Take the smile, the enthusiasm and the imagination of a Californian child of only 9 years, the beauty and power of creative recycling and an expert film maker who has decided to tell his story. Here are the perfect ingredients of the viral video Caine's Arcade, more than 700.000 views on Vimeo, a short film made by Nirvan Mullick that tells the story of Caine Monroy, a little DIY genius who created an entire playroom made of reused cardboard. 10 minutes of frames that put a smile on your face throughout the day.
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Get the smile, the enthusiasm and the imagination of a Californian child of only 9 years, the beauty and power of creative recycling it's a expert film maker who has decided to tell his story. Here are the perfect ingredients of the viral video Caine’s Arcade , more than 700.000 views on Vimeo, a short film made by Nirvan Mullick that tells the story of Caine Monroy, a little DIY genius who created by himself in his father's garage aentire playroom made of reused cardboard. 10 minutes of frames that put a smile on your face throughout the day.
The beautiful story features this 9-year-old boy, a concentrate of tenderness and creativity, who last summer, having to spend whole days in the back of his father's auto parts shop, decided to spend his time on build an entire playroom out of cardboard. Enthusiast toys, like all children of his age, Caine began to design and build games until he created, in his father's back shop, a real "hand made" playroom with recycled materials, open to the public at the price of one dollar for 2 games or two dollars for a "Fun Pass" that allows you to play up to 500 times.
But after months of preparing everything and perfecting the design of the games, the tickets that Caine tries to sell to his father's clients are not very successful and hardly anyone stops to play among his cartoons. Until a videomaker decides to tell his story in a moving and original movie, "Caine's Arcade", which marks the beginning of "fame" for the little creative, who depopulated first on Reddit and then on Vimeo, managing to hit many new "customers" who start frequenting the arcade, especially thanks to a highly successful event advertised on Facebook for a flash mob, which saw about a hundred people participate at the same time. A day that Caine describes as "the most beautiful of my life". In the meantime, one has also left fundraising per finance your future studies, which, with the slogan "imagine what this child with an engineering degree could build", has now made it possible to collect over 130 thousand dollars.
“One day, by chance, I walked into Smart Auto Parts looking for a used door handle for my '96 Corolla. What I found was a cardboard playroom handcrafted by a little boy who asked me if I would like to play. I asked Caine how it worked and he told me that for $ 1 I could do two starts, while for $ 2 I could get a Fun Pass with 500 games. Of course I chose the Fun Pass, ”he says, who made Caine's story known to everyone. So, if you ever happen to be near Los Angeles, you know what to do for fun: go and play in Caine's cardboard arcade, open from 8 to 17 every Saturday in 538 N. Mission Rd Boyle Heights, CA 90033.
Roberta Ragni
