For that reason we have come up with some cool looking styles for you to wear while out and about. We get so many compliments on these and you will too! These are proudly made in the USA using 100% cotton fabric. They are 2 layered so that you can slip in a filter for extra protection. The soft elastic ear straps are comfortable and not so tough on the ears. They can also be adjusted for a tighter fit by simply moving the silicone elastic locks forward or back.

This is our "Snow Skull" face-mask

Our "Sugar Skull" face-mask

Our "Day Of The Dead"

Our "Vendetta"

To some, wearing a mask might be inconvenient and/or a violation of their rights of freedom. However, in my opinion I think that as a bit childish and just a tiny bit selfish, just a tiny bit though lol and I wish I could give them each a hug and make them feel better, but can't as we also gotta maintain a distance of 6ft from one another. Have an awesome day ;-) 

Check out our complete variety of styles!

I'm sure a vast majority of you have experienced it. Some of us even get caught up in it twice or 3 times more often than the rest. That passion right there, be it negative or positive, is the fuel that we use to take action and accomplish whatever task or tasks we are restless, or sleepless over.

I call that sweet lil drive right there; "Hustle Fuel" and it can be a blessing or a curse sometimes. Blessing because it has the ability to make one never get bored in life and be able to take action and love what you do, and curse when I don't sketch out an idea or thought out thoroughly so that I can rest and leave for later, often times I can lose sleep or even dream about it.

That is the inspiration for this design and why it is Called "Hustlers Don't Sleep, (They Just Take Long-ass Blinks)".

Like all other designs it starts out with a very light sketch or doodle in one of my sketchbooks.

Words are written out as if they were dancing on the page. First in a single stroke of the pencil so that the spacing is worked out, then comes the ornamental accents within them and surrounding elements.

The letters are then thickened and turned into either a script, san-serif, or a serif font. They are refined and boldened using a softer leaded pencil.

At this stage, a ballpoint pen is used to finalize the drawing and prepare it to be scanned.

The final vector art created in Adobe Illustrator using the OGABEL filter (:

Here is the printed "Hustlers Don't Sleep" tee shirt available for purchase on our site shopogabel.com

It is also believed that the original sets of that time were very expensive, hand painted, original works of art and were affordable only by the wealthy. From China they spread to India, Persia and then eventually to Egypt during the era controlled by Mamluk. From Egypt they made their way up through the Italian and Iberian Peninsulas into 14th century Europe.

Eventually cheaper methods of producing were discovered and they became more affordable so that everyone can enjoy playing them. Although, the most popular deck used today is the French 52 deck, using Hearts, Tiles (diamonds, Clovers (clubs), Pikes (spades). There is also the Italian, Spanish, German and other versions that use symbols such as cups, coins, clubs, swords, shields, acorns, leaves, or roses along with suits.

The history of the "Suicide King" which is sometimes called the "King of Hearts" is somewhat debate-able.

During the middle ages the King of Hearts card showed a king yielding a battle axe up over his head.

By 1800's the King of hearts had lost the battle axe and picked up a sword that disappeared behind his head. It also becomes the only four handed suited card when the double-ended version was introduced.

Below is the finished sketch of my version of the Suicide King ready to be scanned and repainted digitally in Adobe Photoshop.

Here is the final digital illustration ready to produce or to be printed on shirts and accessories.

The word “evil” makes six appearances in the text, beginning with an accusation: “You are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that.” In the paragraphs that follow, the recipient’s alleged lovers get the worst of it. They are described as “filthy dirty evil companions” and “evil playmates,” all engaged in “dirt, filth, evil and moronic talk.” The effect is at once grotesque and hypnotic, an obsessive’s account of carnal rage and personal betrayal. “What incredible evilness,” the letter proclaims, listing off “sexual orgies,” “adulterous acts” and “immoral conduct.” Near the end, it circles back to its initial target, denouncing him as an “evil, abnormal beast.”

The unnamed author suggests intimate knowledge of his correspondent’s sex life, identifying one possible lover by name and claiming to have specific evidence about others. Another passage hints of an audiotape accompanying the letter, apparently a recording of “immoral conduct” in action. “Lend your sexually psychotic ear to the enclosure,” the letter demands. It concludes with a deadline of 34 days “before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.”

“There is only one thing left for you to do,” the author warns vaguely in the final paragraph. “You know what it is.”

When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received this letter, nearly 50 years ago, he quietly informed friends that someone wanted him to kill himself — and he thought he knew who that someone was. Despite its half-baked prose, self-conscious amateurism and other attempts at misdirection, King was certain the letter had come from the F.B.I. Its infamous director, J. Edgar Hoover, made no secret of his desire to see King discredited. A little more than a decade later, the Senate’s Church Committee on intelligence overreach confirmed King’s suspicion.

Since then, the so-called “suicide letter” has occupied a unique place in the history of American intelligence — the most notorious and embarrassing example of Hoover’s F.B.I. run amok. For several decades, however, only significantly redacted copies of the letter were available for public scrutiny. This summer, while researching a biography of Hoover, I was surprised to find a full, uncensored version of the letter tucked away in a reprocessed set of his official and confidential files at the National Archives. The uncovered passages contain explicit allegations about King’s sex life, rendered in the racially charged language of the Jim Crow era. Looking past the viciousness of the accusations, the letter offers a potent warning for readers today about the danger of domestic surveillance in an age with less reserved mass media.

The F.B.I.'s entanglement with King began not as an inquiry into his sex life but as a “national security” matter, one step removed from King himself. In 1961, the bureau learned that a former Communist Party insider named Stanley Levison had become King’s closest white adviser, serving him as a ghostwriter and fund-raiser. The following year, Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved wiretaps on Levison’s home and office, and the White House advised King to drop his Communist friend. But thanks to their surveillance, the bureau quickly learned that King was still speaking with Levison. Around the same time, King began to criticize bureau practices in the South, accusing Hoover of failing to enforce civil rights law and of indulging the racist practices of Southern policemen.

‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I. (One person’s name has been obscured because The Times could not verify or disprove the claims about her.)CreditNational Archives, College Park, Maryland

This combination of events set Hoover and King on a collision course. In the fall of 1963, just after the March on Washington, the F.B.I. extended its surveillance from Levison and other associates to King himself, planting wiretaps in King’s home and offices and bugs in his hotel rooms. Hoover found out very little about any Communist subterfuge, but he did begin to learn about King’s extramarital sex life, already an open secret within the civil rights movement’s leadership.

Hoover and the Feds seem to have been genuinely shocked by King’s behavior. Here was a minister, the leader of a moral movement, acting like “a tom cat with obsessive degenerate sexual urges,” Hoover wrote on one memo. In response, F.B.I. officials began to peddle information about King’s hotel-room activities to friendly members of the press, hoping to discredit the civil rights leader. To their astonishment, the story went nowhere. If anything, as the F.B.I. learned more about his sexual adventures, King only seemed to be gaining in public stature. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed Congress, and just a few months later King became the youngest man ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

At this point Hoover decided to escalate his campaign. On Nov. 18, 1964 — 50 years ago this week — Hoover denounced King at a Washington news conference, labeling him the “the most notorious liar in the country.” A few days later, one of Hoover’s deputies, William Sullivan, apparently took it upon himself to write the anonymous letter and sent an agent to Miami, to mail the package to Atlanta.

Even now, looking at a full copy of the letter, it’s tough to puzzle out just what the bureau wanted King to do. The largest unredacted section focuses on King’s sex life, recounting in graphic language what the bureau believed it knew. Another uncovered portion of the note praises “older leaders” like the N.A.A.C.P. executive director Roy Wilkins, urging King to step aside and let other men lead the civil rights movement. And some maintain that they simply meant to push King out, not induce suicide.

Whatever it was the F.B.I. hoped King would do, they probably preferred it to happen before the Nobel ceremony, scheduled for mid-December. But King did not even see the package until after his trip to Oslo. According to his biographer David Garrow, it was King’s wife, Coretta, who first opened it, expecting to find a recording of one of her husband’s speeches. She turned the contents over to King, who assembled a group of confidants to sort out a response. As King’s closest friends and associates recalled, everyone immediately agreed the letter could only be the work of one institution: Hoover’s F.B.I.

Today it is almost impossible to imagine the press refusing a juicy story. To a scandal-hungry media, the bedroom practices of our public officials and moral leaders are usually fair game. And a sex scandal is often — though not always — a cheap one-way ticket out of public life. Faced with today’s political environment, perhaps King would have made different decisions in his personal affairs. Perhaps, though, he never would have had the chance to emerge as the public leader he ultimately became.

Luckily, in 1964 the media were far more cautious. One oddity of Hoover’s campaign against King is that it mostly flopped, and the F.B.I. never succeeded in seriously damaging King’s public image. Half a century later, we look upon King as a model of moral courage and human dignity. Hoover, by contrast, has become almost universally reviled. In this context, perhaps the most surprising aspect of their story is not what the F.B.I. attempted, but what it failed to do.

The current F.B.I. director, James Comey, keeps a copy of the King wiretap request on his desk as a reminder of the bureau’s capacity to do wrong. But elsewhere in Washington, the debate over how much the government should know about our private lives has never been more heated: Should intelligence agencies be able to sweep our email, read our texts, track our phone calls, locate us by GPS? Much of the conversation swirls around the possibility that agencies like the N.S.A. or the F.B.I. will use such information not to serve national security but to carry out personal and political vendettas. King’s experience reminds us that these are far from idle fears, conjured in the fevered minds of civil libertarians. They are based in the hard facts of history.

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Beverly Gage is a professor of American history at Yale.

This car is Part of GM's 2nd generation of the glamorous high end Impala, with its batwings and wraparound windshield and smooth lines, as well as triple round rear tail lights, it became the hottest and best selling car in the US. Somewhere around 500,000 were the total produced including sport sedan, sport coupe, 4 door sedan and out of all of those only 79,903 convertibles and this is one of them.

The 1960 Impala is a beautiful work or art.

It depicts the vices or pleasures that can very often lure a man into the grips of temptation. Gambling, alcohol and women are the three basic elements that have given this design its popularity throughout all of those years.

In our version of it we decided to add "power" (gun) and "time" to it, which somewhat makes it more relate-able to the mentality of today's young male population.

The first strokes of the pencil form the shape of a beautiful woman which is synonymous to the main and I would say the most powerful of the vices of this design. She will also be part of the clock's face in which her legs represent the hands of time.

A crosshatching technique using a 2h pencil is preferable when working on a rough idea or concept. 

You will notice that most of our preliminary art is done using this fast technique. It is a speedy way of applying and adding variable light and dark tonal shades to enhance composition and add dimension to a design idea in one or sometimes a few directions.

The idea of using the girl's legs to depict the hands of time came from our other classic design called "Time" which was released a few years ago.

Here we are drawing in the roman numerals and other detail on the clock.

The above sketch is complete and ready to be scanned into the computer and will be re-illustrated using the airbrush tool in Adobe Photoshop until it looks like what we have on the image below.

It image can be found on a few different products offered within our online store, including crewneck sweater, men's tee, and limited edition signed and canvas print.

Limited edition of 100 canvas, signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity.

I remember the first time I saw and held one of these reliable and dependable bad boys, I was in my early teens. It belonged to one of my older homies. This beautiful assault rifle with its "Russian red" stained maple wood stock is symbolic of the power many south central LA drug dealers and gang leaders portrayed and sometimes used as protection from the mid 1980's to the early 90's. To hear the thunder coming off of it as it was sometimes discharged on various occasions was highly impressive and left your ears ringing for days!

This is the preliminary sketch depicting the skull holding in his hands the assault weapon.

It's finger on the trigger ready to blast and protect.

Final sketch before it is scanned and re created in Adobe Photoshop below.

Below is the final illustration as it will adorn the front of tees and back of hoodies.

You can purchase one of these on our site www.shopogabel.com and take advantage of free shipping within the continental US.

Here are some pictures from that very important and memorable night for the whole team (November the 5th, 2016) as he gets ready to face the always dangerous, very fast, former world champ, Nonito "Filipino Flash" Donaire.

Jessie showed calmness even as his turn to walk out to the ring was nearing. His confidence level is high and the look on his face is that of someone that has trained like never before as he gets ready to warm up.  

The custom made Everlast gloves are fastened and taped up by coach Manny Robles and assistant coach Edgar. 

Younger and older Magdaleno brothers show up to the locker room and look on as he prepares and goes over drills, combos and movement with coach Manny.

A loud snap coming off of the jab, straight left and uppercut with that snap as his gloves hits the pads.

At this point Jessie's brothers notice that his hair is a bit too long and is somewhat interfering with his vision.

Older brother Diego pulls out some scissors, goes up to Jessie and gives his platinum dyed blonde locks a trim and tells him, "I don't want to see you in the ring brushing hair out of your face!"

A lil prayer and the walkout.

Official fight tee! Get it while supplies last.

Nogales Sonora, Mexico's very own Oscar Valdez co-headlined and fought alongside these other greats in the sport including; Manny Pacquiao vs Jesse Vargas (headliner), Nonito Donaire vs Jessie Magdaleno, Hiroshige Osawa (his opponent), Alexander Besputin and a few others.

Oscar lacing up and tying his shoes before warming up.

Focused and quiet, winning is the objective. It seems as though he is running various scenarios in his head, different ways of punishing and/or stopping his opponent. This will be the first defense of his hard earned WBO world title.

Here, approximately 30 mins before his bout, he is in the locker room warming up with coach Edgar and as always Mr Valdez (Dad) by his side. The rest of the team is out supporting his other stable mate Jessie "El Peligroso" Magdaleno against the tough and dangerous Nonito "Filipino Flash" Donaire. That fight is going on in the arena in front of thousands, as well as hundreds of thousands people watching from home on Top Rank Pay per view.

The snap of that uppercut! The sound of power as it hits the pads, somewhat rattles and echoes in the room. I can feel the intensity building up. Its almost time, almost ready as the final round of the previous fight ends.

It's time and we are walking out to the ring.

We wait for the signal to proceed while the opponent's introduction is going on.

At this point, Manny Robles is back from a successfully coaching of Jessie Magdaleno to get the W over Donaire and joins the team. He goes over important reminders, keys and strategies to victory.

Here we go! Fight time! Oscar Valdez vs Hiroshige Osawa in front of thousands.

This shot, was taken by world famous sports photographer Mikey Williams as Oscar stops his rival and succeeds in his title defense.

Official fight tee! Get it while supplies last.

These, by far, have become some of our friend's new favorite pair to wear and rotate throughout the week. They are lightweight, breathable and slightly slim at at the bottom for a polished modern fit, so not to feel like you are wearing your uncle's baggy, and oversized, outdated styles.

All three color-ways, Black, Grey, and Khaki are available now on the "shorts" section of our site.

The  5th pocket on each of these is the "Smart Phone" pocket. It is conveniently placed on the right hip and sized perfectly so that easily fits a big Iphone 6-plus.

Both deep side pockets are also sized just right to keep all of your hundred stacks from falling out while driving or sitting. 

We captured this video of the complete sketch from start to finish before it was scanned into the computer.

Adding detail to the legs.

Close up of detail on upper torso.

This is the final look of the sketch once it was scanned in and recreated in Adobe Photoshop.

Signed and numbered limited edition of 100 on stretched canvas. Sized accordingly knowing most of us that collect art have limited wall space. (click on image to buy)

Final design is also available on a girls soft form fitting racer tank top and vneck. Get yours before they are gone. (click on image)

A hard leaded 4h or 2h pencil is preferred when laying down the first draft (It is easier to erase light and subtle lines). Below a soft 3b pencil is being used to apply the darker tones.

The final sketch gets scanned into the computer to size at a resolution of 200 to 300 ppi depending on size of sketch. Once it is in the computer it will be re-drawn using the airbrush tool in Adobe Photoshop. The artwork below is the final digital version of the sketch. From this point it is then separated and sent over to our silk screeners where they will be printed. "Money Rose Praying Hands"

This is one of our designs that is also available in a small limited edition archival stretched canvas print to add to your collection. Only 100 canvases of this design were made. They all are individually signed and numbered and are shipped out in a nicely protected box that includes a few stickers, a coupon code and a certificate of authenticity.