Caine Monroy is a 9-year-old boy with a giant imagination. Inside his father's auto parts store, he built an entire game arcade... out of cardboard. He fashioned a claw game out of an s-hook and a cardboard box, and he crawls inside of his creations to spit out tickets by hand for his players. I love his use of square root calculators to verify his fun passes. His first (and intially only) customer was a fortuitous one - a filmmaker who recognized the greatness of what Caine had made. Check out this short film. You won't be sorry.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U[/youtube]
Now that you're crying tears of joyous inspiration, head over to the Caine's Arcade website where they're raising money for Caine to go to college.
(Big thanks to Meryl Alper for this one, who actually played in Caine's Arcade in person. I'm so jealous!)
