Happy Holidays & Good Hunting in 2010!

We are officially off for the year of 2009. To all our members, we thank you for your loyal support and continued interest with Stock-Archive.com We are aiming for an early January 2010 launch and hope that many of you will come back next year and join us again in the new year. Thanks again to everyone who have helped us throughout the year to get Stock-Archive.com ready to roll.

Happy Holidays and good hunting in 2010.

Free Images: Holiday Classics

To all our members we wish you and your families have a wonderful holiday break. I know our staff and team need to take a good long break and not look at another photo-edit, keyword, line of code or programming... let alone a computer.

For all those "last minute" people who haven't put a holiday card together yet, we got you covered. Try using these eight amazing vector files to build a wicked graphic like the one you see above.... ("Our Christmas card" that we are sending out). So there you go. Proof is in the rice pudding. Enjoy the images, tell your friends about us. Heck, give them the best gift and tell them about our 2,000 free images.... seriously is that not the best gift you could give. Heck ya!

Images should be up over the weekend.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Happy Hanukkah

Happy Hanukkah to all our Jewish members and those celebrating the Festival of Lights. Some members inquired about photos with the for the Jewish Holiday and the Menorah. In celebration, we've provided eight free photos of a golden menorah and eight candles ready to be lit.

If any other members are looking for images of specific cultural or religious celebrations please let us know and we will do our best to get them added to our collection. The free images will be up this week.


We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Big fans of : Graffiti Research lab

http://graffitiresearchlab.com/



We can respect good quality graffiti and support the artists that take it seriously. Done right it is amazing. Were not big fans of random tagging that are littered throughout our streets. However, as objective as we can be, we can only see it as a stepping stone for some of these artists who mature and put their skills to use for good and evolve the next advancements in our society because these people are passionate about what they do. Passion drives creativity which builds progress and advances our future leaders.

The Graffiti Research Lab is a great example to show the general public that sometimes the people just trying to express themselves are the people who will use their minds for progression and good causes to advance our world or to help inspire those who are less fortunate. We present " The EyeWriter."

Hero > Kyle Skinner

Kyle Skinner, A.K.A, Sinestro, A.K.A, Manni Quinn, A.K.A, David E. Allen, and A.B.Original, A.K.A, Kyle 2.0, A.K.A, our featured hero this month. So who is this masked man?

Kyle is one of the most talented people we know, Kyle is a designer, photographer and laser graffiti artist. He plays by his rules and does things his way. Oh sure, we hear that all the time, but who really does it. Actions are stronger than words. Kyle is all about action and new inspiration. Only a couple weeks ago Kyle was the lead designer for the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club for the NHL. Year after year this guys work is amazing and keeps getting better. So, what does he do next? He leaves! Two weeks notice and bang, off he goes to Australia with his camera and laptop with no agenda other than looking for the next creative project or something that inspires him. Okay Kyle, you've got my undivided attention and utmost respect... and you've probably just made about a thousand new groupies because of this blog post.

It isn't everyday someone has the guts to just pick up and leave a great job, great salary with an amazing benefits package with a gym membership and tickets to hockey games/concerts to just go be inspired. Damn, I wish I had your guts. I'm weak, but stronger because of your spirit. Giver Kyle, and send us a post card or tag some laser messages for us in Austrailia.

To all our Australian members who are looking for an Creative or Art director or designer, check out Kyle's amazing work at Sinestro Design Don't worry, I don't think he travels with the Mexican wrestling mask. But it is quite fetching don't you think?

Free Images: Jolly good.

No we haven't been dozing off or forgotten about the free images. We've been crazy busy keywording and getting files prepped for launch. Our apologies for the delay. They will be up in the next day or two.

As we were prepping some images from a few years back we found some great Clip Art illustrations of Santa/Christmas that are great for invites or event specials.

Have you noticed that suddenly everywhere you go Christmas is all "modern and chic"? Not to say that we aren't big fans of the "modern and chic" styles (See pages 7, 51, and 56 for amazing "Free" Xmas photos and vector images ), but, sometimes we just need to go back to basics. We need that classic look. Bring on the jolly dude, a reindeer, some cookies and a snowman to make your holidays all frosty and cool! If cool isn't your thing, then try page 55 for some nice warm holiday images.

Now, if you or the company is having a Christmas party then you probably don't want to miss out on page 57 to witness the ugly side of Christmas! We've got all angles covered for your Christmas images so go do your magic.

These clip art images were created for Stock Archive Inc. by Steve Coffin. Steve has been supplying Stock-Archive.com with clip art Illustrations and audio for years and we would like to tip our magic snowman hat to him for all the great work he has done. Thanks Steve.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: The first snowfall

You can just taste it. The smell and feeling is in air. But we'll all have to wait for the real stuff. That beautiful white snow is soon about to sprinkle down over us like icing sugar on a birthday cake. How sweet it is. Those covered tree tops and fluffy powdered slopes are only a dream until it snows. Trust us, we feel your pain. But it is almost here. Until then, here are some great images that will tease you until the real stuff is here.

These great images were captured by one of our fantastic interns Steve Capyk who built some amazing stock elements for us while working with us on his internship. There are plenty more great skiing and snowboarding shots to come once the site launches.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free images: Naughty or nice.

Well who cares if you've been naughty or nice this year. Santa is in your back pocket early this year. We've had lots of requests for Santa and festive photos. We'll start with some santa shots for this week as we know you've got campaigns to prepare for your clients. Why pay credits for photos of santa when they are for free here. Huh... what a novel idea. Tell your friends you found the north pole and tell them to come here if they want their photo with Santa.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

We expect to get the free images up over the weekend. Enjoy.

Free images: Why so blue?

My reason for being blue is that I just got out of surgery. It was painful to sit and select the free images but I got'er done. Hope you dig them and can use them well in your projects. While I'm not guaranteeing anything at this point... the site "Soft launch" is coming up. Our fingers are crossed and hope your are two. Crappy time to have surgery but what ever lets get this site up and rolling. Enjoy. I'm going to lie down as per the doctors suggestion.


We expect to get the free images up over the weekend. Enjoy.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Hero > Madoka Nemoto

A few weeks late on the "Hero" profile but well worth the wait.

We thought we'd slice together a little preview to really give you the feeling and mood of these images. You really need to watch the video to truly appreciate the uncomfortable elegance these amazing images emit. So beautiful yet so edgy and dark. Madoka captures intense energy in her shots and we are still trying to figure out how she does it. Madoka is a very talented photographer that lives in Chiba, Japan. We spotted Madoka at the Algonquin College photography exhibit. While she was leaving back to Japan after school we were lucky that she was interested in coming to visit and shoot with us as part of our internship program. We were fortunate to have her intern with us here in Canada. Madoka is continuing to produce content for Stock-Archive.com from Japan. It is a pleasure to work with this amazing talent. Rock on Madoka!

You can see and access some of the free images in our archive that Madoka shot for www.Stock-Archive.com on pages 94, 99 and some other pages spaced out throughout the free promotional images on the site. Enjoy.

Free Images: Square city

It is okay to be a little square these days. At Stock-Archive.com we are all hot and sweaty over squares and cubes. We love them so much that we are building an entire universe of square dudes, things, and objects for you to take advantage of in the archive on launch. We think you'll dig these squares characters. A little shout out to Nana Akashi for illustrating these amazing little characters. Well done!

We expect to get the free images up over the weekend. Enjoy.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: 100 weeks old.

It sure feels like 100 years. But, it has only been 100 weeks that we've been handing out amazing, high quality free images. For this week we thought we'd do something for both you and us. We put a little memory lane photo album together. These are just some old photos taken over the past few years of our crazy shenanigans while shooting some of the photo collections for the archive. I still can't believe it. Think about it. 100 weeks of free images. That is a lot of images, a lot of time. We sincerely hope you've enjoyed the images.

The images should be up early next week. Halloween kinda got in the way for last weeks images.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Autumn colours

You gotta just love all these amazing colours. A special thanks to Madoka Nemoto our Intern photographer (Featured Hero next week) for her amazing contributions while she was working with us... not to mention some fantastic modeling with us. Hats off to Masayo for jumping in there also during the shoot.

Free images should be up over the weekend or early next week. Enjoy!


We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Shameless Promo : Stock Archive "Connect with us"

This is a video we produced when we were first starting off. We digitized a version so we could pop it up on our youtube channel. It pretty much showcases some of the content we have in www.stock-archive.com. Just a little shameless promo eye-candy. The video was produced Victory Arts by Audio for this one was produced by Bartmart Audio. Get connected, get inspired get 2,000 free promotional images at Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Halloween treats

Halloween is soon here and we've been getting tons of requests for "basic" traditional halloween type images. We dug in and found some here that we hope will help. I wish we had time to path them for you all. My apologies. Enjoy the images and have fun doing something whacky with them.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Jennifer Scrivens does N.Y.C. ... again

Back by popular demand.... well, we just posted a version on youtube that was better than the earlier version we posted using the blogger video tool. We figured we'd re-post the video. If you haven't seen this video, It is worth watching. Jennifer Scrivens is a talented photographer from Ottawa that just finished an amazing photo exhibit at the Ottawa Arts Court. If you didn't make it out this time you better hit it up next time. Her work is amazing. She pretty much rocks our world.

Free Images: Gourd-ious

You gotta admit that Fall/Autumn is a beautiful season. The colours are amazing. Even these ugly gourds look amazing. "Who would have thunk it!" As paraphrased from the Vice Admiral who shot these free images for you all this week. Enjoy looking at them. They may make your designs look great I would not suggest eating any though.

Free images will be up over the weekend. Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in Canada.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Good Question > "Credit"

One of our members asked if they can use the audio tracks for their demo reel and asked what type of credit recognition, if any is needed.

The answer to the question is, no official credit is required on the demo reel (provided you are not implying that you created the music yourself). That wouldn't be cool. We certainly do welcome and appreciate any credit given. Something like "Photos by Stock-Archive.com" or "Audio by Stock-Archive.com" if possible.

We hope you are all enjoying the benefits of the free content. Sharing the love back to us with credit is a nice thing to do and we thank you sincerely if you choose to do so. For us, we don't have a marketing budget... but we do have our amazing and valued members who say nice things about us. Besides, we know you'll produce award winning work with our content all we ask is to be remembered when you make it big.

Free Images: Birth to Birthday

Happy Birthday. We all have one each year. Some like to party and others like to keep it quite. We thought we'd showcase a small story-line of events from finding out the "great news", to the baby room renovation and all the way to the very first birthday party. Good times!

Enjoy the free images. They should be posted early next week.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Hero > Anton Sop

While you and I sleep at night, Anton Sop begins his work shift. I've known and worked with him for about 10 years now and we figured out early on that this guy does not do a day job. Anton thrives for the dark sky and glowing light to be inspired whether it be coding or taking photos. That is cool with us. We like to work with people who do things in their own way. We knew Anton as a guy who would work with us for code and unique programming skills. Since he was such a master with code, we wondered what he would do with a camera? Other than spilling coffee in it, falling off monuments with it and breaking it, he has taken photos that are absolutely awe-inspiring. With no training Anton takes "Vanessa" (the camera) and has captured hundreds of amazing images for us from a unique perspective that we never would get from anyone else.

In honour of his birthday, we put a video together titled "REMSOP". This montage of his work shows you exactly how these images translate when used in a project. Amazing. you'll watch it over and over. The images we used in the video are also for free on the www.Stock-Archive.com promo site. While the time- lapse video clips and other video clips he produced for us are not on the free site, they will be available when the site launches. We thank him for his amazing work on both the Stock Archive website and the great photos he has taken for us.

Happy Birthday Sir Anton!

See more of Anton's photos on Flickr

Free Images: REMSOP

Sleep is good. Sleep aids the process by which creativity forms associative elements into new combinations that can open up new creative directions that we can't even imagine during our waking consciousness.

We like to work with the night birds who sleep during the day and play at night. Their creative view is very different than everybody else. We like that... we like it very much. Anton Sop is one of those amazing people who see beauty in all the places that other people can't, or they are just too blind to see it. These raw and gritty images tell stories that can be used to inspire, create a mood or maybe shock your audience. We respect the image, the man and the idea behind it. We even left the sensor dirt in place and kept the images "unedited" as cleaning them would be a disservice to the image, the photographer and to you the end user. Don't believe it? Check out how we used the images in Anton's hero profile video above.


We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com


Interested in more REM sleep info? Read up, sleep tight, be creative.

A good cause: United Way Campaign 2009

Each year Stock-Archive and Victory Arts makes time to work with the United Way Ottawa, to produce their campaign video and photos. It is a good cause and we are proud to have helped for over 4 years now. This years theme is "reDISCOVER COMMUNITY. What do you want your community to be?" Think about the message, think about how you can help in your community. Every little bit helps and it is for a great cause. To find out more about the United Way Ottawa, and how to donate, you can visit them on their website http://www.unitedwayottawa.ca

For production on this years video we tip our hats to Will Reid for his amazing direction and motion graphics magic. Masayo Shimizu and Ken Cooper for their amazing motion graphics and design contributions. The amazing audio score was composed and mixed at by David Burns and Wayne Bartlett. www.Bartmart Audio

To view the previous United Way Videos that Stock Archive / Victory Arts produced please visit our Victory Arts link on YouTube here. There are a whole pile of other portfolio videos we've produced there to get your juices flowing.

Hero > Masayo Shimizu

Arigatou gozaimasu Masayo! Arigatou gozaimasu!

While it has only been a few days since you left on your journey back home to Japan, your presences is already missed here at Stock Archive and Victory Arts.




For those of you who think you don't know Masayo, there is a good chance you know her because of her amazing work. Masayo produced endless amounts of quality illustrations, photos and motion graphics for us here at www.Stock-Archive.com and www.victoryarts.com.

Masayo came to us from Algonquin college where she was graduating from the Graphic Design program. We got a call from the Graphic Design Coordinator one day before co-op started asking if we had room for one more student. We said yes and boy are we glad we did. Masayo proved to be a major asset to our illustration portion of the archive. Masayo has pumped out hundreds if not thousands of amazing illustrations for the archive, illustrations you for you to take advantage of each week on our free promotional site and our later once we launch. Each conference we've attended people would always stop and comment that the illustration was amazing! We agree it is amazing because Masayo is amazing! While we could ramble on all day about how amazing she is you should just visit her website at www.masayoshimizu.net,

As a thanks, we put a tribute video together for her. Stay gold Masayo! Magi Kakkoii!




Masayo thank you so much for everything! We hope you enjoy your video.

Free Images: Something fishy going on.

Wow thanks for the amazing feedback on the vector aquatic illustrations (Illustrated by our very own Masayo Shimizu who just sadly moved back to Japan. We miss her already! She will be featured as our next Hero so check her out).

Some of you were asking for a photo with goldfish and water bubbles.... yes, we do have blue water also. But who says that water always has to be blue? Blue is so 1989. We are 2009 and we are red hot right now we added some red water and orange gold fish to the bowl. Take a chance and see what happens. Pretty cool if you ask me. These amazing photos were done for us by an intern who Masayo introduced to us. Madoka Nemoto came all the way from Japan a year ago today to intern with us for a month. She did some amazing and unique photos. We'll feature Madoka in the up coming weeks. For now enjoy the images.

The images should be up over the weekend or early next week.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: There is always a bigger fish.

Now, we may be classified as one of the small fish... but we have lots of spunk, determination and we are pretty darn cute. We can swim circles around these big guys for sure. Do you see any other company giving away over 2,000 photos and vector illustrations for free as a promotion? Nope! As far as we can tell, you can only get that many free high quality images free with Stock Archive at www.Stock-Archive.com. That is some of the great feedback we've been getting from people. You've mentioned that "other" stock sites give free images but they often are less desirable images at poor resolutions and you appreciate the quality images and illustrations. It is our pleasure and we are happy so many of you like what you see here. We like to be a little different. We do like to try and get images out to people who request as best we can.... as with this weeks special request. A member asked for some aquatic illustrations for a school project. Our answer is simple. "Here you go... enjoy this weeks free vector illustrations.

Free images should be up this weekend.

Free Images: What happens in Vegas...

...should not always stay in Vegas. Good thing we don't follow that motto! We figure there are a million stories that can be captured with simple images of Vegas. Our Photographer kindly took these amazing shots for us while on his vacation few years back. These wild west shots are unique to say the least. Not your typical Vegas shots. We like it that way. We know you'll figure out a unique way to use these gritty images.

The Free images should be up sometime early next week. It is a long weekend here so it may be Tuesday. We'll try to get it all up earlier though! Enjoy the long weekend!


We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go towww.Stock-Archive.com

REGISTER AWAY! Registration is solid yet again!

Users can now register again! Our developer fixed the issue remotely from his vacation! Talk about service. So, if you tried to register and were not able to, try your username and password in the sign in. If it works, great! If not you'll have to re-register to get your username and password working. A small step for a huge amount of free stuff. If I may say so myself.... totally worth the 1 minute of time it takes to register.

Thanks again for your patience and understanding. Please enjoy the Free content.

Don't register... yet.

Hi to all the new an interested people looking to register (or to those who did over the weekend). We were doing some edits to the registration form and we just noticed that anyone who registered over the weekend may not have access. We will work on this over the next day or two and fix. We apologize to anyone who registered and were not able to gain access to the free images. We will post a message here in the blog to let you know when it is good to register again. Our developer is off for a few days so we are in limbo until he gets back. Please do come back to register as we know you'll love the FREE content we have to offer. If you choose not to we totally understand and apologize for this temporary block.

Thank you for your patience, understanding and support.

Free Images: ABC-XYZ > "Do it yourself typesetting kit"

[ Images should be up by Monday. ]

The Free images for this week are to compliment the 1,2,3 to 28 images that we uploaded the other a few weeks back. We felt that we short changed the alphabet by not putting up any letters so we scribbled up some letters (Literally), took a shot of each one edited them and there you go. These edgy letters like to lean to the dark or carry some cruel intentions behind them do some thing cool with them. Digital Fonts are so old school. Typesetting is so hot... again. Did I just date myself?

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Hero > Garry Tutte

When Stock-Archive.com was at FITC in Toronto we bumped into our friend Garry that we worked with a few years back. After speaking with him he told us he was now directing and also doing motion graphics. So, meet Sir Garry Tutte! This guy is an amazing director / motion graphics expert. We love this guy and everything he does. From the last time we talked with him he said he prefers to work as an independent and collaborate with studios and other talented people. Garry is based out of Toronto (Since we last spoke). So, if you are looking to hire someone to come up with a unique angle on a project, direct it and even wrap it up with motion graphics then this is the guy you should to be talking with. Check out his reel/portfolio at his website www.garrytutte.com.

Free Images: Back to school... again

I say "again" because we had a great response from two weeks ago (PG 88 of the free graphics) that had a mix of requests, one of which was for "education/back to school" images. Well, it seems like people are still looking for back to school content so we figured we'd do up a special page just for all of you who requested and to those of you who were thinking it but never requested. Since school is almost near we decided to go more generic students so that it could work for school year round or for something else. Hope these help out and to all of you heading back to school. Sucks to be you.

The Free images should be up sometime this weekend or by Monday.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

France is sharing and showing the love...

...and all we would like to say Merci beaucoup! With hundreds of new members from France it really makes us feel good that our content is attracting so many new people from various regions around the world ( 80 countries and territories so far!). The reason we single out France is that it is the third largest member base next to Canada and the United States.

Much of the traffic from France has been generated from a great designer blog/site. So, for all of our French speaking members from Canada and abroad, please check out this great designer blog www.all-for-design.com .

We also know that this connection to All-for-design.com, is somehow related to our exposure with the amazing netdiver.net designer blog which as been getting us much more international exposure than ever before. We highly recommend visiting www.netdiver.net every day. the content on this site is truly amazing and inspirational.

We certainly welcome any and all blog links. Please let people know about us. We are keen to build our members and continue to provide amazing free content until we launch this site.... which will happen within this year we promise. Also, the free images will remain even after we launch so no need to download everything. Also, upon site launch the searching capability will be active in the site.

Thanks again to all those who share the love and post blogs and links to us. It is sincerely appreciated!

Free Images: You can count on us.

Don't worry we've got your number. But, we only have 24 for this week for free. The rest will be available after launch. We've actually got up to 100 of these numbers. While I was at the How Conference in Austin Texas... while everyone else was on lunch break I went out into the crazy heat wave and went to an empty parking lot and took 100 captures of these numbers. I hope you enjoy and appreciate the blood, sweat and tears that went into these slick numbers. I almost passed out from the heat.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: A request mix

We had a few different requests last week so here are some items that we hope can help out.

One request was for an image of a senior having fun and playing games. We've provided a few angles and even a senior dog that might work with your theme. Some fitness "in studio" were also requested as well as some some education shots. I hope these images find their way into a solution to your projects. Enjoy this weeks free images. They should be posted by Monday.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Chicks, dudes, buds and bones

Here are some swanky illustrations that have some style and sizzle. All of this weeks free images are slick, trendy and all-round amazing characters that will make any of your projects pop! Enjoy these and show us what you used them in. If we like what we see we'll feature you in our Hero's section. The images will be up soon... early next week at the latest.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Flower power

Note: This weeks free images may be a touch late and into early next week. We apologize for the delay but they will be up shortly. They are certainly worth the wait. Here is a sneak peek of the free images "Flower power".




It is funny that images of flowers can still be so powerful. For years they have probably been the most common thing shot for stock and personal photos. Yet, somehow there are always new angles, perspectives and ideas that can be used with flowers. They seem to be timeless and can be used in any project in any type of business. It is a perfect natural beauty that will always bring a smile to your face. We are smiling from ear to ear with this weeks free images. If you like these, just wait until the launch! There are plenty more where these came from! We have flowers with every colour background available, in various locations from outdoors to households. We even have living flowers and dead flowers. Also for all the motion graphic users we have amazing HD time-lapse footage of flowers blooming.... which, we might upload as a sneak peek later next week that will knock your socks off. All in all we hope you enjoy all 28 free samples this week.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

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Free Images: Pictures that will "move" you.

This week's free images are photos that will move you. But, these are not your typical moving photos. These photos tell stories of our current times. Overspending, debt, foreclosure, the toll it takes on the kids when you have to pick up and move or maybe the angle is wicked new destinations and new adventrues. The image is there for you to make it work.

We've been asked from several people to get some free shots that didn't have the "Typical real estate" stigma of person standing with a sold sign in the background. They wanted something more real, more touching and also more with less. I think we delivered. I hope you all think so too. Sign in or register to see and access all 24 free images.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Kinda neat... My kid digs it and I dig it too.

As much as I hated the 3D dancing baby of the 90's, I almost find it hard to believe how much of a fan I am of this video by Evian water for "EvianBabies"
I think the thing that made my day is that I was watching this video with my 9 month baby girl who was sitting on my lap smiling, giggling and bouncing as the babies roller skated away. We had to watch it a couple of times for her to have her fix... but I'm sure she'll be back for more later.

This video directed by Michael Gracey and developed by ad agency http://www.eurorscg.com

Hero > Quy Luong

Meet Quy! One of our creative heroes for www.Stock-Archive.com! We've known Quy since 1992 and he has been whipping up amazing creative concoctions for us over the past few years. Quy is Multi-talented and super-creative. He illustrates in traditional pen and ink, on the computer and is now messing around with some 3D. While this guy's fulltime gig is a Gov-Job, he still finds time to work with us to produce amazing content and is also working on our monthly comic strip that will launch along with the site. If you are looking for a freelance designer/illustrator, talk to this guy. He is your man!

Visit his site at www.graphicq.com

Hey Quy.... where is my Christmas card from last year? Still waiting!

Free Images: Butterflies and beauties

Next week's free upload will be "Butterflies and beauties". The content should be up early next week (Week of July 6).

From time to time we get people requesting some images. We'd love to be able to get every request out to each of you, but time, (lack thereof) kinda stops that from happening. We do however from time to time randomly select from the list of member requests in order to help out as best we can. One recent request by one of our members was for Butterflies. It seemed rather urgent, so, we spent the weekend and gathered a variety of styles and formats for this person and hope these images will help with what they were looking for. We also think these will give you some great possibilities with your projects too! There are Vector images, Raster images, Raster images with clipping paths and some HD clips with butterflies.... so go nuts!

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

SA is flying with Twitter!

Time to spread your wings and fly with StockArchive on Twitter.

A great way to keep up to date on industry events, free content uploads, some shameless promotion, industry buzz and of course the official site countdown!

So please do follow us on Twitter. Fly with StockArchive on Twitter now!

Events : This is "HOW" we do it.

So in a last minute attempt, we somehow managed to get a booth spot at the HOW Conference [ www.howconference.com ], get an airline ticket... with that ticket being the last seat to Austin Texas and even managed to get a room in a hotel that was supposed to be "all booked up". Luck was certainly on our side for this one. Talk about procrastinating! It should be a great event. We were hoping to have the site up in time for the How event... but, it looks like we are most likely launching sometime in July. Some fine tuning still to do before we take the reins off and let this wild stallion go free. If you are planning on attending the HOW event then please come visit us at our booth. See you there!

Free Images: Red, white and blue with a twist of rock and roll.

Seeing as July 4th is right around the corner we figured some of these odd... yet intriguing and somewhat patriotic images might find a place in your concepts. We didn't go too crazy with "all" the images we selected. We chose images that had a little unique edge to them and yes... some nice plane-jane very safe shots that your clients will want. We are in Austin Texas right now at the How design Conference http://www.howconference.com so we gotta run!

To anyone who was at the How designers conference in Austin and was talking to the "blond" guy in the booth... Take a close look at the rocker with the black hair. Yea that is me. Not afraid to put practice what we preach at Stock-archive.com. Happy July 4th to our friends in the United States.

Events: FITC 2009 - Stock-Archive.com / Victory Arts produced the video again!

Ooops we did it again. Just finished the video that we produced for the FITC 2009 [ www.fitc.ca ] conference in Toronto. This event was huge and much larger than last year. It certainly lead to some good times for sure! We were thrilled to be asked back again to capture and cut the video for FITC Toronto 2009. Essentially our mandate was to cover the event and produce a highlight video that pretty much mashes together 4 days of amazing speakers into a 3 minute video of the event along with its parties, the presentations and the amazing "Get a Job" event. The challenge for us this year was how do we make it look different than last years video. This year the theme was "Outside the lines", Joshua Davis [ http://www.joshuadavis.com ] created the 2009 theme for FITC this year, We wanted to compliment the creative idea but also give it our own little edge. Instead of giving it a slick "glossy" production value we decided to keep it a little more "gritty" and "raw" in style and flavour.... we think it worked out just fine. Check it out for yourself.

Also note the many motion graphic and audio stock elements by [ www.Stock-Archive.com ] within the video. A little shameless promo/Sneak peek.... yea we know, but hey, if you got it flaunt it.

FITC Toronto 2009 - Highlight Reel from FITC on Vimeo.

So, Hats off to the Stock-Archive.com crew [ www.Stock-Archive.com ] and a special thanks to the team at Victory Arts [ [ www.victoryarts.com ]
]for the amazing work on the project; Will, Masayo, Ken, Bryan, Kyle and Anton, Fly, Mike for their help on location and in post production.

Hero > Jamie Muntean

You like motion graphics? We do too! We also are big fans of our next featured Hero. If there is ever a need for quality and speed, this guy has it all. Meet Jamie Muntean, this guy is a magician when it comes to motion graphics and animation. Trained in Animation, Jamie quickly picked up on After Effects and became an amazing motion graphic designer and has been working in the UK, Ottawa, Montreal and with clients all around the world. We've had the pleasure of working with Jamie and he seriously had to be one of the nicest... and most creative guys we've ever worked with. Passionate and dedicated, this is a guy you want working on your next project. For sure check out his reel here or on his site : www.thesideproject.ca

Free images: Creative block.

Ever get one of those days when your designing something and you have a massive a creative block? Happens to me all the time. I typically just go for a walk, chill or sometimes I just do some creative mish-mashing to reformat my mind. Well, this week I was somewhat "creatively blocked" while selecting the free images. So, I put two and two together and just banged out the free images by mashing them together, thus, making the free images and generating some new content for SA. Ugly? Yea maybe... but there is a use for it. Maybe alone they might not do much for ya, but, I think putting them into a pattern like you see above might make for a cool background or hopefully will inspire you to do something cool with them. If you do.... show us. we'll profile you and what you did.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

A Sneak Peek: HD motion clips: Vicky

Besides shooting stills and creating illustrations... we've also been busy creating some wild motion graphic HD clips. While we've got a batch of amazing "Line Works", "Motion Masks" and a bunch of other animated clips, we have also been producing precision based HD clips that use steady cam, dolly and Jib arm to capture shots. We even got a bunch of Raw shots that are just hand held, gritty and show the reality of this crazy world.

This mini movie was a tribute to our camera named "Vicky". This batch of Royalty Free stock clips was shot in one car ride home by the "Vice Admiral", (our D.O.P.) Vice, went home with the camera, shot clips on his way home, ate some dinner, neglected his girlfriend and worked until 3AM and came in the next day ( at 8:00AM I might add ) with this mini movie that showcases what his "typical drive home" is like everyday. As you can see we are shooting content all the time. There are no real work hours here... we shoot when we see things or when we are inspired... not just during regular work hours. Above and beyond the call of duty Sir Vice.... Nice work!

Free Images: Anime Illustrations... aged to perfection!

F.Y.I. > The free images will be up around Wednesday.... but this is what will be up. Check back soon.

This week, we've got an amazing set of illustrations for everyday use. Cool, clever and stylish. Why use a photo when you can just go with some wild anime style illustrations for your typical business or lifestyle shots. One of "Our Heroes", Quy Luong (Featured in the next week or two...produced these fine illustrations for www.Stock-Archive.com about 4 years ago. It is amazing how long we've been building content and just starting to get it out there. Hey if you love what you do... do it. We know these illustrations will be super useful. Enjoy!

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Hero > Kenn Taylor

Who is this guy? ...Kenn Taylor. Don't forget it. We've had the honour of watching this guy grow from an intern with whacky ideas into an amazing professional photographer with stunning concepts and serious attention to detail. www.Stock-Archive.com had the pleasure of working with Kenn for about 3 years now. He is an amazing photographer and we support him, his vision and his ability to capture great photos. Any production could greatly benefit from this guy and his talents. Hire the guy for a gig if you get the chance. Check him out at www.kenntaylorphotography.com

Free Images: A walk down memory lane

Every now and then it is nice to get away from the hustle and bustle and go for a walk down the street, deep into the forest, or just stroll down memory lane. This weeks free images are a medley of those types of moments. Simple, yet aw-inspiring. We dig the images and don't have much else to say as these images seem to be quite happy with the silence, calm and serenity that surround them.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

More human spirit. Thank you Jen!

Talking about "Human Spirit".... One of our good friends and amazing photographer Jennifer Scrivens ( See Our heroes ) went back to NYC for her holiday and just sent us an image because she said she was thinking of us. I support it, support the image and support her for being awesome. Thanks Jen. Love the shot. You just inspired me to take some cool shots today on urban letters and numbers.

Dig it.

Free images: A tribute to "Human spirit"

Sorry for being late with the Free images! I bury my nose every day in my work. When I was younger (Age not disclosed), I worked about 14-16 hours every day including weekends. Now, I still pretty much work the same amount of hours but somehow am able to do three times the amount of work...( not that it is a good thing ) ... but I find it interesting how strong the human spirit can be when you are working on something you love to do. Things are different now as I have a little munchkin that I adore and am trying to spend as much time with her juggling two businesses at the same time, one that barely brings in enough money to live while the other (This one) funnels any, all and even borrowed money to build Stock Archive. Why we give stuff away for free is a very good question .... especially, when we are always on the brink of pure exhaustion. How do we do it? I honestly can't quite tell you but, my philosophy is to always work on something that gets you excited, working with what you've got, work with people who get your vision, have patience... lots of it.... and just when you feel like it is all going to fall apart, keep pulling on some good-old-fashioned "Human spirit" from others that can pull it all into focus. Seriously I'm dead tired! But it is interesting where you can pull energy or inspiration from. From family, a good friend and his son, a great neighbor, a special pet or even people you don't know who are willing to help you out. So, some how every week (For 79 weeks now) I somehow am able to find an extra two hours of energy to source, find and prep the free images for the developer to setup the page and upload the Free images for you all. I sincerely hope you all enjoy the images because that right now is the best reward I could ever ask for. I'm one tired papa.

Speaking of feeding off some "Human spirit"... I'm off to go play with my little kid for a while and tuck her into bed....And, then get back to work. The kid is cool and inspires me to push on. That good karma should give me at least another 4 hours till midnight and then I'll feed her again and we all can get some shuteye.


We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

We're dead meat!

YUP! We are dead meat alright. We know thousands of you are coming to get your free images this week and they are not up yet! Yikes.... I now know what it feels like to have a bulls-eye painted on your back.... So for that we are sorry. We do however have a great excuse... one that we think you will forgive us for. We have been so busy testing the site and getting the content ready for the launch that we didn't have time to get the Free content up for this week yet. Now, it is coming and should be up this week. You'll also be happy to know that even once we launch the Free site will still be there for you to get and use as part of our promotional campaign. When is the actual launch? Great question! We don't want to give an exact date but it is very soon. We are in the final testing stage and have about another 20,000 stock elements to prep.

Thanks for your patience... please check back at the end of the week for the Free images for this week.

Cheers.

New meaning to Skate or Die.

Pretty much one of the coolest skate videos I've seen in a longtime.... totally explosive and mellow at the sametime. You'll catch our drift once you watch it. This new UNKLE video directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. Pretty slick. keep in mind the footage is in HD. We could have attached a Youtube link but this needs to be seen in HD so just let it load then watch! Patience dude... it will be worth it.

POW!

Heaven (Fully Flared Intro Video Remix)
Uploaded by UNKLE_UK - Explore more music videos.

Silhouettes are hot (pink)...

... if you want them to be!

Feel free to change the colour to anything you want if Pink isn't your colour. We just make em... you do what you want with them. These silhouettes are a fine mix of business and pleasure. They show the seriousness of big business and they also show the playful side of employees wasting company time. Download and start wasting some company time yourself. All files are vector EPS format so you can import into Adobe Illustrator, photoshop, Flash or After Effects with ease.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go towww.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: Nature

Who wants to stay indoors on the long weekend! Go outside and hang out with mother nature.

This week we thought we'd go all "National Geographic" for the Free image selection. Inspired by the sunny days, bird songs and the gentle breeze outside. This week we dipped into our nature archive of images and pulled out some great shots we think will be useful in your creative process. If you don't have an idea for them yet you can easily work an angle around these images. If you are looking for more nature / insects images, you can also go back to page 37 to get some more if needed.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Free Images: MESSY is the new CLEAN

This week we thought we'd share some of the images we are using in a project we are working on. These brainstorming ideas, scribbles and rough drawings are just perfect for our video and could certainly find a place in one of your projects. Keeping the quality on the "Bad" setting sometimes gives you a "Cool" look. These messy scribbles and rough drawings have a certain something special to them. In Photoshop just try Overlay or Multiply to these images in your project and you'll suddenly see the image just come alive.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com

Let's just call it art. [ for now ]

The word "Art" and me never really got along. Not a fan of art but always admired design. Hence why I got into the field. I'm still trying to come to terms with the whole "Art" thing. Always hated when people called me an artist. I'm a designer, a creative director, we take photos.... then people will tell me "You're an artist". Maybe they are right. But maybe they are wrong. Who knows, who cares. This weeks "Works of art" / free images are a collaboration of our team, some computers and cameras.

What inspired this weeks free images was a screw up with our HDR compositing software. It came out with some weird, yet interesting effects (see the ghetto blaster shot). So, instead of trashing the images we thought they'd make a nice addition to the archive. While we only had a few HDR image screw-ups... it inspired us to do some monster mash-ups of our own. So maybe, the computer and software is the real artist in the end. It created the movement. We just rolled with it.

We now have over 2000 free promotional images available to pre-registered users. Once we launch we will have over 60,000 images, illustrations, motion, audio and flash elements to choose from. Our loyal pre-registered users will get amazing promotional offers once the site launches. To pre-register, go to www.Stock-Archive.com