The one where Jas starts a newsletter
Welcome to my experimental postcard. A space where notes, life updates, and behind the scenes all collide. It’s part lab note, part love letter to curiosity. A slower, offline way of sharing, so I can be more intentional with where my time and energy go. <3
TRAINING LOG
100 Rounds In
A few months ago I hit my 100th boxing class. I can run the 6, string combos together, and honestly? I’m hooked. Pad time built a mind–body connection that flows straight into the bag. My shoulder has complaints, sure, but my golf swing says thank you.
FROM THE STUDIO
Pearls on the Green
I asked MidJourney to imagine what would happen if pearls and golf had a head-on collision in the fashion world.
The outcome? Golf gear reimagined as statement pieces with a “too glam to swing” attitude.
For the process nerds: I stacked settings with a moodboard code to nudge the weirdness dial higher. The punchline? It’s surprisingly wearable, if you’re the sort of person who’d take their pearls to the driving range.
Women’s golf fashion
--chaos 10 --ar 9:16 --v 7 --stylize 750
--p wjio82d
TOOL SPOTLIGHT
The aiPaper mini E-ink Tablet
I’m a compulsive notetaker, the kind with drawers filled with notebooks, projects, and midnight scribbles that made sense once upon a REM cycle. Pen and paper has always been my ritual… until now.
Enter the aiPaper Mini: a pocket-sized e-ink notebook wired up with GPT.
Why does it matter? Because distraction-free is sexy again. No juggling dopamine-hungry notifications, just a single, focused space. It’s the calm of an e-ink journal fused with an AI assistant that actually remembers things. Old-school ritual meets future brain, shrunk to pocket size.
Here’s my quick take:
✨ What I Loved
📓 Paper feel, minus the paper. The Mobius screen tech nails the illusion, writing is smooth, tactile.
🖋️ The calligraphy pen. Easily my favorite add-on. It makes even chicken-scratch look like it had ambitions.
🎒 Pocket-friendly portability. Small enough to disappear in my bag, and for once I actually take a “notebook” everywhere..
💡Front light brilliance. Total upgrade. Now I can journal in bed, on planes, or in whatever dimly lit corner life throws me.
🧠 GPT, built in. A thought partner right inside my notes, instant brainstorming without leaving the page.
⚡ What Felt Clunky
✏️ Stylus rattle. The pen jiggles like it’s had too much coffee.
🙅 Writing-to-GPT hiccups. Handwriting recognition is moody. Typed queries still win.
📑 Homepage hostage. “Meetings” is parked there forever, even though I never use it. No rearranging allowed.
📂 Folders fumble. Organization feels clunky compared to Supernote’s smoother system.
Best use so far: I’ve actually been journaling more, mostly because this thing is always in my bag. And tossing AI into brainstorming sessions? Weirdly delightful.
🎯 Verdict: It’s staying in my daily mix for now. I’ll probably test another e-ink device down the road, because this feels like the opening swell of distraction-free, creativity-first tools.
NOTES FROM THE MULTIVERSE
Immersive Inspiration
Meow Wolf might be the most brain-bending interactive art installation out there. You could hit every location in the country twice and still feel like you’ve only scratched the neon surface.
It’s chaos with intention: equal parts fever dream and Hogwarts-for-adults. Wandering through, you can’t help but marvel at the sheer audacity of imagination it takes to build these worlds.
The kicker? Each Meow Wolf hides its own storyline, wrapped in a scavenger hunt tough enough to humble even the fiercest game-night gladiators. You walk out rewired, like creativity has been upgraded in your operating system.
Field trip, anyone?
Highly recommend visiting one of their locations:
Santa Fe, NM - House of Eternal Return
Las Vegas, NV - Omega Mart
Denver, CO - Convergence Station
Grapevine, TX - The Real Unreal
Houston, TX - Radio Tave
PROJECT + LIFE UPDATE
JasCore 🤖 is live
I just refreshed the project page over on byjas.xyz.
JasCore is basically a digital playground: multi-window, custom soundboards, even a virtual PC stuffed with classics. Finder, MacPaint, Minesweeper, a first-gen iPod, nostalgia and chaos running right in your browser.
It’s also where I’m sharing the things that keep me going like the current songs on repeat, videos worth a double take, and a sprinkle of odd little experiments along the way.
Meanwhile, I’m back in the studio with clay, where pottery keeps teaching me the same thing AI does: control is mostly an illusion, but flow? Flow is everything.
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