Heathrow: Good afternoon, my name is Heathrow, and I'm a volunteer with the local Authors@Google team. We have a speaker we have today called Travis Millard, and he's done a lot of different stuff under the rubric of "Fudge Factory Comics." Relatively recently a book which you have called "Hey Fudge," published by a local publisher Narrow Books based in LA. Travis is based in Echo Park, and he has done a lot of different media work. He has done mini-comics and zines. He's done fine art;
So there are a lot of things you can do. Cesar Millan does the same thing on stage.
I hope you like it. Travis. Travis Millard: Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Thanks for having me here. I appreciate the chance to come speak here. I looked your website up last night, and you seem pretty successful. So it's an honor.
the capability of actually enhancing putting focus on a natural environment. It's called the Millau Viaduct and is by Richard Norman Foster, the British architect.
in Austerlitz, New York. And the Millay Colony is on Edna St. Vincent Millay, the poet's property. And there's actually the colony area, and then across the street is Steepletop, Edna St. Vincent Millay's house.
It survived, as I said, the Depression. It survived Millard Fillmore, the Know-Nothing party, all sorts of extraordinary political parties and subparties. And it survived 9/11.
So there are a lot of things you can do. So Cesar Millan, for example, he's taken a great deal of backlash.
So there are a lot of things you can do. So Cesar Millan, for example, uses euthanization of dogs.
Yo la vendo. Vendo energía porque sé dónde se puede conseguir. Me voy en julio a hacer 100 millas a Estados Unidos.
So there are a lot of things you can do. So when I asked Cesar Millan, for example, I interviewed him and I said, is there anybody that you-- whose footsteps you would like to follow?
Yo la vendo. Vendo energía porque sé dónde se puede conseguir. Sobre todo cuando estás preparando un maratón o las cien millas .
idea into everyday use? So obviously, Cesar Millan gives you ways to deal with your dog. But Daniel Kahneman gives you a series of questions to ask if we make a decision.
So, very often, people are much better talkers than they are writers, and that's where idea entrepreneurs should start. So, Cesar Millan, for example, is a great talker. He's great in person, but as a writer-- I mean, he's fine.
So there are a lot of things you can do. So, to use Cesar Millan again for an example, you know he talks about dog training.
um when I went to Burning Man a couple will you know pick something up and you don't have to do the whole Milla just you know whatever
It was just this kernel in my head. And I had this month long period to write it at the Millay colony. And when you get an artist residency like this, there's no one looking over your shoulder.
So, the first one. Fascination. If we look at Cesar Millan, he's got a great story. He was born in Mexico, he was raised on a farm, spent time on a farm as a kid.
like you're not getting anywhere. What's going on? So there was this trail on the Millay Colony property called the Poetry Trail. And along the path, in through the woods, are these poems, or excerpts of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, just little signposts on the side.
And just sometimes, ideas come when you're not forcing them. Just kept walking, and Edna St. Vincent Millay's grave is at the end of this trail, as well as her mother's grave. And I would just sit there, and think for awhile, and then go back in, and that would be the end of the day,
The ideas apply within communities and within organizations. So, finally, Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. Does everybody know the dog whisperer?
So around the time that I'm inventing, thinking of Amber, and thinking of this story that I knew I wanted to write, this ghost story in this prison, I got a writing residency, an artist residency at the Millay Colony in upstate New York, in Austerlitz, New York.
And the Millay Colony is on Edna St. Vincent Millay, the poet's property. And there's actually the colony area, and then across the street is Steepletop, Edna St. Vincent Millay's house. Her grave site is on the property.
What's going on? So there was this trail on the Millay Colony property called the Poetry Trail. And along the path, in through the woods, are these poems, or excerpts of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, just little signposts on the side. And I would walk along and read these poems every day, just absorbing them again and again.