and 5 months planning as a redundant enterprise!  

Originally the project was set up between myself and a prospective ‘partner ‘(who had actually made some rather grand logistical pledges that were never realised)  

Fortunately a little tenacity and resourcefulness saved the day the project was seen through to completion and now looks set to be repeated on a bi yearly basis, this was all achieved without a single loan / grant or subsidy !!  

So there is a rough sketch of one of the projects that would induce a sedated rhino to an anxious wreck … that despite all of the adversity was completed well within budget and adhering to all constraints and parameters as required by law !  

The more projects that I have been involved with , the more I have identified that the issue really isnt a well-articulated well thought out battle plan ( although of course statgy is key to the successful completion of any campaign) …. its being able to keep the shit together when the bombs start dropping …. and that kind of feels like a metaphor for life  

Little Adjustments WIP 2018 / 2019

The Genes on the Buds ..... Revisited 2019

as mentioned in the previous post I have been drafting up a little notion on my spare time that will soon be available for release x

'' The Weed Wide map '' 

'' around the world in a thousand smokes '' 

The Genes on The Buds Go round and Round '' 

100% Art By Valerio 100%ABV 

depicting over 3,000 varietals of everyones favourite plant … all documented landrace genetics and all subsequent crosses and seed bank releases depicted by geographic region / genus / seed bank / year of release or notoriety 

this really is a beautiful handrendered document that has no parallel x

Compiled over two decades utilising groundbreaking research and documentation around the world , this magnificent ' periodic table ' of weed could not have been produced without the exceptional and dedicated works of 

The Cannabis College Amsterdam / The Hash Marijuana Hemp Museum Amsterdam / The Growers Bible : by Georges Cervantes , the collective works of ' The Canna Bibles ' by Jason King - of course The Emperors New Clothes by Jack Herer …. pretty mcu every seed bank in existence ( with a great big two fingers up to Monsanto and GW pharmaceuticals ) … of course there are far too many to credit everyone .. but for those I haven't mentioned ...big love to all Y'all too x  

              Around the world in a Thousand Smokes

                              ''I am having a thought here Barbosa''

                    its been over ten years since my original drafting of ' the genes on the buds                    go round and round' and upon a recent visit back to the Netherlands I felt it                       necessary to revisit the original works when I couldn't even begin to fathom                  the genetic lineages of some of the newer ' American ' or ' medi weed ' strains that have started appearing on the coffee shop menu's.

                        so here is a little preview of the current' weed wide map'  which has                               come about through over a decades worth of loose leaf research ( if you will excuse the awful pun )

                                                                                                                         

he original parchment image will be available a little later this year … and there will be a single solo availability for an additional Mural piece that will be based on the completed piece , so any interested parties should get in touch to find out more about that 

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

Brexit Refugee / The Current Predicament / 17.4million and the illusion of democratic procedure

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaarrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

UUUUUgggggggggghhhhhhh !!!

will this relentless farce never cease !!

I have been called many things over the years, I have been the point of gossip and accusation more than once …. I have benefited from exaggerations and I have been defeated by other peoples lies .
I know there is no Honour in vengeance and that pride can be a persons undoing !

hhmm where am I going with this ….

as the title suggests , there are a few little notions rattling around in my brain at the moment ( as there often is ) my predominant focus right now is income !

immediate / mid term / and long term strategic implementation and scheduling of tendered contracts and commissions to ensure a '' relatively '' steady income throughout the year ….

but of course no body knows what the hell is going on …. especially it seems I this arsehole corner of Brexit Britain !!

apparently there is a democratically valid army out there all braying that leave means leave ! and that come march 30th 2019 on the basis of a democratic decision based on a single split hair referendum those 17.4 million individuals ( population approaching 80 million and less than 20 million hold a majority ?? the largest democratic engagement in the history of our parliamentary process ?? Dodgy fucking numbers there GOV ) … yes those 17.4 million that have some how come to represent the voice of a so called majority are all arguing about what leave actually means !! well it means leave for sure ! and article 50 is now in effect … so this whole shit show looks like its coming to pass !! with no definite formulation to stategy other than vague talk of Canada agreements and Norway agreements , WTO .. the brady amendment and now the malt house agreement ...or is it an amendment ??

What The Actual Fuck !!

Now I have been running my humble little enterprise ( turning raw materials into fanciful and useful things - from buildings to butterflies ) trading entirely under my own name ( a brave thing to do in a world of '' liabilities '' ) for well over a decade now ….

jeez and what a fucking decade it has been !!! we have seen a credit crunch turn into a recession which snowballed into a tory governments endless austerity programme … which evolved into Brexit !!! personally in the long game I blame thatcher and her entire echelon of absolutely shitty humans that made up the administrations at the time … but for the sake of the length of this poorly punctuated and mis spelled epistle ( because I think if you sit someone like Donald trump down in front of a computer and give him Grammarly and fiver and wix even a piece of shit like that can look like a ' valid ' human through a heavy editing process and augmentation of reality …. well actually I think that pretty much sums it up for me !!! )- and the ever diminishing attention spans of whatever audience it is out there that actually reads through these weird little diary entries  of mine  ….

so this fucking decade where the 70's and 80's corporate branding excercises have actually now been applied to an individualistic basis via the use of social media .. and everyone is celebrating their breakfast and their own individuality through huge self promotion campaigns of absolute grotesque vanity … I despair I really do !!

so this fucking decade !! this latest fucking decade !! from the machinations of tory hell ….. that has seen my customer base and the communities that they live in be absolutely destroyed by these absolute charlatans

 I am quite proud of my little endeavour Artby Valerio's '' The Arts Hole '' its taken a lot of work and diversification to be able to survive a time when threshers wine shop / woolworths / bhs / correllian … everything has been bankrupted !! to still be trading across continents in ths kind of unfunded self reliance has been really tough but when I stand in front of a few of those that were suitably funded , suitably sheltered .. and even suitably fed … and I am not left wanting ! I can look anyone in the eye when questioned and I can always make a stong , albeit occaisionally  meandering case !

and yet my entire enterprise feels as though it is in jepeordy at the moment … indeed has been since that total wanker Cameron came up with this ridiculousness in the hope that we would all forget that he fucked a dead pigs head !!! WTF ??

I am currently enjoying the companionship of a wonderful eastern European woman whose stance here in the u.k has yet to be confirmed WTF?? … I personally see far more economic growth over the water , and am indeed often compelled to venture to Europe in order to supplement my ever ailing wages here in the U.K !!!!

the city my partner lives in … I suppose is almost my home town ( see any of the online artivles I have posted about my encounters with Plymouth city council ) and there are absolutely zero prospects … in real terms !! and its so utterly depressing … that is the only word for it !!

one of the most deprived areas in the whole of Europe … the place looks like an ex communist county after the fall of the soviet union …. really its a disgrace !!

do you flee … pack up all of your shit and head of to some distant land in the hope of generating a better life??

Around the world in a Thousand Smokes

''I am having a thought here Barbosa''

its been over ten years since my original drafting of ' the genes on the buds go round and round' and upon a recent visit back to the Netherlands I felt it necessary to revisit the original works when I couldn't even begin to fathom the genetic lineages of some of the newer ' American ' or ' medi weed ' strains that have started appearing on the coffee shop menu's

so here is a little preview of the current' weed wide map'  which has come about through over a decades worth of loose leaf research ( if you will excuse the awful pun )

the original parchment image will be available a little later this year … and there will be a single solo availability for an additional Mural piece that will be based on the completed piece , so any interested parties should get in touch to find out more about that 

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

Dear Council

Dear Plymouth City Council …..

it cannot have escaped your attention that the city you saturate with your horrible little green logo …in some sort of statist self congratulatory boast !! looks like a pile of shit !!

of course it cannot have escaped your attention that the scale of poverty that you have by default of central government failings for well over a decade now … employed an utterly disastrous planning and management policy that simply cannot be allowed to continue  …. your staggering ineptitude of your position is absolute !! and indeed now even ratified by the UN

despite your guaranteed and over scaled salary , we receive little or no product or service !! this by any measure is an absolute con !!

so no more!! this utter farce can no longer be tolerated !!

I have seen the extent that central government cuts have imposed on many of our rural and urban areas alike !! and despite the utter neglect !! and it is neglect and a hideous mal administration really that the resources that you have left continue to be squandered in such a fashion !!

I personally have never enjoyed your so called collaborative measures , I consider you to be a series of utterly mediocre cowards , a self preening self congratulating yet utterly disgusting entity … just like Donald trump himself really !! !! indeed it was only a few short years ago that I personally was subjected to a monstrous inconvenience due to your complete inability to do your job ! and I am sure there are many more in the city that can attest to that sentiment !

Now, for whatever reasons … where are where we are !!

in the run up to Brexit Britain we have put up with administrative failings that have left this city and many others like it …. near derelict !! and the level of desperation in the populace is utterly palpable !!!might I propose to you that for the most part … you all fuck off !! like literally go home !! stop coming to this so called place of employment ! cease all functions !! the level of skills you exhibit for the money you cost can no longer be justified !

you got a few holidays out of it and probably paid half off an overpriced house … but your salary needs to allocated into a more constructive long term plan for this city … that you clealy have no ability to consider , let alone manage !

the alternative of course … and this really is a begrudgingly suggested ' mediated ' outcome … because quite honestly I would rather have nothing to do with you !!

would be for an internal revolt !! of your own !

in the same way that the leader of the opposition party stating that te executives door may be open but her ears aren't … is a perfect parody of the way that you have been operating for far too long now …

might I suggest that you apply some of your daily facebook or long lunch time … to the actual task at hand ! to reach out to organizations like myself ! instead of trying to destroy us through non applicable and totally dismissible court proceedings !! stop trying to be a teachers pet to a central government that has collapsed !!

work with what you have … and by the way I don't mean go and sign another lease over to another fucking coffee/ pizza  franchise that pay zero corporation tax and keep the population on a minimum wage for a minimum quality product  …. or some hotel franchise that will take up 10,000 sq metres of your dilapidated city …. the cost of education is worthy of protest !! so most of your academic faculties have lost all merit !! …. so in turn has the student accommodation I am sure someone is getting back handers on !!!

my only conclusion is that you are either completely retarded … or utterly sinister !!

but indeed needs must as the devil drives !

you seem to me to just be the utter personification of this whole Brexit attitude , and indeed to what I have coined ' the age of the charlatan ' an arrogant assumption ,that bolshie attitude of ' they need us more than we need them '

your a fat over unionised asshole with a heavy reliance on infrastructure and government … both of which has utterly failed !! while it was in your hands !!! ….. no one needs you for anything ! and that is why you had to build these self serving systems that enabled you to carry on getting fatter in mind and physique … no you are a grotesque liability an aged decrepit shadow of something that once was ! just like Donald Trump , Geoffrey Cox … indeed the whole tory party in general

personally I can advocate the collapse of the whole state !! and quite honestly I think that would be the ideal !! but I also understand hat does sound like a scary premise full of uncertainty.... well for some at least

and so in the interest of maintaining some semblance of civility as ' western civilization ' eats itself ! or worse feeds itself to the likes of Donald Trump and Thereasa May

once again I will suggest that you get in touch … open a dialogue and prove me wrong !!