THE BLACK AMAZON | Early 1900s Ella Williams who prefers to be call by her showbiz name Mme Abomah was once the world`s tallest hot and beautiful lady in the late 1800`s and early 1900`s. She was reputed to be 7ft 6inch giantess. Though she was born in South Carolina in USA, her show managers claims she was born In Dahomey (now Republic of Benin).

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i am really sick of this “if you don’t disclose all these private things about you to every stranger on the internet, you must be cis, white, straight, able-bodied, and mentally healthy” mentality that tumblr has.

it’s like… despite what so many of us are working to subvert (sometimes the same people making assumptions, absurdly enough), you still have this mental image of that as the default state of humanity. and unless we state that we deviate from this false “norm”, it’s assumed that we fall under it.

and it’s making it so that people are forced into oversharing and oversharing becomes normal. you don’t have any right to know these things unless i really, truly am comfortable with/want to share them. not everyone is comfortable with disclosing the private details of their lives, and you seeing that desire for privacy, making assumptions, and attacking them is fucked up.

you wouldn’t expect someone you met at school to tell you all these things. you wouldn’t expect your sister’s boyfriend to tell you all these things. you don’t have a right to that knowledge, and being on the internet doesn’t change it.

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Don’t waste time wondering whether or not your ideas are creative

Being able to determine whether or not an idea is worth your time and energy is difficult to do. As far as I can tell: nobody had been able to perfect the art of evaluating ideas.

I can’t predict how successful my ideas will be, but even well known creative geniuses, the Einsteins and Edisons and Jobs of history, have been known on occasion to reject ideas that later went on to be remarkable ideas. They equally made big bets on ideas that flopped.

Nobody really has this ability, despite what the world may have you believe.

Creative ideas are different by definition, it makes sense that we would struggle to effectively evaluate their potential when we first encounter them.

In 1858, for example, then president of the Linnean Society of London, Thomas Bell, boldly stated: “The year which has passed has not been marked by any of those striking discoveries which at once revolutionize the department of science.” Except that year was the same one Charles Darwin first published his theory of evolution and natural selection in. Bell failed to see how revolutionary Darwin’s could revolutionize the world, yet it went on to do exactly that.

Before he dreamed up a radical way to shift the assembly line into high gear, Henry Ford had the idea to create a commercial rubber plantation in the Amazon jungle. The business failed miserably. Despite what we might believe about Ford as a result of his historic success in the automotive industry, he too was prone to putting his time and energy into bad ideas.

Steve Jobs maybe best known as a creative genius for his work on the iPhone, but his history is littered with mistakes, from one of the worlds first palm computing platforms (the Apple Newton) to a mostly failed attempt at consumer computers (NeXT).

Everyone we tout as being a creative great stumbled their way through bad ideas in order to get the lucky few that made their lives or careers so grand. Their ability to pick out the great ideas from the not-so-great ideas is on-par with yours and mine.

There is no trick to picking great ideas: you either recognize their feasible value or you take a leap.

Of course experience and realm knowledge can help make decisions on which ideas are worthwhile and which are not somewhat easier, but even then you are relying on what you know you know and less of what you don’t know you don’t know. Creative ideas are difficult to gauge because they are new and different. It makes sense that the best creative thinkers among us are often dabbling around with multiple ideas. They might seem confident in their ideas (and, at some level, that confidence is remarkably important), but they are guessing just as much as you or I are.

Try not to worry too much about whether or not your ideas will be successful (I know I’m terrible at guessing).

The only real way to stumble on the best ideas is to have many ideas.

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"I moved to New York to make music, and I thought I’d have done more by now. But I struggle with discipline. If I have a moment of inspiration, it’s easy to ride that. I’ll have the flash of a verse, or a chorus, or a melody, and I’ll sit up all night writing it out. But if I can’t finish it in one sitting, and I have to come back to it the next day, then it starts to feel like homework, and I just can’t do it. I have a huge collection of songs that are a quarter finished."

Canadian photographer Sarah Anne Johnson captures impassioned moments, expressing the emotion behind them by painting and etching directly onto her prints. In her latest series, “Wanderlust,” the artist captured sexual intimacy, photographing partners as well as individuals. Johnson’s view of eroticism comes across subtly. None of her models appear to be performing for the camera. They seem so at ease that one begins to wonder how Johnson gained access into her subjects’ most private experiences. The abstract embellishments she adds to her photos float like auras around the figures, as if the psychic connection between them has become tangible for us to witness. See more on Hi-Fructose. 

"So many of my friends seem happy with who they are, but I’m just not there yet."