http://diaryofasmartchick.com A smart's girl's inner world Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was just reading an article in a design magazine about a very unique design approach that has been taken by a Japanese mental health clinic located in Tokyo. The design uses a variety of different tricks that would likely confuse the mind. For example, there are doors located all ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/03/can-mental-health-patients-be-aided-by-hidden-rooms/ When I first moved to San Francisco, the phrase "hella" was everywhere. It hadn't yet reached the rest of the nation so it sounded foreign and strange. To be honest, I still think it's a little bit weird when people use hella (or worse, hecka) to describe something. Nevertheless, I've ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/03/how-to-make-hella-an-official-number/ Sometimes I browse through the instant movies that are available on Netflix and I don't find anything at all worth watching. Sometimes I start a movie and get bored a few minutes into it. A lot of times I keep a movie on in the background while doing something else ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/03/smartchick-watches-echo-of-murder/ As I mentioned before, I'm one of the lucky 300 bloggers participating in Blog It Forward, an idea launched by SFGirlByBay. We're all writing about what inspires us personally. We're each being introduced by the blog before us (thanks to my intro blog, Diary of a Budget Fashionista!!) and we're ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/03/100-things-that-inspire-me/ 3D printing is something that is starting to take off in certain industries. It provides a way for you to work on creative projects that may be far more interesting and easy-to-understand than working on your computer screen might be. It also lets you create cool prototypes that can entice ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/invest-in-a-3d-printer-make-your-own-cool-shoes/ Way back in the mid 1980's, the city of Lima was about to do something progressive with green transportation. They were going to build an electric train. Unfortunately, the project never really took of. For all of these years, the ruins of the project have just been sitting there. They've ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/lima-gets-free-green-park-where-once-was-only-trash/ I started crocheting at Thanksgiving and have learned that this is a terrific art form that you can use to make almost anything. However, it would not occur to me to crochet a yurt. It did, however, occur to artist Kate Pokorny who is planning to do exactly that and ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/ambitious-project-artist-crochets-a-yurt/ I read through a bunch of t-shirt and fashion blogs, partially just because they're interesting and partially because I want to stay on top of this news for updating the blog over at Edgi Clothing (where I write about sexy tee shirts and other related topics). While doing that reading, ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/fashionsentz-branding-clothing-with-skincare-and-fragrances/ Over the years, we've heard so many people complain that the Internet is bad for our children. People aren't reading enough books anymore, they say. Kids are writing in txt. And I've always pretty much thought it was hog wash. Now there's some science to back up my feelings. A recent ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/the-internet-is-making-readers-out-of-all-of-us/ The image above is a poster from artist Justin Perricone. It's the first in a series designed to show you what's in the food that you're eating. For this particular poster, he took all of the ingredients that are in a Ham and Cheese Pizza Pocket and arranged them into ... http://diaryofasmartchick.com/2010/02/how-to-use-tag-clouds-to-learn-more-about-what-youre-eating/