Tuesday, October 28, 2008

A Blog About a Table

Yes, today I'm writing about a table. Now, I'll admit that great stories are often born from dull subjects, but, no, there's really not much of a story here at all. Just a table. A really, very large conference table, but, come on, does that matter? Nah. A table's a table, regardless of size.

First of all, remember this guy?

My hero, gamemaker-extraordinaire Shigeru Miyamoto? Well today, I saw... his signature! Yeah! His signature! In real life! You'll never guess where it was. Unless you read the title of today's post, or maybe skimmed the first paragraph, that is. Yep, it was on a table. Nearly two weeks since I've blogged anything, and this is the big, life-changing event that rocked me out of hiatus. Some dude wrote on a table. Whoooooooooooooo!

In all seriousness, though, it was totally awesome. The man has an nice signature.

Above: Not a table.

Not only did Miyamoto leave his name, he also wrote the date and doodled a little Super Mario face. The man draws a nice Mario.

Above: A table. Sike! No, this is still not a table.

Each of the table's corners had a signature, though I didn't have time to see who else was there. One person had drawn a Pokemon trainer with a Pikachu, which I would've thought would be the mark of Satoshi Tajiri. Like I said, I didn't get much of a chance to check it out, and I couldn't quite make out the handwriting. I think it was something that started with an S, but it didn't look like "Satoshi" to me.

Even if I didn't know who these people were, I would've found the table interesting (interesting as tables go, at least) because the autographs were sealed off in frames. I'm not sure how to describe this, exactly. They were like picture frames that clamped around the corners of the table. Bizarre. I wonder if they were custom made. I can't imagine the table-corner frame business being a big money-maker.

3 comments:

Jake said...

I just found an adorable (if incredibly long) video of Miyamoto exploiting very small children.

http://us.wii.com/viewer_wiimusic.jsp?vid=4

Anonymous said...

1. The O's in his name look like they are not O's but something a bit more risque, with a crucifixion device in the middle.
2. You did not mention where the table was. Where was it?

Jake said...

In the conference room of my school.

I've actually known about this table for years - there was a blurb about it in Nintendo Power magazine, maybe, seven years ago - but this was my first chance to see it in real life.

What's worse - blogs about signatures on tables or articles in widely read magazines about the same? Or the fact that I remember having read an article about a table autograph seven years ago?