This is my dad, James Lerner. He’s 68 years old and is an architect. Recently, I found thousands of 35mm slides deep in a closet in his office. NOBODY has ever seen any of them, and I saw one photo in a random box and I was hooked. I’m trying to get the VSCO scholarship grant to make a digital archive of these photos, and hopefully have a gallery show for him.
Imagine feeling like no one wants to see or isn’t interested in photos from your youth. I couldn’t imagine feeling that. Maybe some of you guys might care, or might be curious to see what some of these photos look like.
Optica is a clean and simple theme with tons of customizations. It sounds impossible, but it’s true. Layouts, colors, fonts: Everything is up for grabs. Optica can transform into anything you want—as long as what you want is a blog.
Overview
Clean, versatile theme for any kind of media
Grid or column layout
Customizable colors, fonts, links, and all that other good stuff
Documentation
Header Image
If your avatar is a picture of your face, your header image is what you see when you close your eyes. It should say, “yeah, this is who I am.” Or at least what your blog’s about. If you don’t like the way the header image looks on your blog, you can play with the “sliding header” and “stretch header image” settings or turn it off altogether.
Avatar
Since your avatar is the most familiar part of your Tumblr appearance, we thought it’d be nice to include it on your blog. But if you don’t like it, that’s cool too. You can hide it from your blog settings and it’ll only be used on the Dashboard.
Blog title design
There’s something like 12 trillion different combinations of fonts and colors. Play around until you land on one that’s all yours.
Background and accent colors
There are no wrong colors.
Disqus shortname
Built in. Easy and fun!
Google Analytics
No code tweaks. Just plug in your Analytics ID and you’re off to the races.
