Spike Lee meets Johnny Vukan thanks to Steve Jobs

Johnny Vulkan constantly impresses and inspires me and I am really proud to count him as a friend.

I'm sure that you've read about his iPhone experience is all over the blogosphere as well as in the mainstream media. Not only did he get to meet and shop with Spike Lee...

But he also hugely raised the profile of (and I hope money for) Keep A Child Alive thanks to the fact that he was auctioning off the iPhone on eBay.

The other thing that I found interesting was that in all the reports of Johnny's great iPhone adventure his agency, Anomaly, was always mentioned:

PR News: Johnny Vulkan, representative of Keep A Child Alive and partner at Anomaly is first in line at Apple's SoHo store - Manhattan

Valleywag The man on the right, Johnny Vulkan, is a creative type, with Anomaly, a hip web agency

I think that it's just brilliant: Johnny gets to be one of the first people in the world to own an iPhone and become a minor, temporary celebrity in the process and meet loads of interesting people; Keep a Child Alive gets enormous amounts of hugely valuable free publicity (and money) and Anomaly who were smart enough to give Johnny a week off work gets a lot of kudos as do their clients (see the logos on JV's t-shirt and his Jawbone ear-piece) It does more for the reputation of Anomaly as a smart, creative and principled agency that any advertisement that they could have developed and run.

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[Stan Lee]

I read an article this afternoon about the man from the first telco Apple spoke to, who turned down the iPhone. He could become as famous as the guy from Decca who turned down the Beatles.