COILHOUSE 03 is out, with a feature on Xeni + BB Video.

Buy Coilhouse #3 right here. We're big fans of Coilhouse Magazine over here at Boing Boing, so it was a special honor and delight when the gothtastically beautiful ladies who run the publication told us they were planning a feature on me/BB. I swear I'm not just vanity-blogging here -- this whole issue is wonderful, and the fantastic illustrations by Stuntkid (aka Norfolk, VA-based artist Jason Levesque), including the unicorny one above, are the coolest ever. I love his work!

The physical artifact is gorgeous: rich colors, lush print quality, embossed glossy cover, beveled corners. The articles are great, and the same sort of material we'd cover here on any given blog-day: a photo-essay on the "pirate ghetto," Walled City of Kowloon; an avatar fashion spread shot by Gustavo Lopez Mañas (this is the cover shot), Marina Bychkova's creepy ball-jointed porcelain dolls, and an interview with Battlestar Galactica's conceptual captain Ron Moore. There's lots more.

I know the Coilhouse folks have been struggling of late to keep putting out such a high-quality, densely-packed publication in this crappy economy. Y'know how, some magazines, you buy 'em, then toss 'em right when you're done reading them -- but others, you stick on your bookshelf and keep 'em forever? Coilhouse is a keeper. They're doing strong work in the true Boing Boing spirit of Happy Mutantry, and I hope you'll support them by buying a copy (or a t-shirt!) today.

* Link to Coilhouse issue #03 preview
* Flickr set with details of Stuntkid's illustrations.

(Special thanks to photographer Clayton Cubitt, whose work appears in the aforementioned feature; to Courtney Riot, who did the graphic design on this issue, and to Nadya Lev, Meredith Yayanos, and Zoetica, the co-editrix trifecta behind Coilhouse.)

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  You infectious bastard.

• [Anonymous]

  @mojave – duct tape, scientifically proven to be the only thing that sticks to unicorns.

• [Anonymous]

  This magazine is cheaper than 2 drinks at a bar. Stay in tonight and buy it because you love Xeni!

• [mdh]

  moleskine sticks to corns pretty well.

• [apoxia]

  Looks like a really cool magazine. To buy and have it shipped to New Zealand, however, would cost me NZD40.00. That’s a little too much for me. I do subscribe to an English magazine which costs me NZD18.00 an issue (including postage), but I can’t really justify twice the price. It’s a shame because I have been thinking of finding other alternative magazines I could purchase.

• [simonbarsinister]

  Coilhouse the magazine with beveled edges interviews Ron Moore, the man responsible for a universe where all paper has beveled edges. The universe folds in on itself?

• [Xeni Jardin]

  ooooh!

• [phoenix]

  Can…can I get that leading image on a poster? :D

• [Anonymous]

  The picture… it’s mighty EPIC ! O_O

• [simonbarsinister]

  I am having cognitive dissonance with a comment about Xeni in a metal suit, with descriptions like “sliding” and “f*ck” that is just about the logistics of riding a unicorn.

  I must be spending too much time on 4chan.

• [Anonymous]

  snarky anonymous comment

• [theawesomerobot]

  I dig the layout, high five Courtney Riot.

• [lessthanzen]

  I made this for when an image is so vile and disgusting there is no recovery…
  http://tinyurl.com/2e6phju

• [jfrancis]

  That magazine, and its associated web site, are fantastic, btw.

• [nadyalev]

  Xeni, thank you again for this post and for the interview. It means the world to us!

• [dculberson]

  That’s an awesome picture of you, Xeni! (The actual photo, not the drawing. Although the drawing has its own charms.)

• [GuabaMan]

  Simply Amazing! Love the cyborg Maria from Metropolis look!
  Now we need a Xenicornium action figure.

• [Anonymous]

  yeah ride that unicorn, baby! ride it HARD!

• [Phikus]

  So Xeni: How does it feel to be a certified web goddess now?

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  I can never find lipstick that matches my unicorn’s mane. How do you do it?

  • [Xeni Jardin]

    @Antinous: unicornlipstickofthemonthclub.com.

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  Dammit Xeni, I SO wanted that to be a real website..

  /Crestfallen

• [Takuan]

  unicornism is spreading
  “the several months that Baucus’ Gang of Six spent in pursuit of a bipartisan bill were a waste of time, he said, because the GOP has no plans on cooperating. “The Senate and the president to some extent have been like a child looking for a unicorn. I don’t see it,” he said. “The Senate is [often called] the cooling saucer of our democracy. It’s starting to seem more like the meat locker of our democracy.”

  Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/16/roland-burris-becomes-fir_n_288877.html“

• [simonbarsinister]

  @Arkizzle: so tempted to register the domain and make it a real website…

• [Brainspore]

  Jeez Xeni, for someone who spends so much time flying through the stratosphere you look like you could use some sun. That is one well-polished mount you’ve got there, though.

• [Theremina]

  Hi, Apoxia. I’m one of the co-founders of Coilhouse, and I actually just moved to NZ. It’s true, we don’t have distribution here yet but we’re working on it. (We do have distribution in Australia… so close, yet so far away!)

  Meantime, there’s a stack of #03s being shipped to me from LA in the next few days. Email me at theremina at gmail dot com and we’ll work something out… it might take a little while, but I’d be happy to mail you a copy myself once they get here. Cheers!

  Mer

• [Takuan]

  “it’s a dirty story, about a dirty girl…”

• [arkizzle / Moderator]

  Simon, you could bring glittery satisfaction to so many young hearts.

• [pinehead]

  A mark of Stuntkid’s talent: before reading even the first syllable of this post, I noticed the top half of the image on my screen and thought, “Hm. That looks like Xeni Jardin. On a… no, couldn’t be.”

  *scroll* “Well. How about that? Boob armor, too. I bet that’s expensive, to make it fit right.”

• [tomorrowboy]

  @Andrew: I picked up Coilhouse issue 3 for $15 (coverprice) in a magazine shop in Toronto last week. If you live in a major city maybe try some of the bigger magazine shops?

  And any bar where two drinks costs $25 is one I am staying incredibly, incredibly far away from.

  -Matthew

• [angusm]

  Does the fact that you have posted a unicorn chaser without anything vile and disturbing preceding it mean that you are now obliged to follow it up with something horrifying? A unicorn chaser chaser, so to speak.

  Equilibrium must be preserved.

• [GeekMan]

  Now I find myself yearning for the day that Xeni will ride up to me on her unicorn wearing her futuristic armour-jumpsuit, stretch out a single hand, and say:

  “Come with me if you want to live.”

• [Xeni Jardin]

  Mark just took care of that for us, Angusm.

• [Andrew Ferguson]

  I’d love to continue supporting this magazine; they write about such awesome stuff.

  Unfortunately, at $25+ CDN per issue I can’t really justify it anymore.

• [mdh]

  You SO could have slipped in a botfly larvae just there.

• [jfrancis]

  That outfit Xeni is wearing in the unicorn is based on the Maria robot from Metropolis?

  http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=maria+metropolis&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

• [Xeni Jardin]

  THE DAY IS YOUNG, MDH.

• [Theremina]

  Thank you, Xeni. We love BoingBoing. And you will always be my favorite unicorn chaser.

  xo, Meredith

• [Dean Putney]

  Purple text? Unicorns? Cupcake bicycles? Xeni?

  Where can I buy this magazine again?

  Also, I may note that unicornlipstickofthemonthclub.com is not owned. Investment opportunity much?

• [Xeni Jardin]

  Thanks, Mer! Keep doing the wonderful work you’ve been doing.

  @PINEHEAD: it’s spelled “Bewb Armor.”

• [Xeni Jardin]

  @DEAN PUTNEY, LOL. You’re the web genius here!

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Now I can’t stop singing Unicorn Rider to the tune of Paperback Writer.

• [mack]

  Velcro.