Today we’d like to introduce you to Kevin Kinkade.
Hi Kevin, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I became involved with the Texas pagan community, the Council of Magickal Arts and the Burning/Man Flipside community in the late 90s here in Austin. One of the people who played drums with us around the revel fires had a business selling DVDs of his erotic art movies and one of his former models helped me find talent and also became my director of photography. We later collaborated on an erotic horror film titled Voices of the Dead, but the final product was not suitable for production due to some technical issues. You can see excerpts from this movie on my Actor YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@kevinkinkadeactor. These movies could be best described as a cross between Burning Man and Andrew Blake, whose erotic art films are some of the best. These movies generated some revenue, but it was the still images that garnered the most attention. I started hiring models just for photographs, which I turned into poster art. I then incorporated graphic design elements to create a line of t-shirts, hoodies, and crop tops, often using photoshopped images and AI-generated designs. These images and designs tend to lean towards the dark side, with scenes of vampire women, their fangs dripping with blood, nude women holding assault rifles and sitting astride motorcycles, in dark alleyways and desert highways, howling nude banshees in the forest, snarling demons and back wolves on graffiti-lined streets, snakes wrapped around assault rifles, crashed alien spacecraft in the desert, ghouls and skeletons riding motorcycles under the light of a full moon, witches holding crystal balls, stuff like that. These products are available now at the Wild Street Store, (WildStreetStore.com) and Wild Street Art (WildStreetArt.com). My YouTube channel for the Wild Street Store is https://www.youtube.com/@kevinkinkade2675
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has not been a smooth road. It has often been difficult to find distributors, since my product line straddles the fence between pornography and art. It’s not hard enough for the porn distributors and too risque for the mainstream. I was successful on Amazon for a while till they discontinued my first movie, Damiana. My second movie, Loss of Innocence, had a brief period of distribution till the DVD market faded away when everyone went to streaming and digital downloads. My posters were selling well on Etsy till they had a change of policy and decided to deactivate over 100 of my top-selling products. I’ve since had to divide my product line into what is safe for Etsy, while selling my NSFW (not safe for work) products on a separate website. I’ve had to switch platforms several times till I was able to find the ones that worked the best. Each time this happens, it becomes necessary to rebuild my SEO (search engine optimization) and that takes time. I also had some challenges promoting my product line on social media for the obvious reasons.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
Erotic horror is a niche market. My product line tends to appeal to the outlaws, bikers, pagans, Occultists, the Burning Man crowd, psychedelic rockers, punk rockers, goths and shoegazers. I was inspired by all of the amazing graffiti and street art on the walls of warehouses and abandoned buildings in the city of Austin, thus the name, Wild Street Art. My products are unique because they are edgy, push boundaries and are thought-provoking. I am most proud of my photographs of beautiful nude women in dangerous, provocative settings.
Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
Any time you start a business, you will face challenges and it is easy to give up when the going gets tough but it is perseverance that wins out in the end. If you have a creative vision, you have to follow that path. To deny it is to deny your destiny. The creative process is like a drug; it is very addictive and you will often work shit jobs like rideshare, delivery jobs or working for temp agencies or the restaurant industry, waiting tables or tending bar, just to scratch that creative itch in a recording studio, behind a camera, in front of a camera or on the stage. I also work as an actor and there is nothing more addictive than working with other actors to create a drama or comedy. Once you’ve been bitten by that bug, you are hooked for life.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://wildstreetart.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wildstreetart93
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WildStreetStore93
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kevinkinkade2675
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@wildstreetart
Image Credits
All images are either photographed by Kevin Kinkade and Wild Street Art or are AI-generated images and all licenses and model release forms are on file at the offices of Wild Street Art.
