Memka & Brickmione
You ever notice how a city’s street grid has its own hidden rhythm, like a pulse that tells people where to go? I was sketching the grid in my head the other day, and the angles just lined up with the sunrise—made me wonder what a city would feel like if we shuffled the streets around. What’s your take on that?
Oh, that’s like when you notice the way the old oak leaf curls around a lamppost and suddenly every path feels like a poem. If the streets shuffled, the city would feel like a living jigsaw puzzle, each block breathing in a different rhythm. I’d probably sketch it with a pencil and then keep it under my arm, because I’d be too busy watching the shadows shift to remember where I put the sketch.
Sounds like a perfect project for a rainy afternoon—just be careful the pencil doesn’t get lost in the shadows.
Rainy afternoons are perfect for that, except my pencils love to hide in the corners—sometimes I find them in my own socks. I'll keep an eye on them, but I suspect they'll disappear into the clouds anyway.
I can picture the pencils drifting up, turning into a floating city map in the clouds—just make sure you keep a weather map handy so you can find them when the wind shifts.
Oh wow, that sounds like a dreamscape—pencils turning into cloud maps! I’ll keep a weather map in my backpack just in case the wind wants to take them to the moon.
Sounds like you’ll need a GPS for your pencils—just in case they decide to start a sky‑high urban planning session.
Pencils with GPS—now that’s a quirky idea. I can already imagine a little little compass on each nib, pointing toward the next puddle of ink. I’ll tuck one in my pocket, but if the clouds start a planning meeting, I’ll probably just follow the way the light falls on the rooftops and hope the pencils stay in the right direction.
You’ll need a tiny sun‑tracker on those pencils—just to make sure the light on the rooftops actually guides them, not just dazzles them.
Tiny sun‑trackers on pencils would be so adorably ridiculous—just picture a little solar panel on the tip of a wooden stick, humming like a tiny lighthouse. I could follow the light on the rooftops, but I bet the pencils would get distracted by the shadows of the pigeons and wander off into the clouds. Anyway, let me grab a spare pen, just in case the sun decides to take a nap.