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Moo Shu Vegetable- Anyone who contributes to the project will be named in the official mission report, unless of course they don't want to be.
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Kung Po Shrimp- BPL postage. Genuine U.S. postage. Two different stamps depicting BPL hardware, cynical mottos, or mission logos. Good for letters or household repairs.
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Chow My Fun - Mission Report. Of course a complete report on the mission will be produced at its conclusion. BPL mission reports are a vital record of company activity and the backbone of our output since they are so cheap to print out. Each one is a work of art, composed, designed, bound, stamped and otherwise mutilated by hand in the bureaucratic labyrinth at BPL. The mission report from BPL - 002 can be seen here: http://browerpropulsionlab.com/directory/BPL_002_Outsourcing_Mission_To_China
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Moo Goo Gai Pan - Mission Patch. A yet to be designed emblem signifying important mission elements and commemorating the event. Currently we are playing with the image of a chinese food container from which a chicken mcnugget looking thing in the shape of china is being removed held by one chopstick and one paintbrush from a pool of liquid in the shape of the United States.
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Peking Duck - Commemorative Chinese China. A thrift-store chinese china plate sandblasted with Mission information and graphics. Rendered fairly useless or at least unsanitary by the means of technical intervention, this item is contrasted with BPL's highly functional (and popular) Recycled Coffee Mugs (see https://bpl-solutions.com/product/03-C100 for examples).
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Double Happiness - This mission will generate stereo imagery, just as our BPL-003 Moranic Mission To Montana has. We will be preparing 3D stereo pairs depicting Chinese Food consumed during the mission. You will get our custom viewer (sculpted, molded, cast and calibrated by BPL's co-Optics expert) and a set of 5 stereogram cards. This viewer even works with your iPhone! If you already own a viewer and an iPhone and would like to see the food during the mission, we can send you the images in an email- just let us know! Pictures of the viewers and stereo cards can be seen at: https://bpl-solutions.com/product/03-SV003
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General Tso's Chicken - One Meal, one painting. The BPL CEO and Head Machinist will make a painting of a meal consumed by himself and a group of Chinese students during his stay in China. The gouache rendering will be annotated with data such as topics of conversation, time and date, temperature, hairstyles, actual cost of meal, etc. Executed on paper, the size will be somewhere between 4 x 5 and 8 x 12 inches, and may include spatters of actual food. For external use only. Some examples of paintings from BPL-002 can be seen here: http://browerpropulsionlab.com/directory/BPL_002_Outsourcing_Mission_To_China . *Note- if you are wondering why these paintings are cheaper than the similarly sized paintings in our other kickstarter project, the explanation is that these paintings are made in China, with outsourced labor!
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Happy Family - If the touristic paintings such as those executed in BPL's original Experimental Outsourcing Mission hold more appeal, our Outsourced employee will be generating more when he's not eating! These gouache paintings will be festooned with the typical notation found in any plein air jotting worth it's salt, plus official BPL stampings in English and Mandarin.
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Dragon and Phoenix - Two Meals, two paintings. Same as above, for two, and cheaper. If you need to create a banquet of your own and you think you need more than two of these things, get in touch with me at stevenbrower@verizon.net. BPL generally discourages concentration- of its products or any other kind.
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I am an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. I have a degree in Painting from Pratt Institute. For the past 10 years or so, I've been making increasingly elaborate "space missions", based initially on NASA projects, which had always looked an awful lot like Art Projects to me. I began by attempting to copy something NASA did, knowing I would fail, but would in the process acquire lots of knowledge and new skills. I always make everything myself, doing a lot of research, and using whatever means I can muster, even to the point of making up tools and processes that might be better purchased elsewhere. That methodology started from necessity and has become one of the central themes of my work. I created the fake aerospace corporation, Brower Propulsion Laboratory, to act as a platform for this increasingly diverse range of production. The more various my output becomes, the more departments are added to the company, so my interests are never curtailed by my previous activities. Interestingly, this DIY trajectory has caused me to develop skills that have gotten me my livelihood, such as it is. I have found my wage earning activity is more dependent on my artwork than the other way around.
make it happen motherfuckers!
wheat paste, you know.
flavored postage? nice. i'll take spicy
Usually we don't allow substitutions, but since you are a laowai, you want that mild or spicy?
I'd like to order a #4, but wondered if I could get a side of #2 as well.