Heart of the Games

April 13, 2012 photog blogs

Probably the biggest “cute” story making the rounds this week is the kid who built his own arcade out of cardboard boxes in his dad’s auto shop.

Caine’s Arcade was discovered by a young filmmaker who made a short documentary about Caine.

The story was so heartwarming that people shared the story and the there you have the latest internet viral video sensation.

I got to meet Caine today when we visited his arcade.Not a particularly difficult assignment, but the trick was trying to catch up with Caine.

Originally told we wouldn’t be able to have a chance at an interview before 4pm (sorry, that’s when we have to have on TV with the story), we drove out to the auto shop in the hopes we might at least be able to get a head start on the elements of a package.

Lucky us, we actually caught Caine, his dad and eventually the filmmaker at the auto shop.The were all meeting up to go for an interview with “E”.

Boom! We shot our interviews, snagged a bit of b-roll, shot a stand up close and had the elements of our package in hand.

I should mention here that Caine and the filmmaker’s efforts have netted Caine about $125,000.00 in donations towards a scholarship fund.

It could be that I’m jaded, but this might not have happened without him, so I really hope they kicked a few dollars towards the filmmaker.

Seems only fair to me.