Alex Bag Video

Although the Alex Bag video depicts the cliche art student of the 90s, the struggles and changes she goes through are pretty relevant. As I watched the video I tried to relate her experience as a student to my own and to the experiences of my peers and found that often it wasn't much different. It was an interesting way to put things into perspective. Watching this video of a scatterbrained art student with an attitude ramble on about her experience about art school and life in general is a reminder that this could very well be me, or you!

It is an eye opener to the snobby ignorance that her and many other art students often display when they feel that they are above it all or want to do their "own thing". This video seems to me to satirically give relevance to the struggle and learning processes necessary in becoming a truly educated and well-founded artist. What i mean is that i think through all of the acting and joking and references as to how useless or hard some classes were, was really a way of showing how we mature and find that all of the things we felt were not important or did not want to do, really do matter.

The set pieces in between her little talks are relevant too,because they do act kind of like the ridiculous background noise in our heads, popping in at times when you least expect it. I feel like we all probably have silly scenarios in the back of our minds somewhere and they were kind of entertaining.

Overall the video was actually quite annoying, especially when she would use the word like, and drag on forever about nothing and use that stupid voice. I do realize it was done on purpose, but it did get really annoying. The set pieces were a relief for me because it was kind of a break from her monotonous droning voice and they were kind of funny, but the video did bug me a little. Especially since it was nearly an HOUR LONG!