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Memory language · 🎈 Funny / Surreal

Our river, our promise

Odd, playful, slightly impossible images that are easy to replay.

Read-only demo — this is what funny / surreal cues feel like. Create your own speech to edit, practise and export.

The speech

Thank you for coming. Our river is choking on plastic. We can change that in three steps: carry a reusable bottle, join one clean-up each month, and teach every child to leave the park better than they found it. If we start today, by summer we will see fish where we now see rubbish.

The beats
  1. 1.Welcome the audience
  2. 2.Name the problem
  3. 3.First action
  4. 4.Shared monthly action
  5. 5.Teach the next generation
  6. 6.Close with hope
Scene 1

Umbrella of Thanks

A giant umbrella opens over the doorway raining tiny “thank you” notes on each guest.

Over the front doorway, an umbrella rains thank-you notes onto each guest.

Helps you remember · raining thanks = “thank you for coming”

Scene 2

Coughing River

The hallway carpet becomes a river that coughs plastic bottles like hairballs.

The hallway carpet ripples into a river, coughing up plastic bottles.

Helps you remember · carpet-river coughing = “river choking on plastic”

Scene 3

Flask With Legs

A steel flask sprouts legs and walks the counter, kicking paper cups into the bin.

On the kitchen counter, a flask on tiny legs kicks paper cups into the bin.

Helps you remember · walking flask = “carry a reusable bottle” (it carries itself)

Scene 4

Sofa Parade

The lounge sofa marches through the room once a month with twelve tiny cleaners on top.

The lounge sofa parades across the room with twelve tiny cleaners waving.

Helps you remember · monthly sofa parade = “clean-up each month”

Scene 5

Talking Chalk

A piece of chalk floats at the garden gate reading itself aloud to a listening child.

At the garden gate, floating chalk reads itself aloud to a child.

Helps you remember · chalk reading itself = “teach every child”

Scene 6

Fish From Rubbish

The garden pond hums and a silver fish leaps out of what was, yesterday, a heap of rubbish.

At the garden pond, a silver fish leaps from where rubbish sat yesterday.

Helps you remember · fish from rubbish = “see fish where we now see rubbish”