Jim Thomas/TBWA-BEING London on why you should be a nosey parker

I’m a nosey parker. I tend to look over the shoulder of others.

So when I walk through the office and see the screens of 32 different people I take a peek.

There are art directors looking longingly at infographics. Wishing for a release from corporate vanilla brand guidelines.

I overhear an argument about ‘Senna’. How this is the documentary to end all motorsport films. A lone voice disagrees and talks about some scary point of view footage in film with a great bloke called Guy Martin at the Isle of Man T.T. Can’t disagree.

Sitting down I see that pinterest is now the social media du jour. I have another 22 messages telling me that people are following my pinterest. Is Facebook oh-so last week? How did that happen? Crikey.

Someone sends me a link. Now a ‘how-do-they-do-that-moment?’ An ad that only girls will see.

Opening another link I see that you can have flying machines/mini-drones programmed to fly in formation and wonder who’ll be the first to use this.

I go to get a coffee and see that someone is watching The Prodigy’s ‘Warrior Dance’. Who’d have thought cigarette packets could be so aggressive?

Now away from the pixel I’m shown two old-fashioned business cards. How quaint. No. How useful.

Walking home I switch on the ‘Night Sky’ app and see all the stars and planets all around me. I wonder if I’ll soon be able to walk home guided by the stars. Course I will. That’s next week. Keep up.

Jim Thomas is a senior digital creative at TBWA\BEING-London