Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She curates the Video channel. More

Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg's work in media spans documentary television, advertising, and print. As a producer in the Viewer Created Content division of Al Gore's Current TV, she acquired and produced short documentaries by independent filmmakers around the world. Post-Current, she worked as a producer and strategist at Urgent Content, developing consumer-created and branded nonfiction campaigns for clients including Cisco, Ford, and GOOD Magazine. She studied filmmaking and digital media at Harvard University, where she was co-creator and editor in chief of H BOMB Magazine.

60 Years of Presidential Attack Ads, in One Video

60 Years of Presidential Attack Ads, in One Video

A revealing montage of six decade's worth of negative campaign ads, compiled from a retrospective at Museum of the Moving Image.  More »

Music, Art, and Craftsmanship Converge in 'the Gentleman's Boombox'

Music, Art, and Craftsmanship Converge in 'the Gentleman's Boombox'

A documentary portrait of Floyd A. Davis, who builds unique sound systems out of vintage suitcases and trunks.  More »

A Video Travel Diary of Camping in New York City

A Video Travel Diary of Camping in New York City

One couple's quest to find serenity in nature just a couple miles from Manhattan More »

Breathtaking Projection-Mapped Video Graffiti Transforms European Cities

Breathtaking Projection-Mapped Video Graffiti Transforms European Cities

Art collective Sweatshoppe uses ingenious infrared tracking to smear digital video over concrete surfaces with paint rollers.  More »

An Animated Vignette About Hanging Onto Your Real Name

An Animated Vignette About Hanging Onto Your Real Name

A nonfiction short from StoryCorps recounts how Mexican American students often had to change their names to Anglicized versions in the 1950s. More »

A Dreamy Time-Lapse Study of the Most Beautiful Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest

A Dreamy Time-Lapse Study of the Most Beautiful Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest

Photographer John Eklund captures the stunning vistas of Oregon and Washington by day and by night.  More »

GIFs + Sound = a Hilarious Video (and Probably Somebody's Media Studies Thesis)

GIFs + Sound = a Hilarious Video (and Probably Somebody's Media Studies Thesis)

Born of the hive mind of Reddit and the editing skills of Rasta_Pasta, this video combines the manic looping of GIFs with appropriately ridiculous audio clips (contains strong language).  More »

The Elegant and Freaky Art of Mannequin Design

The Elegant and Freaky Art of Mannequin Design

Ralph Pucci, creator of high-end fashion mannequins, describes how the role of the figures has changed over past decades.  More »

Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse: A Supercut

Cinematic Visions of the Apocalypse: A Supercut

Thanks to CGI, Hollywood's depictions of the end of the world are more explosive than ever.  More »

Daddy, Where Do Babies Come From? This Handy 1940s Sex Ed Film Is Here to Help

Daddy, Where Do Babies Come From? This Handy 1940s Sex Ed Film Is Here to Help

With today's debate raging over reproductive rights, try revisiting the basics of human reproduction in this classic educational film.  More »

A Whirlwind Travel Diary Shot in Morocco

A Whirlwind Travel Diary Shot in Morocco

Photographer Alfonso Calza captures vivid impressions of the African country on video. More »

The Jet Propulsion Lab Is Way Weirder (and Awesomer) Than You Even Imagined

The Jet Propulsion Lab Is Way Weirder (and Awesomer) Than You Even Imagined

One man's quest to map the "mysteries and curiosities" of the cutting-edge space research facility.  More »

A Music Video Powered by Pure Color and Rhythm

A Music Video Powered by Pure Color and Rhythm

David Wax Museum's 'Harder Before It Gets Easier' is a deceptively simple visual feast.  More »

The Gorgeous 'Mystery Film Experiment' From Icelandic Group Sigur Rós

The Gorgeous 'Mystery Film Experiment' From Icelandic Group Sigur Rós

Henry Jun Wah Lee's stunning cinematography of a remote Japanese island is just one video in a series for the band's latest album. More »

What If Google Maps Went Live? A Video Imagines Real-Time Surveillance

What If Google Maps Went Live? A Video Imagines Real-Time Surveillance

A public art event in the Netherlands is documented from the perspective of a Google satellite. More »

An Action-Packed Short Animation Created Entirely From Logos

An Action-Packed Short Animation Created Entirely From Logos

Logorama, an Academy Award-winning short, is a feat of visual storytelling.  More »

How Vimeo Built the Interactive Old Spice 'Muscle Music' Video That's Crushing the Internet

How Vimeo Built the Interactive Old Spice 'Muscle Music' Video That's Crushing the Internet

Wieden and Kennedy turned to Vimeo to create the "first of its kind" player behind their latest viral campaign. More »

Time-Lapse Video of the Melting 'Middle Class' Ice Sculpture at the RNC

Time-Lapse Video of the Melting 'Middle Class' Ice Sculpture at the RNC

Two artists, Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese, are making a statement at both parties' political conventions with "temporary monuments" to America's struggling middle class.  More »

Hurricane Isaac as Seen From the International Space Station

Hurricane Isaac as Seen From the International Space Station

NASA's August 27 update from the ISS reveals the scale of the storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico. More »

The Dude Who Inspired 'The Dude' in the Coen Brothers' 'The Big Lebowski'

The Dude Who Inspired 'The Dude' in the Coen Brothers' 'The Big Lebowski'

A documentary about the life and times of Jeff Dowd, sixties radical, indie film promoter, and world-famous Dude.  More »

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