About Us
The Founder
James Warren
James took his first degrees in Furniture Design & Production at the London College of Furniture. Here he also set up the Photography Club which would go on to be an established part of the College facilities. Afterwards a Fencing Club followed. Later he would obtain a Master’s Degree from the Royal College of Art. However, to be eligible for entry it was bizarrely required that candidates had ‘O’ Level English Language, a qualification in his native language that he had already spectacularly failed 6 times, the seventh essential & desperate attempt was during a London heatwave in the glazed ‘Royal Horticultural Hall’ and this time he was drunk and halfway under the examination table! His English Tutor afterwards disowned him, but he had passed; the moral of which we will never know!
Upon graduating he taught mentally and also physically handicapped students; one of whom was blind and intent on building a model of the Ark; just as much as a challenge to the student as it was to him as a lecturer.
In 1984 he obtained a post as Producer/Designer with the Ministry of Education which had come up with a bold scheme to combine education with enterprise. From this courageous and imaginative concept 4º South Design Studios evolved, producing original craft & kitchen products from local woods together with a textile section. This was an exciting time as the infrastructure of the Nation was being developed under the vision of the then President Albert Rene. By some extraordinary coincidence his son B.O.S.S. Warren was born on Albert Rene’s birthday the 16th November who was known as ‘The Boss’; whilst James was born on the infamous birthday March 17th of the mercenary ‘Mad Mike’ Hoare;’ the latter who was behind the failed 1981 coup d’etat attempt. The moral of this we will never know either!
James has over some five years listened to and discussed the woes and aspirations of our fellow citizens in most Districts from the substance abuser, through Directors of Industry to M.N.A.’s. The ‘Draft Policies’ are empowered and a direct result of these people’s aspirations. James, whilst being the founder of ECO ECO in July 2021, a party to be formed for people of integrity with young thinking minds; undertook many of these discussions whilst employed at a Holistic Rehabilitation Centre for substance abusers. Which was equipped with an assault course, a modest farm with a variety of fowls and goats which was a positive distraction during the client’s withdrawal.
Welcome sign at the La Misere holistic rehabilitation centre
He has also received training in ‘Advanced’ driving by the Hendon Police, undergone training for piloting light planes and parachuting with the Marines where one was expected to pack your own parachute. This was in order to avoid any complaints afterwards; from any sky diver who ended up bonding with the airport at 120 mph!
Now none of this has been without incidents and some people have nicknamed him ‘The Cat.’ For, he was involved in a plane accident with a 50% survival rate; so judiciously decided to take up parachuting as a safeguard against any future events, absurdly at the time not taking into account that it would take Herculean strength to open the EXIT door on a commercial plane at 30,000 feet and that they don’t carry parachutes anyway! Now had he tried to carry one through airport controls there would have been questions by Security Officers:
“Sir, why are you carrying a parachute?”
“It’s just in case there’s an incident and I can jump out!”
“Sir, you do realize that you would suck half the passengers and most of the crew out of the aircraft! Tell us, what other terrorist plans do you have?”
Had I replied jokingly in a heavy Iraqian accent: “al-Zarqawi said I would be rewarded with 72 virgins in Paradise!” The English having a great sense of humour would see the joke; but if you tried that at J.F.K. it would result in the rest of one’s life behind bars, such is the cultural difference. Perhaps that’s why his middle name is ‘Trouble’!
However, on the 13th static line jump he ended up upside down doing 100 mph spiraling out of control with the main parachute lines wrapped around his legs; in the humungous effort of getting the last line off he blacked out and dislocated his elbow. Then in London he was hit in the legs by a speeding car doing 60 mph, then a roller-skating accident at Greenwich Observatory doing 30 mph which filled both knees with gravel that subsequently went gangrenous. Later whilst on holiday in Italy he broke a rib on the boom whilst out surfing on a sinker in a force 8, he was lucky to get back to shore without the rib going through the lung. Then after a triple bypass operation in 2010 he died and then was subsequently reanimated. The latest was being caught in a rip current going out to sea at Grand Anse, where he may well have drowned if Luke had not saved him with his surf board. Which just gives two lives left!
He is also the author of The Lulworth Triangle: Where Plod Fights The Wicked Plot and Zombie-dom, followed by an off-the-wall video on YouTube under the same name; with all the props and filming being done in-house with his talented daughter Chantelle. And here is this crazy dude as a ‘spaceman’ during the book’s promotion and launch.
Stunts
