Rhymes with the Times
6/10 sections recovered · name · leaderboard description · match catalog cover · match catalog tags · match catalog funding · leaderboard submissions · match catalog
$210 displayed raised · 3 fund applications · 2 seasons · best rank #827 in Season 7
A virtual reality immersive theater hip hopera, combining puzzles, poetry and puppetry, w…
CollaborationCooperativeInteractiveMusicPoetryPuzzle GameRapSocial GamingVirtual Reality community-economymusic-performance
Project details match catalog
About
An interactive anthology of immersive experiences that take place in a series of surreal VR worlds, challenging audiences to solve collaborative puzzles to unlock multimedia performances of social and political spoken word poetry and puppetry.
Impact
It’ll provide the audience with the inspiration and some of the cognitive tools to rethink their personal relationship with the status quo of late stage capitalism and systemic inequality
Progress
3 of 10 virtual worlds along with several avatars have been built by a team of artists and game devs who made some of the highest fidelity interactive worlds in Sansar and Second Life. Volumetric capture of 4 poems is complete.
Team
I’ve been writing/performing slam poetry and rap for 20+ years, while doing Hollywood visual effects as my day job. I’ve created ground-breaking VR experiences for 10+ years, including award-winning VR music festivals and interactive films.
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $10 | $10 | — | — | — | $0 | — |
| Season 7 | $50 | $0 | $50 | $150 | $200 | $0 | $10 | $160 | 0.0x | 3.0x | 3.2x | $210 | — |
| Total | $50 | $0 | $50 | $150 | $200 | $0 | $20 | $170 | — | — | — | $210 | — |
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | Expanding Horizons Fund | submitted | 2026-06-26 |
| Season 6 | MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | submitted | 2026-06-26 |
| Season 6 | Fund of Infinite Yes | submitted | 2026-06-26 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/rhymes-with-the-times
Wayback: leaderboard page ↗ · Wayback: platform page ↗
Not recovered: creator, links, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | FutureZoo What if the most powerful force in conservation isn’t protection, but connection? | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $215,046 |
| 2. | TUNER Tuner is a documentary-based XR experience where you have a custom alien encounter shaped… | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $87,139 |
| 3. | Wild Voices: Conversations with AR animals An AI powered AR app that brings lifelike animals into homes, turning conversation into r… | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $42,361 |
| 4. | Mango Magic Movement A cinematic movement for a more harmonious, healed and magical world. | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $28,679 |
| 5. | iContact, the tactile tech opera An experimental immersive subversive tactile tech opera exploring the edges of bodies, ec… | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $28,657 |
| 6. | Abductive Pathways An interactive oracle that helps groups imagine futures together | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $23,899 |
| 7. | Voices of the Land From Women to the world a journey of voice and vibration. Music, stories, and sacred soun… | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $19,991 |
| 8. | A New Musical Traumedy: BEHIND THE MASK A man awakens to the generational trauma in his family, only to discover a startling trut… | Expanding Horizons Fund, Fund of Infinite Yes, MultiMax Fund for Immersive Interaction | $19,558 |
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