#240 - Jay E. Moyes - Public Relations to the Kinky Stars
I'm an artist, and when I was in college, I met two Dominatrixes that drew me into the BDSM scene of the San Francisco Bay Area. I released several calendars of my Femdom art, and moved to Los Angeles to be with a new lover.
In 1999, I was recruited to work at Adult Video News and worked in the art department. My job there was to gather artwork to go with news stories and press releases running in the magazine. This put me directly in touch with publicists in the adult industry.
In 2003, I was introduced to my partner Sherry. She had worked in radio and did publicity for bands. We opened a publicity firm called Black and Blue Media. Our firm catered to the adult industry and worked with the adult press. Our clients have included Skye Blue, Bondage Ball, Fetish Nation, New York Rubber Ball, and Michael Ninn.
We took a big hit with the stock market crash. Adult is not as recession-proof as people believe. By 2013, I had begun to stabilize and realized the time was right to get more serious about my fetish artwork.
I had always wanted my artwork to do well, but did not understand the art scene. So this was the time to learn more professionally about art. I started attending modeling workshops, supporting the Tom Of Finland Foundation, and getting out to more bondage classes to understand rope work for my drawings.
My website got re-branded to FetishArtist.net, and the project was a test bed for developing marketing techniques.
Mistress Cyan and I have known each other going back to the AVN days. We talked shop early on as she turned Passive Arts into Sanctuary Studios LAX. I began helping with stuff for the dungeon, and began doing press releases for the DomCon franchises. Mistress Cyan is now my official client and we work together on a variety of projects including Sanctuary Studios LAX and Inland Empire, Lair at AVN, and DomCon Los Angeles and New Orleans.
We’re currently gearing up for DomCon New Orleans, which will be October 4-7.
Links: https://blackandbluemedia.com/wp/ ——and—— http://fetish-artist.com/
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