hi there,
In the last days I have done some custom editing on the graphite theme from oxwall. It is still faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar from done, but it is a start.
Take a look over here;
http://greatyu.heliohost.org/ow (only use mobile web browser!)
I probably will be limited by time in the incomming days, but I will try to work on it. It is also pretty hard to modify things as the image are really small, if I make them bigger they become very blurry (not really high quality, what I can understand).
Honestly the best thing would be to create a HTML5 (and CSS3) framework. On which people can build a child theme on. HTML5 is really fast and reliable. This will require a lot of php skills. I don't have them, so I can't do anything there, sorry.
If someone is interested I can give you the theme as it is now...