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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 27/09/2026

I snuck out for a walk on Tuesday

Fat guy with purple hair wearing a hoodie in the woods, winking at the camera

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 07/09/2026

I didn't realize until fluorescent indoor minigolf yesterday that my Nomad Complex wristband does this

Wristband glowing in the dark, with happy, partying anthro creatures

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 27/08/2026

20x zoom to see Blucifer from the Denver Airport train station and I still had to crop it down for this

Blurry image of the sculpture Blue Mustang viewed from far away

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 19/08/2026

Theseus Slaying the Minotaur. Bronze, sculpted by Antoine-Louis Barye ca. 1840. Wadsworth Atheneum. This gave me a new perspective on the Minotaur. Slay me, Theseus

Theseus preparing to plunge his dagger into the Minotaur. They're both nude, and their legs are wrapped around each other in a way that looks… intimate.

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 12/08/2026

Commonly called "giant tube worms", they grow around deep sea geothermal vents

Worms growing on the deep sea floor. They have a white body with a red tip surrounding a mouth-like opening

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 11/08/2026

"No one's in this pot. Go away. I am the spaghetti."

Bob Belcher staring at a suspiciously large pasta pot

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 11/07/2026

Yoshitomo Nara is such an inspiration for me! I saw a retrospective exhibit of his work at the Asia Society museum in NYC in 2010 and then attended a lecture he gave at the MFA in Boston in 2019. I especially like this sculpture I saw in the exhibit, Mini Thinker (2006)

A cartoonish, child-like figure with canine ears, seated on a small bench in a contemplative pose, one eye covered in a gauze pad

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 02/07/2026

I'm sure it could have been done better / more cleanly but as a soldering novice I'm glad I finally replaced the SRAM battery in this Japanese Pokémon Silver cartridge with a battery holder and it works

Game Boy cartridge PCB with a dead old CR2025 SRAM battery soldered in

Same Game Boy cartridge PCB with a reusable CR1616 battery holder soldered in place of the old SRAM battery

Pokémon Silver start menu on a backlight-modded Game Boy Color, showing the option to continue a saved game

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 27/06/2026

Throwback to June 2023 when I snuck into a municipal government office building in Brno, CZ, just to use a paternoster elevator for the only time in my life

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 20/06/2026

From a 1982 Readers Digest collection of children's stories our five-year-old found at the bookstore this week. The fox is from an illustration by Angela Adams for the Finnish folktale "Mighty Mikko". The typeface is Souvenir

A somewhat anthropomorphic red fox taking a deep, formal bow over the word "Storytime"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 08/06/2026

QRP with your pride flags (Or don't! I'm not not a cop)

Gilbert Baker's eight-stripe rainbow flag

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 13/05/2026

I tried to explain A Midsummer Night's Dream to a friend and when I sent him this painting of Bottom he was like "Wait, why did they make him hot?"

Titania and Bottom, painted by John Anster Fitzgerald

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 01/05/2026

Hello from this little guy who lives in my ear

Ear jewelry, made to look like a little raccoon stuck partway through a hole in my ear and dangling

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 29/12/2025

Bringing back this photo because oh hey, it's them. The Gender-Non-Conforming Mega Men

Ad copy for "GNC MEGA MEN Prostate & Virility CLINICALLY STUDIED MULTIVITAMIN"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 20/12/2025

It's got a certain midcentury vibe that would not be perfected until The Gay Cookbook 20 years later

Cover of The Gay Cookbook by Chef Lou Rand Hogan, illustrated with a twink grilling a steak

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 19/12/2025

I'll take a walk for my mental health and the walk looks like this. I think it does help, though

Path through bare deciduous trees, covered in decaying leaves and standing water

A barn in drizzly weather in front of cloudy gray hills

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 18/12/2025

I used this teal disc but honestly it was the first one I grabbed and I think I'll probably write the album more permanently to one that's flashier, maybe pink because I like feeling that the disc matches how I feel about the music. My copy of Synthesizing the Silk Roads lives on a zebra-print MD

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 18/12/2025

Now that my NetMD writer is operational again I'm back on my MiniDisc bullshit 💽 Currently playing @dimafoxpaws.com

Sony MiniDisc player remote displaying "The Moo.d"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 13/12/2025

I think it's been a while since I showed off my favorite mug!

A simple mug printed with a detail from the tapestry known as "The Unicorn in Captivity", depicting a unicorn chained to a persimmon tree, surrounded by a small fence and lots of wildflowers

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 06/12/2025

Went to a local hardware store for a replacement toilet tank lever and this dog was staring at me from a nearby barber shop. I realized later the dog and I were wearing matching sweaters

A small dog (Maltese, I think) in a pink sweater-jacket and yellow collar staring through a glass door into a parking lot

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 26/11/2025

Editing the video for "The End of All Things" was a serendipitous moment where the images I needed emerged from the found footage, and the editing decisions seemed obvious as if they were dictated to me. It feels less like I made it and more like I found a little movie that no one had ever seen

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 13/11/2025

Vertical crop of the "Redwood Nurse Log" video for all you vertical video sickos (affectionate)

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 07/11/2025

Direct upload of the video for "The End of All Things". This track is on Hartford, Providence and Fishkill, releasing 21 November through Ingrown Records

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 23/10/2025

I think I might need to quit microblogging for a while and do some… regular-sized blogging?

Bob's Burgers dialogue:

"Regular Sized Rudy? Why do they call you that?"
"Just look at me"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 09/10/2025

Today I learned that this famous suit worn by Gram Parsons… 1) was created by Nuta "Nudie Cohn" Kotlyarenko 2) had a large radiant cross on the back

Cosmic country musician Gram Parsons posing in a white suit embroidered with desert flowers and cannabis plants

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 19/09/2025

When did Boston get… whatever this is? And when did Rivian buy the weird Star Market that overhangs the Pike?

Scyscraper where the edges of the stories are not aligned in various places. Looks like a poorly stacked pile of books

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 10/09/2025

For the love of God, Montresor!

Sealed bottle of Frank's Red Hot sauce on a windowsill in a dusty stone cellar

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 21/04/2025

Resuming my retrospective of tracks from my previous albums with this piece from Point Mass, "Where the Bumper Cars Were"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 11/04/2025

What I've recorded so far for the album in progress

01. From the River
02. Gulf of Deepwater Horizon
03. The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter
04. Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847
05. Blood-Dimmed Tide
06. Coventry Carol
07. Pribislav Hippe
08. Rockville Railroad
09. Funeral March for Gordon Cole

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 02/04/2025

To continue my little retrospective, here's a track from my second album, Point Mass. It's called "Where the Bumper Cars Were"

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 29/03/2025

Another track from my first album, Plague. This one is called "Monstrous moonshine" and it's probably the most straightforwardly joyful track I've made

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 29/03/2025

New album progresses slowly, so I'll reshare some old stuff. This is my recording of "Aquarium" from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals, from my first album, Plague. I worked from a MIDI file arranged by Ramón Pajares.

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 02/03/2025

Rockville, Connecticut. 2025-03-01

Parent and child, dressed for late winter, rest at the bottom of a flight of stairs beneath an ornate Catholic Church

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 23/02/2025

Was working on this little duet in a composition-in-progress last night and decided to swap one of the voices for vowel synthesis based on Mutable Instruments Plaits

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 22/02/2025

When I'm pulling together musical ideas I'll tend to come up with a placeholder album name and cover art to kind of conceptually hold it all in place, though I might completely change them later. This is my current placeholder and I'm still deciding whether or not I like it

Photo of a rough-hewn granite rock face covered with icicles and moss, topped with trees, under a blue sky. Labeled:

Dominique Cyprès.
Hartford, Providence and Fishkill

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 23/01/2025

If you like photography and have never seen an Ozu movie, I implore you to watch Floating Weeds

A teen boy and an old man sit fishing, with a can of bait in the foreground and a lighthouse at the end of a spit in the background

A group of old people and children seated in the audience of a small-town kabuki theater performance

A view through the sliding doors of a traditional Japanese home. There is a mosquito coil burning in the foreground. A blue-green paper lantern hangs from the awning outside, and there is a small, dimly lit garden in the background, with red flowers and a high stone wall

Two empty ramune bottles and two empty pudding cups sit on a low table on a tatami mat floor, with a balcony and the awning of another building in the background

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 12/01/2025

Choosing to view the world through rose-tinted glasses (in a strictly literal sense)

Photo of the author walking by a hayfield, wearing glasses that develop a rose tint when exposed to UV light

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Dominique Cyprès @hamster.dance · 03/01/2025

Fascinated by the implications of this. Release the Warren Harding sex tape

My post about a song about Warren Harding, but the YouTube thumbnail has been labeled as adult content by Bluesky Moderation

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