I'm really taken in by this idea of rhyming--not just words, but pictures too, and when it comes to the coincidences among people, I find that a type of rhyming too. It's like that day when you're talking about really needing new socks, and you go home to find that your mom has bought you new socks. That's rhyming.
Or when you notice your apartment-mate makes popcorn in the pot every night, and the next day, when you stay with a student host for a med school interview, your host is also making popcorn in the pot! That's rhyming. (That's probably also indicative of some kind of weird green culture brewing in NYC.)
Rhyming with words is tricky. I'm always impressed when I listen to song artists who warble words so that they rhyme. I can't think of an example right now, but I'm thinking someone robustly melodious like Beyonce would do something like that.
My favorite rhyming moment happened at MOMA's Dali exhibit. One of the museum's pieces was a short cartoon video called Destino. It was a collaboration between Disney and Dali that was cancelled prematurely but completed by other artists using Dali's story board. It is a gorgeous, gorgeous musical and visual piece that takes advantage of shapes morphing into shapes, fully developing Dali's penchant for visual rhyming. YouTube has a couple of bootlegged full versions and trailers.
Okay, I lied. My actual favorite rhyming piece is the NY Salad collection by Amano. Wow. I love it because it takes advantage of sketching, using the unfinished quality as a transition tool between one idea and another. I also love it because it draws a fantasy out of something very ordinary. It's also super cute.
