Highland Park 50

Feltron's infographic memoriam, a 50-year-old single-malt, psychedelic paint pours and more in our weekly survey of the web

Distilled in 1960, Highland Park 50 is the result of just five oak casks and some of the world’s oldest single-malt scotch. The liquid tastes like a blend of muscovado sugar and spicy tannins, hinting at an expensive cigar with notes of raisins and nutmeg. Announced last year, the first of the 275 bottles were released internationally this past week, with only five in the …

Bill Cunningham New York

Documentarian Richard Press on chasing NYT's living photography legend

Though shooting and editing “Bill Cunningham New York” only required two years, it took filmmaker Richard Press eight years before that to convince his subject to green-light the project. Cunningham, traversing and capturing every social milieu of New York with an excited and democratic eye, has become recognized over the decades as one of NYC’s greatest living visual historians. But his private nature and determination …

Black & Grey Tattoo

Our interview with ink doyenne Marisa Kakoulas on her grayscale tattoo magnum opus

Originating on the streets and in prisons, tattooing’s shades-of-gray genre initially often told the stories of tribal affiliations and conquests or were homages to the deceased. Methods of inking spanned readily available tools and homemade machines could be as random as “a guitar string, cassette motor, Bic pen tube and India Ink,” explains Marisa Kakoulas, co-author of the heavyweight book on the subject “Black & …