18 Apr 2012

Kids Are Awesome – Caine’s Arcade

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&feature=player_embedded#!]

Let this video make your day. I’ve been meaning to watch this video since last week, but just now found some time to get around to it. Caine is a kid from Los Angeles who created an entire cardboard arcade filled with his favorite games. The rules are pretty simple. With a dollar, you can purchase yourself four turns, but with $2 you get the fun pass, which allows you access to 500 turns. That’s a pretty good deal. Despite this promotion though, Caine has had a difficult time finding customers willing to play his games. This hasn’t  gotten him down though. He operates his shop from open to close every single day never calling it quits early.

One day an independent filmmaker by the name of Nirvan Mullick stumbled upon Caine’s arcade and realized that his project was worth knowing about. With the consent and help of his father, he publicized a flashmob over the interwebs and kept it a secret from Caine until one day Caine came back to his arcade to find a crowd waiting for him.

[Source]