# Monet and Elvis

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monet-and-elvis/135471>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 6, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monet-and-elvis/135471 "2002-11-06T01:06:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![slipster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@slipster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slipster)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monet-and-elvis/135471/1 "2002-11-06T01:06:42Z")

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A couple of years back I stumbled on weird site while surfing the Net. It has become something akin to the lost chord for me, as I have never been able to find it, or something like it, again.

It showed two scans of a haystack painting by Monet. The first was a high resolution scan, showing the painting clearly. The other was a very low resolution scan, so that there was just a colorful array of pixels. This second scan looked uncannily like a photo of Elvis Presley’s face held upside down.

The effect was actually quite eerie. It brought to mind the scene in Jarmusch’s movie Mystery Train where a Japanese teenager shows her scrapbook of photos of Mayan statues and the like which look strangely like Elvis, and Mojo Nixon’s song “Elvis is Everywhere”.

Perhaps it was a joke and the second scan had been doctored to get the resemblance. In any case, can anyone tell me where I can see this scan again?

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**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monet-and-elvis/135471/2 "2002-11-06T02:26:43Z")

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Ah! So this is the question. Your OP was munched the other night, but [**Mangetout**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=142557) still got some [entertainment](http://www.fiftiesweb.com/elvis/elvishasleft.wav) out of it.

Sorry, though, I don’t have much of an answer for you, except perhaps to note that pop artist [Denny Dent](http://dennydent.com/christiansciencearticle.html) is pretty famous for doing upside-down portraits in a few minutes flat–usually of Jimi Hendrix.

Could he somehow be involved?