MARS Theme

MARS premium Tumblr theme is a contemporary and modern design with extended appearance options by Style Hatch. You can select from the three layout modes, change your color scheme, integrate your Typekit account and customize the 70+ appearance options. Purchase MARS Have questions, need support or want to say hello? [email protected]

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MARS—Columns Layout

The latest Style Hatch theme, MARS includes three layout modes—default, wide and columns.  To highlight the columns layout, check out the MARS columns layout demo site.  The demo site also shows the flexibility of the theme with different post-type colors, background, and Typekit fonts.

Typekit fonts used: titles - Sommet Slab | body - Obliqua

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MARS

MARS premium Tumblr theme is a contemporary and modern design with extended appearance options by Style Hatch.  You can select from the three layout modes, change your color scheme, integrate your Typekit account and customize the 70+ appearance options.  Download MARS for $49!

Latest version - MARS 1.4.1 - February 20, 2013 Updated the video embed to address recent Tumblr changes. 

Multiple Layout Modes

With MARS you have the choice of three unique layout modes.  Use the default layout with 500 pixel wide posts or the wide layout with 720 pixel wide posts and both feature the floating dates and tags to the right.  If you would rather a grid of posts you can enable the columns layout mode to fill your entire browser window with posts.

Typekit Ready

Add your Typekit kit ID to the appearance options to fully control and customize the typography in the MARS theme.  Use some of the best fonts from foundries like FontFont, Adobe, P22, T-26 and Veer.  To access all of the Typekit fonts you will need a paid Typekit account, but they also offer a free account with a limited selection.

Social Features

MARS has built in support for group blogs, sharing on Facebook and Twitter, Disqus, Flickr, and sites you follow.  In the Appearances options you’ll also find 29 social profile icon links.

Customization Options

Default Layout Enables the default MARS layout with 500 pixel wide posts and floating dates and tags to the right.  Make sure you only have one layout mode checked at a time.

Wide Layout Enables the wide MARS layout with 720 pixel wide posts and floating dates and tags to the right.  The theme will use the high resolution versions of your post images to fill the 720 pixel wide post and all video posts should scale up to the larger width.  Make sure you only have one layout mode checked at a time.

Show Portrait in Description Displays a small portrait icon inside your description.

Show Group Blog Details If your site is setup as a group blog this option will list the site authors in the sidebar as well as display the author below each post.

Show Sites I Follow Displays a box on the left column showing all the sites you follow revealing 24 at a time.  

Use Smart Bold Titles When creating post titles it is ideal to add <h2> tags around the title, but the smart bold titles option will make it a bit easier to define a title for each post.  After the option is enabled just bold the first line (paragraph) of any post to turn it into a stylized title.  This option can be problematic in situations where you only bold one or two words in the first paragraph.

Images

Background Image Use this option to upload a background image for the site.  This can be used for a repeating site background or creatively behind the site title for a unique header.

Logo Image Upload a logo for to display in the sidebar above your site's title.  Try experimenting with transparent PNGs to allow the background to show through the logo.  The logo image should be less than 270 pixels wide.

Colors

Background Sets the overall site background.  This is useful if you do not have a background image selected or if you want to fade your background image to a solid color.

Sidebar Links Set the color of the link that are displayed in the sidebar.  This also effects the hover state of the pages buttons, various elements in the sidebar and link colors in the site footer.

Text, Photo, Quote, Link, Chat, Audio and Video Set the accent colors for the various post types.  This color controls the permalink triangle in the top left corner of the post, the floating date and tags, and various UI elements.  This gives you the ability to set colors for each post type, groups of post types or all post types.

Custom Text

Site Secondary Title Sets an optional secondary title below your site title.

Description Title The title above your site description.

Social Links Title Displayed above the social link icons.  If you do not want to display any icons simply remove the title.

Authors Title If you have a group blog this will set the title above the list of site authors.

Following Title Displayed above the icons showing the sites that you follow.

Twitter Title Appears above the Twitter feed as long as you have Twitter integrated with your Tumblr account.

Likes Title Displayed above the Tumblr posts that you like.

Flickr Title Appears above the four Flickr thumbnails when you have your Flickr ID set.

Footer Copyright Changes the copyright information displayed at the footer of the site.

Extensions and 3rd Party Addons

Disqus ID Add your Disqus Site Shortname to enable comments for your site.  Click here to register for a Disqus site account.  

Google Analytics ID Traction has asynchronous Google Analytics tracking built into the theme, all you need to do is add your site ID to this option.

Clicky ID For realtime tracking of who is on your site right now, goals, campaigns and Twitter monitoring add your Click ID.  Clicky does charge for their analytics and tracking, but I highly recommend it for people who are stats junkies.  Sign up for an account with Clicky. 

Flickr ID Add your Flickr ID to display four thumbnails of your most recently uploaded images.  Use http://idgettr.com to find your Flickr ID which is different than your Flickr username.

Typekit ID Add your Typekit kit ID to the appearance options to fully control and customize the typography in the MARS theme.  Use some of the best fonts from foundries likeFontFont, Adobe, P22, T-26 and Veer.  To access all of the Typekit fonts you will need a paid Typekit account, but they also offer a free account with a limited selection.  Directions on how to assign fonts are coming soon.

Tweet Count Sets the number of recent tweets to show in the right column.

Likes Count Sets the number of Tumblr liked posts to display in the right column.  The maximum like count is 10.

Social Links

Add URLs to display the following social site icons below your site description. Note: Make sure you add the full URL, including “http://”.

Behance, Cargo Collective, Delicious, Deviant Art, Digg, Dribbble, Ember, Etsy, Facebook, FFFFound, Flickr, Formspring, Forrst, Foursquare, Gowalla, Last.fm, Linked In, Rdio, Skype, Slideshare, Soundcloud, Stumbled Upon, Twitter, Vimeo, generic website link, Youtube, and your email address.

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High School Lovers

Zach Yudin just released the music video for High School Lover for his musical project Oregon Bike Trails.

“High School Lover has this great video to go along with it that totally fits the vibe of the music, kind of old school Beach Boys feeling. What’s crazy is that he’s making all of his music out of his bedroom, but he sounds so great.” —Bobby Solomon 

Listen to his other tracks on Bandcamp.

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Visit Original Link

WALLS are a band from London made up of members Sam Willis and Alessio Natalizia.

"We take our inspiration by the sense of discovery, curiosity and playful nature of our approach to making music. We have a pastoral take on the natural world, music that has a natural, unique and personal feel - utilizing the best that old / modern technology has to offer."

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We are a digital shop creating fresh and unique premium Tumblr themes. Style Hatch will be quickly evolving over the coming weeks so stay tuned.  Check out our current Tumblr themes: Backburner • Inspire Well • Nova • Savory • Transcender

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Cecil Beaton—English Photographer and Fashion designer, 1904-1980

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Friday Surf NYC

Lookbook—A moment with Eddy Du Toit

Owners Morgan Miller, Adam Rosen and Colin Moore launched the innovative store to suit a lifestyle occupied with surfing, living and working in New York City.

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Kat Samaran

Russian photographer Kat Samaran has an art of capturing her models in a seemingly motionless trance.

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Hidden Cities

Photographer Hans Bluman captures the still and quite shapes and structures of the city.

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BRAVE

New wall graphic created for the offices of McSqueezy Associates, Sydney 

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Dawn

Experimental motion by Phil Borst—IMYNDA

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Morocco & Spain - 4,000 Images in 2 Minutes

Photographer and User Interface designer Mike Matas captured condensed 1,000 miles, 2 weeks, 4,000 images into 2 minutes.  Check out Mike’s site for more videos travel videos this and his beautiful photography.

During the day he is a talented UI designer who was behind the UI for the iPad, iPhone and OS X while working at Apple.  Recently he departed Apple to work on an undisclosed project launching later this year.

Via Holiday Matinee

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New York Fashion Week - Dennis Basso - Fall 2011

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Random Conversations

Alan: Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Paige: That sounds familiar. Who said that?

Alan: I believe that it was Coco Chanel.

Paige: What an odd name.