pcblues

Transcendence - my new novel

2011-05-21T16:38:00.000+10:00

Hi guys.

Here is my latest creation and yet another reason for general hermitry.

Transcendence, a novel

A lonely god, Barry, creates a universe as a large social experiment
to find out what would happen if he met somebody.

An aggrieved soul, Damien, unexpectedly wakes in the body of a human
Vessel and takes advantage of his situation to bend history in his favour.

Barry's agents Prue and Jack struggle to find a way to stop him, and
Barry appears to be losing control of his creation.

Will Barry scrap everything and start over?

Or will Prue and Jack find a solution where they least expect it?

Click here to preview, share, rate and review my speculative fiction novel.
It is available for purchase as paperback or e-book.

Cheers,

--
Mark Osborne
e: markdosborne@gmail.com
w: http://pcblues.com

Thanking You All - Doritos Ad Comp 2010

2010-08-11T14:38:00.001+10:00

In order to thank you all for your support, here are two special features, plus a high quality version of the original ad.
They are on youtube, so they may not run in your workplace.

Signing off for this project,

Mark D Osborne (Guess what the D is for?)

Doritos May Save the World - Director's Cut

This is the one Ridley Scott really wanted to make but was constrained by the required length of the original work. You can see how much had to be left out..

Doritos May Save the World - Cutting Room Floor Not quite "The Making Of" from lack of interviews and in-depth analysis by the production crew, this cute collection of speed-humps on the way to "Doritos May Save the World" will stand as a diary, if you wish...

Doritos May Save the World

My advertisement for the 2010 Doritos Ad Competition

--
Mark Osborne
e: markdosborne@gmail.com
w: http://pcblues.com

2010 Doritos Ad Comp: Thanks everyone!

2010-08-06T14:32:00.001+10:00

Thanks for your support!
I didn't make the top 100, but had a lot of fun.
Now I'll get back to my first fiction novel.

Stay tuned!

--
Mark Osborne
e: markdosborne@gmail.com
w: http://pcblues.com

Mark Osborne's Entry in the Doritos Ad Competition 2010

2010-07-28T11:37:00.001+10:00

Hi all.

Election time has come early! Please VOTE FOR ME.

From now until Wednesday 4th August 9am, my home-grown Doritos advertisement will be available for you to view, laugh at, vote for and share with everyone you know.

My advert can be found here:
http://www.doritos.com.au/#/gallery/week-8/id/2225

Voting for my advert is open now (to Australian residents). You can vote 5 times per day for the same advert during this period. The truly heroic among you will be able to vote up to 40 times! If you vote or refer a friend via the Doritos website you also go into a daily prize draw for each day you do so.

The details:

The advertisement with the most votes for this voting period goes into a pool of 8 wild-card ads from which 1 is fast-tracked to the final 10.
My advert also can be selected by a judging panel based on its originality, creativity, popularity, appeal, and keeping to the rules as one of the other 9 of the final 10 from the hundreds of other entries.
The final 10 is then judged by a panel that select 3 for the Grand Final.
The final 3 will then be open for public judging.

I will let you know if I make it that far!

Let your family and friends know about this with facebook, twitter, word of mouth, jungle drums, smoke signals, or forwarding this email.

Thanks for your help.
Happy Voting!

--
Mark Osborne
e: markdosborne@gmail.com
w: http://pcblues.com

our areas nativity scene

2008-12-09T14:43:00.000+11:00

my wife and i

2008-11-26T23:41:00.000+11:00

movember

2008-11-26T22:54:00.000+11:00

books

2008-11-15T10:52:00.000+11:00

drive.com.au

2008-08-13T14:20:00.000+10:00

drive.com.au

http://www.drive.com.au/Common/Email/Confirmation.aspx?ecTY=1&ecLC=12&ecMK=Toyota&ecAD=15913220070515

Amazing

2008-08-08T10:57:00.000+10:00

Google at your own risk. I really mean it. NSFW

box 2

2008-07-30T20:32:00.000+10:00

the way i see things

2008-07-22T15:26:00.000+10:00

box 1 redo

2008-07-21T22:59:00.000+10:00

Box 1

2008-07-20T21:44:00.000+10:00

books

2008-06-28T13:39:00.000+10:00

faith the gym bear

2008-06-26T07:30:00.000+10:00

Thanks mum!

I got a new lappy

2008-02-16T21:01:00.000+11:00

It's cool, and by cool I mean totally sweet.

Banana peel as shoe polish?

2008-02-16T20:52:00.000+11:00

I saw a link on the web the other day that the inside of a banana skin contained potassium, the active ingredient in shoe polish. As a good scientist, I tried it. I didn't notice a difference, but they weren't very scuffed to start with.

Can you tell which shoe got polished?

(the right one)

I got a Dymo label maker

2008-02-16T20:43:00.001+11:00

On Thursday, I got a label maker, and started labelling things around
the house. It feels good to be organised.

dcc

2008-02-01T17:33:00.000+11:00

Some guys from work

My Desk at Work

2008-01-31T12:05:00.000+11:00

This is a photo of the coal-face.

Australia Day Weekend in Geelong

2008-01-29T16:02:00.009+11:00

Australia Day Weekend in Geelong
Originally uploaded by pcblues

6:27 PM Sunday, 27 January 2008 27012008023 Tam and I went to Geelong on Sunday and hung out with Scott and Donna and Lochie, Dan and Renee, Nat and Scott

Tammy Osborne

Scott Sheedy

Dan Sheedy and Renee Trigg

You can work out who this is from the previous photo descriptions.

Tammy is modelling one of the two Bundy promotional T-shirts.

Dinner at Poppy's Thai

2008-01-29T08:11:00.011+11:00

Dinner at Poppy's Thai
Originally uploaded by pcblues

8:48 PM Monday, 28 January 2008 28012008024 Had dinner with Tam, Scott, Trish and Jarrod