London's This Is It collective recently made this video called "Bad Things That Could Happen" out of lots of cardboard. We're a bit late on this and it's already had something like 3 trillion views after being put on the front page of Vimeo, but as we've worked with This Is It a few times in the past I suppose that at least helps negate any nepotism slurs. Their video is great, so we talked to them about it.VICE: Please explain who you are and what you've done. The video is a post-structuralist thing, right? A lamentation of society's disdain for the invisible human (i.e. that which is invisible, but also human)?
This Is It Collective: No. My best mates and I made a film about bad things that could happen. It's called "Bad Things That Could Happen" and everything is made out of cardboard. It's not supposed to be serious art, it's just a fun film that ended up taking over all our lives and now we all hate each other.How long did it take you to make this? It looks hugely time-consuming.
About two and a half months. What are you wearing?'Kecks'.
Cool.You?
We are all wearing USB shoes.What do they plug into? Errant arseholes?
No, computers obvz.
Yeah, sorry. Who piped up during filming and said "let's make the egg yolk into a ghost?"
No one, we bought that from Tesco.How long have you been working together as a collective?
About three years. This is the first thing involving all of us, though.The film upset me a little bit. The bad things that happen all take place in domestic environments.
We wanted to take quite mundane bad things and make them dramatic.I like how it took you two and a half months to recreate things that happen every day.
If we had done seriously bad things, it might not have been very funny.What would you classify as a 'very bad thing'?
Trying to do poverty or famine in brightly painted cardboard might have been hard.
So how did you all meet?
At suburban house parties in Kingston-upon-Thames.The best kind of party. OK, I have to go. Any last words?
Today is a 'gift', that's why they call it 'the present'.MARTY FUNKYHOUSER
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This Is It Collective: No. My best mates and I made a film about bad things that could happen. It's called "Bad Things That Could Happen" and everything is made out of cardboard. It's not supposed to be serious art, it's just a fun film that ended up taking over all our lives and now we all hate each other.How long did it take you to make this? It looks hugely time-consuming.
About two and a half months. What are you wearing?'Kecks'.
Cool.You?
We are all wearing USB shoes.What do they plug into? Errant arseholes?
No, computers obvz.

No one, we bought that from Tesco.How long have you been working together as a collective?
About three years. This is the first thing involving all of us, though.The film upset me a little bit. The bad things that happen all take place in domestic environments.
We wanted to take quite mundane bad things and make them dramatic.I like how it took you two and a half months to recreate things that happen every day.
If we had done seriously bad things, it might not have been very funny.What would you classify as a 'very bad thing'?
Trying to do poverty or famine in brightly painted cardboard might have been hard.

At suburban house parties in Kingston-upon-Thames.The best kind of party. OK, I have to go. Any last words?
Today is a 'gift', that's why they call it 'the present'.MARTY FUNKYHOUSER