sábado, 10 de marzo de 2007
¿Cuántos megapixels tiene tu metáfora?
"Una imagen vale por mil palabras"
Proverbio (demasiado) popular
¡Pucha qué es difícil llenar de contenido un título tan bueno!
Es no sólo la descripción justa del tema, si no también ingenioso y autocontenido (es una imagen/metáfora). Incluso, provoca la sonrisa cómplice del lector...
Se podría decir que en términos de manejo de información es bastante "pesado"...
Si cada píxel necesita un mínimo de 8 bits para definirse en una escala de grises y de 16 a 24 bits para una gama de colores, ¿cuántos bits hay en esa pregunta? ¿Cuántos genera en el que la lee?
Haciendo un paralelismo directo, considerando que cada "palabra" digital es un byte (8 bits) y habiendo 5 palabras en el título, se podría decir que hay 5 bytes = 5 pixels de gama de gris en esa frase. O sea, 5 míseros puntitos grises...
¿Podémos decir lo mismo, en imagen, con cinco puntitos grises?
Cómo cambia la perspectiva cuando uno mete un poco de informática de por medio...
Bueno, un purista podría decir que esos puntitos grises, las palabras del título, tienen a la vez funciones de data y de modificadores. Lo primero que notarían es que dejé afuera los signos de pregunta.
Ok.
¿Qué valor le damos a esos modificadores? ¿Qué equivalente en imagen tienen?
Ahí se complica todo un poco y no es por el lado que quiero ir, aunque es claro que cualquier valor, arbitrario o funcional, siempre va a dar un lenguaje más compacto que el de la imagen, en términos de simple acarreo de información.
Además, si esto pudiera codificarse de un modo tan simple, podríamos construir fabulosas máquinas poéticas dignas de Lem.
Puedo seguir escribiendo mil o más palabras o pasar una vida buscando una imagen para expresar esa simple pregunta del título y todavía quedarían cosas en el tintero (o la paleta) que son abarcadas por ella.
Es lo que hace a la poesía o, mejor dicho (o peor, seguro que ya hay muchas teorías al respecto que desconozco) a la función poética del lenguaje, un instrumento tan poderoso, que se vale de imágenes, sí, pero evocadas más que mostradas, con el abuso de la flexibilidad de la mente humana que eso implica.
La palabra justa, una sola, puede encerrar más imágenes que una imagen, perdón por la forma redundante y desprolija de ponerlo.
Incluso cuando tenemos una imagen que nos mueve este tipo de relaciones dentro de nuestras cabezas, en general se trata de asociaciones lingüísticas o metalingüísiticas de imágenes con imágenes. Y en ese momento la imagen es lenguaje, no sólo imagen. En un círculo completo, la imagen se vuelve metáfora.
Uno piensa el Quijote y la imagen es la carga contra los molinos de viento... Dos o tres páginas de una aventura de cientos... Pero es la imagen justa, descrita casi al pasar en el libro, que nos cautiva a todos, del Caballero de la Triste Figura.
¿Cuántos megapixels tiene esa metáfora de la carga contra los molinos?
No hacen falta muchos para representarla, apenas un bosquejo, y ahí encerramos al Quijote para siempre.
Dentro de un círculo completo.
A little on sci-fi on screen (old)
A little on Sci-Fi.
I've just watched Serenity.
Also, recently finished Battlestar Galactica first year (waiting for my 2nd year pack from Amazon).
Well, Serenity is great. They did a great use of the money, but isn't better than some episodes from the series (Objects in Space and Out of Gas comes to mind). Also, viewing the deleted scenes, I found very interesting the choices Whedon made on the editing room: he favored the pouring of information over the exposition usual in most Hollywood stuff.
I have the seven years of Buffy on hold to see how he has evolved to that point.
Battlestar Galactica.
What to say that wasn't already said? Truly good character driven story. Helped for some very good characterizations (and almost sunk for Sharon... I hoped she was killed soon, to discover in despair that she is Legion, and pregnant).
I found only two things confusing. One was solved (in a very lame way, as I found looking into the deleted scenes): it was why in Hell the Socinus' character was in the Raptor going to Kobol and not in prison?. There is an stupid deleted scene in which the Chief took him out of the Brig (sp?). They did the right choice: is better the audience think that you make a mistake than to confirm that you ran out of good ideas to solve minimal issues.
The other thing goes around the Baltar Test. Baltar made its beta test on Sharon and he got and instantaneous correct answer. In the next episode (and in some others for a long time) most of his "personal (selfish) drama" turns around him having to make the test on everybody in the fleet... And the test takes 11 hours to be made!... Also, we learn that he will make everybody pass the test! So, there is no other reason to make it to take that long than to justify the plot for... only one episode!!! As later he went for the political plot... Maybe I'm missing something.
On Star Wars: it sucks big. Except for The Empire Strikes Back, and I sense the dark hand of Kasdan all over it (from the dialogues to the mise en escene), which sucks a bit less.
Starship Troopers: best parody (not satire, you illiterates) of propaganda war films I've seen. Nothing better to do from that book, except that you take the time to really deepen on all the details of that failed eutopia (as it isn't even a dystopia, ala 1984. More like The Iron Dream by Spinrad, just that taken seriously).
Babylon 5: I saw the first episodes, got disappointed, then got back and watched the last ones. Looked like a different show. I plan to buy it sometime in the future to see it all.
I've just watched Serenity.
Also, recently finished Battlestar Galactica first year (waiting for my 2nd year pack from Amazon).
Well, Serenity is great. They did a great use of the money, but isn't better than some episodes from the series (Objects in Space and Out of Gas comes to mind). Also, viewing the deleted scenes, I found very interesting the choices Whedon made on the editing room: he favored the pouring of information over the exposition usual in most Hollywood stuff.
I have the seven years of Buffy on hold to see how he has evolved to that point.
Battlestar Galactica.
What to say that wasn't already said? Truly good character driven story. Helped for some very good characterizations (and almost sunk for Sharon... I hoped she was killed soon, to discover in despair that she is Legion, and pregnant).
I found only two things confusing. One was solved (in a very lame way, as I found looking into the deleted scenes): it was why in Hell the Socinus' character was in the Raptor going to Kobol and not in prison?. There is an stupid deleted scene in which the Chief took him out of the Brig (sp?). They did the right choice: is better the audience think that you make a mistake than to confirm that you ran out of good ideas to solve minimal issues.
The other thing goes around the Baltar Test. Baltar made its beta test on Sharon and he got and instantaneous correct answer. In the next episode (and in some others for a long time) most of his "personal (selfish) drama" turns around him having to make the test on everybody in the fleet... And the test takes 11 hours to be made!... Also, we learn that he will make everybody pass the test! So, there is no other reason to make it to take that long than to justify the plot for... only one episode!!! As later he went for the political plot... Maybe I'm missing something.
On Star Wars: it sucks big. Except for The Empire Strikes Back, and I sense the dark hand of Kasdan all over it (from the dialogues to the mise en escene), which sucks a bit less.
Starship Troopers: best parody (not satire, you illiterates) of propaganda war films I've seen. Nothing better to do from that book, except that you take the time to really deepen on all the details of that failed eutopia (as it isn't even a dystopia, ala 1984. More like The Iron Dream by Spinrad, just that taken seriously).
Babylon 5: I saw the first episodes, got disappointed, then got back and watched the last ones. Looked like a different show. I plan to buy it sometime in the future to see it all.
Suscribirse a:
Entradas (Atom)