Monthly Archives: January 2010

NOIR, FILM: Information Aesthetic Meta-Representational Considerations

31st
Jan. × ’10
Okay, so I know it’s naff, but for five years, the only way I’ve ever remembered Stevens’ On The Theory of Scale and Measurement is by the mnemonic NOIR: Nominal (named/categorised): apples, oranges, pears Ordinal (ordered): small, medium, large Interval (measured): the interval between 2:30pm and 3:00pm is the same as the interval between 10:30am and 11:00am Ratio (measured, [...]
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