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.

Meet DJ Wika, a 74-Year-Old Lady Who Throws Parties at a Warsaw Nightclub

Meet DJ Wika, a 74-Year-Old Lady Who Throws Parties at a Warsaw Nightclub

Wika Szmit's enthusiasm for music, dance, and fun is simply contagious.  More »

A Freaky Visual Journey Through a Human Skull, One MRI 'Slice' at a Time

A Freaky Visual Journey Through a Human Skull, One MRI 'Slice' at a Time

Christopher Powers transformed 2-D and 3-D scans of his body into an unnerving experimental film. More »

A Beautiful Visual Collage Celebrates the Unsung Hero of Sports

A Beautiful Visual Collage Celebrates the Unsung Hero of Sports

Everynone's latest video, Ball, is as simple (and charming) as it gets.  More »

Virtuoso Street Musicians Operate as a 'Human Jukebox'

Virtuoso Street Musicians Operate as a 'Human Jukebox'

Listeners can request hits by Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga, and Bach by dropping cash in jars.  More »

What Martians Love About Earth: Oil and Capitalism

What Martians Love About Earth: Oil and Capitalism

A Martian travels to Earth to discover the wonders of American cars and gasoline in this 1950s cartoon sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute. More »

Perfume: 'An Ethereal Corset Trapping Everyone in the Same Unnatural Shape'

Perfume: 'An Ethereal Corset Trapping Everyone in the Same Unnatural Shape'

Christopher Brosius hates conventional perfume so much he started a company to create scents inspired by unexpected objects, spaces, and abstract ideas. More »

A Time-Lapse Portrait of Dubai at Night, in 20,000+ Still Images

A Time-Lapse Portrait of Dubai at Night, in 20,000+ Still Images

Filmmaker Richard Bentley spent three weeks photographing the glittering cityscape to make this video.  More »

Take a Nap Already (Science Said So!)

Take a Nap Already (Science Said So!)

How "power naps" boost productivity, memory, and creativity   More »

Missed Curiosity's Touchdown? Watch the Thrilling Play-by-Play in Just 2.5 Minutes

Missed Curiosity's Touchdown? Watch the Thrilling Play-by-Play in Just 2.5 Minutes

NASA packs all the drama of the Mars rover's landing into one jaw-dropping video.  More »

The Next Best Thing to a Road Trip Around Iceland: This Stunning Time-Lapse Video

The Next Best Thing to a Road Trip Around Iceland: This Stunning Time-Lapse Video

Photographer Henry Jun Wah Lee captures the northern island in all its stark, color-saturated glory.  More »

The U.S. War Department's Archival Footage of the Bombing of Hiroshima

The U.S. War Department's Archival Footage of the Bombing of Hiroshima

The 1946 film, A Tale of Two Cities, documents the devastation caused by the atom bomb but avoids showing the human cost of the attacks.  More »

Curiosity Lands on Mars, NASA Celebrates

Curiosity Lands on Mars, NASA Celebrates

Engineers at the Mars Science Laboratory rejoice after successfully landing a "car-sized" robot on our neighboring planet. More »

Why Are Google, Tumblr, and Now Facebook All Making Video 'Stories'?

Why Are Google, Tumblr, and Now Facebook All Making Video 'Stories'?

This moving account of one man's quest to regain his memory after a devastating illness also happens to be an ad for Facebook.  More »

The Wall Street Journal's Bootleg Video Coverage of the Olympics

The Wall Street Journal's Bootleg Video Coverage of the Olympics

The Homemade Highlights series recreates key stories from the Olympic Games with popsicle-stick puppets and pompoms.   More »

Mark Twain Looking Pretty Cool in a Silent Film From 1909

Mark Twain Looking Pretty Cool in a Silent Film From 1909

In a clip shot by none other than Thomas Edison, the author and Atlantic contributor goes for a stroll, smoking a cigar in his signature white suit. More »

The Future of X: Allison Carruth on Art-Science Collaboration

The Future of X: Allison Carruth on Art-Science Collaboration

The UCLA professor describes cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary work being done at the intersection of biology, art, and ethics. More »

Who Killed the Tevatron Particle Accelerator?

Who Killed the Tevatron Particle Accelerator?

A documentary eulogy for the world's second most powerful particle collider -- and the golden age of science in America.  More »

London, Then and Now: 1920s Silent Film vs. Aerial Footage From Today

London, Then and Now: 1920s Silent Film vs. Aerial Footage From Today

Visit the historic sites of the city as they looked after WWI in this rare travel footage from the Prelinger Archive. More »

A Paradigm Shift: YouTube's First Live Streaming Cam Is Corgis, Not Cats

A Paradigm Shift: YouTube's First Live Streaming Cam Is Corgis, Not Cats

The behemoth video sharing site has launched its first 24-7 live streaming video feed -- The Pet Collective's corgi puppy cam. More »

An Entire City Suspended in Time to Remember the Warsaw Uprising

An Entire City Suspended in Time to Remember the Warsaw Uprising

Residents of the Polish capital pause for a minute of silence to commemorate the 63-day fight to overthrow Nazi occupation that began on August 1, 1944. More »

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Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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