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mouser:
Fun video of a kid with a passion for making his own carnival games, who is surprised by a flashmob of supportive fans.

Caine Monroy is a 9-year old boy who spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade in his dad’s used auto parts store.

Caine dreamed of the day he would have lots of customers visit his arcade, and he spent months preparing everything, perfecting the game design, making displays for the prizes, designing elaborate security systems, and hand labeling paper-lunch-gift-bags. However, his dad’s autoparts store (located in an industrial part of East LA) gets almost zero foot traffic, so Caine’s chances of getting a customer were very small, and the few walk in customers that came through were always in too much of a hurry to get their auto part to play Caine’s Arcade. But Caine never gave up.

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http://vimeo.com/40000072





Kid's New Website: http://cainesarcade.com/

from http://boingboing.net/2012/04/09/9-year-olds-diy-cardboard-ar.html

Deozaan:
Cute story. Thanks for sharing. :)

tomos:
Okay, super followup video here showing loads of wonderful stuff made by kids all over the world, inspired by Cain's Arcade.

They started the Imagination Foundation
The Imagination Foundation formed three days after the Caine’s Arcade short film was posted online with a mission to find, foster, and fund creativity and entrepreneurship in more kids like Caine. We received a $250,000 Matching Challenge Grant from the Goldhirsh Foundation two days later to help build the Imagination Foundation.

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Amongst other things, they are organising a Global Cardboard Challenge with events all over the world on October 6th
www.cardboardchallenge.com

tomos:
And not so exciting, but some very interesting moments: 'Caine Monroy, Visiting Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at USC' (University of Southern California).
That's four videos, I mostly just let them run in the background myself.

Shows footage of first visit to the arcade by Nirvan (the filmmaker); interview with Cain, his dad and Nirvan. Nirvan is an interesting guy, talks a bit about the going viral experience--towards the end of the third video I think (would have been nice to hear more though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b9zVK0pi7Y&feature=related

TaoPhoenix:
Fun video of a kid with a passion for making his own carnival games, who is surprised by a flashmob of supportive fans.

-mouser (April 10, 2012, 12:59 PM)
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Videmo videos always seem to have poor bandwidth to me, so here is a YouTube copy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U

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