Type I designed for @fkatwigs@theweeknd new video Tears in the Club. I hand drew each letter in Procreate using mainly the airbrush and eraser tool. Honored to have been a part of this one ⚡️ Go scope the video on FKA Twigs YouTube channel - directed by the incredible @agjnyc 3D Artist: @whois.sim
Type designer: @nitze
Type Animator: @jasonyuandesign
Type Modelor: @lumar_isa
Editor: @chiaochen
96 days straight of debilitating dizziness, vertigo, nausea, tinnitus, and everything else that comes with dealing with that. Going in for my third surgery right now to undergo a labyrinthectomy in order to remove my malfunctioning vestibular system. No more hearing but that was already at the point of no return. Once the damaged side is removed my brain will finally be able to lock onto the clean signal from my healthy side and I will finally be able to begin the recalibration process. What a fuckin’ ride.
This was my first time back on a snowboard in real terrain in over 15 years. Can’t thank my guy @aspenrainweaver enough for setting us up A-Z for those few weeks last season. And even more so for inspiring and pushing me to get some tricks back under my feet. What’s crazy is we had a trip fully booked for Mammoth and I was suppose to get on a flight the morning after my injury. I was just getting started. Ill be back when I am suppose to 🫡 godspeed 🤘 shot by: @tacovega@captain_oldgreg@aspenrainweaver
Post surgery and the Maui doctors got it all wrong. Dr. Hadley on Oahu right after surgery said my ear drum still had a hole, my middle ear bones were severely damaged, particularly the stapes bone which was completely shattered. That bone is responsible for transmitting sound through the oval window which is the seal to the deep ear cochlea and vestibular canals. He said that membrane was also completely ruptured and open leaking all its fluid.
He did his best to reconstruct the stapes bone, reposition the others and graft the oval window ruptures with cartilage he harvested from the outside of my ear and blood he took from my ankle.
He said before surgery I should feel improvement immediately once things are not leaking and sealed but after getting in there he wasn’t so sure.
Still zero hearing and I currently feel the vertigo dizziness and tinnitus just as intensely as prior to surgery, if not more.
He said the damage was so substantial that it may take much longer for my body to hold it all down, heal and adjust. He said that an injury like that would not have been able to heal on its own and the surgery couldn’t have waited any longer for it to have a chance of holding. Dr. Crows office on Maui said the opposite of literally all of that which is crazy.
Now we just have to wait and see if the solid work Dr. Hadley got done holds and I begin to improve. God willing it does. 🧬
Couldn’t be more grateful for home n life 💙 Some moments before I cranked my head. As of now I am fully deaf in one ear with worsening symptoms of vertigo and dizziness over the last 2 weeks. Even walking is really challenging… It feels like gravity has you by the shoulders and is physically pushing you around. The doctors say I have a complicated injury with my vestibular canal (brains balancing mechanism) and I need to see a specialty surgeon on Oahu to address my case. Just getting through all the red tape to get to him so fingers crossed. It has been radical ⚡️ My vision and balance hasn’t stabilized for a second since it happened. A surreal experience. When life feeds you humble pie you get real grateful REAL fast. Onward 🫶
I managed to snipe a few from this last Greenbush swell. Dream come true to get to score out there. That wave is psycho…😮💨 Big thanx to @damea_dorsey@mauimarcc for the clips and of course @siloinasurfcharter for having me on the best boat in the Ments. Also rocking the best shorts in the game @efwun
