Caine's Arcade
Apr. 13th, 2012 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrThis is a GREAT story. Watch this: it'll be the best ten minutes you'll spend today.
A 9-year-old boy spent the summer building a cardboard arcade in his dad’s small auto parts store in East L.A.
His first and only customer, who happened to be a filmmaker, decided to bring some more people to play.
9 year old Caine Monroy is about to have the best day of his life.
Oh, and by the way – if you go to the Caine’s Arcade site they put together, you’ll see that people have chipped in over $137,000+ for him to go to college. There's also a Facebook page.
This decreased worksuck in a major way. Kudos to the loving dad. George Monroy, who found a way to foster his son's creativity while running his business. Here's an interview done by the local NBC affiliate, which includes a short interview with the dad, and it's hilarious: "We're in a junkyard and this is the front office. So he started taking up half the office. And then he had three-quarters of the office, and I just kept moving over and over as he kept building. He kept using bigger boxes. Then he tried to make a ticket thing with a leaf blower. He made me go buy a leaf blower so he could blow tickets around inside the box. So we bought a leaf blower, we plugged it in and tickets were flying everywhere."
Kudos also to filmaker Nirvan Mullick, who took the trouble to NOTICE.
A short film by Nirvan, produced by Interconnected.
A 9-year-old boy spent the summer building a cardboard arcade in his dad’s small auto parts store in East L.A.
His first and only customer, who happened to be a filmmaker, decided to bring some more people to play.
9 year old Caine Monroy is about to have the best day of his life.
Oh, and by the way – if you go to the Caine’s Arcade site they put together, you’ll see that people have chipped in over $137,000+ for him to go to college. There's also a Facebook page.
This decreased worksuck in a major way. Kudos to the loving dad. George Monroy, who found a way to foster his son's creativity while running his business. Here's an interview done by the local NBC affiliate, which includes a short interview with the dad, and it's hilarious: "We're in a junkyard and this is the front office. So he started taking up half the office. And then he had three-quarters of the office, and I just kept moving over and over as he kept building. He kept using bigger boxes. Then he tried to make a ticket thing with a leaf blower. He made me go buy a leaf blower so he could blow tickets around inside the box. So we bought a leaf blower, we plugged it in and tickets were flying everywhere."
Kudos also to filmaker Nirvan Mullick, who took the trouble to NOTICE.
A short film by Nirvan, produced by Interconnected.