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.

A Film Noir Photo Essay on the Secretive World of Swiss Banks

A Film Noir Photo Essay on the Secretive World of Swiss Banks

The Vaults is a finely crafted multimedia experience of Mark Heneley's photographs of the Swiss banking sector in Zurich. More »

A Colorful Look at the Golden Age of Drag Racing

A Colorful Look at the Golden Age of Drag Racing

Ingenuity in Action, a 1959 documentary from Hot Rod Magazine, covers the national championship in Detroit.  More »

A Vibrant Time-Lapse Tour of Lake Tahoe

A Vibrant Time-Lapse Tour of Lake Tahoe

Beautiful time-lapse photography captures the shores of Lake Tahoe and the ski slopes of the Sierras. More »

What's Cooler Than Wakeboarding? Try It on Icebergs

What's Cooler Than Wakeboarding? Try It on Icebergs

Andy Hurdman, a pro kite surfer, shows off his moves in the icy waters of Glacier Island, Alaska.  More »

A Short Animation About How the NFL Is Like Socialism

A Short Animation About How the NFL Is Like Socialism

Fraser Davidson, a London-based animator, created this unofficial video for Bill Maher's "Irritable Bowl Syndrome." More »

A Mesmerizing Time-Lapse of the Very Large Array

A Mesmerizing Time-Lapse of the Very Large Array

Signal to Noise combines motion graphics with time-lapse footage of one of the largest radio astronomy observatories in the world. More »

Extreme Weather: Episode 6

Extreme Weather: Episode 6

This episode of Green TV's series about global warming and natural disasters covers record snowfall in Alaska, massive tides threatening Tuvalu, and NOAA's storm chasers.  More »

The Joy of Floating Random Things Up Into Space

The Joy of Floating Random Things Up Into Space

Hobbyists and marketers have created a viral video genre of sending mundane objects into space -- including robots and light beer. More »

Fauna: A Dog's Eye View of a Dog Park

Fauna: A Dog's Eye View of a Dog Park

Kelsey Wynns had a simple but brilliant idea: attach a small, wide-angle HD GoPro camera to his dog at the dog park for a unique perspective.  More »

How to Photograph the Invisible—a Quirky Guide From 1940

How to Photograph the Invisible—a Quirky Guide From 1940

Behind the Lens illustrates techniques for photographing what can't be seen with the naked eye, including the movements of falling cats. More »

Transit: Escape from Somalia to Yemen

Transit: Escape from Somalia to Yemen

Photojournalist Espen Rasmussen tells the stories of refugees from Somalia who have crossed the gulf to Yemen. More »

Fauna: The Hidden, Beautiful World of Manatees

Fauna: The Hidden, Beautiful World of Manatees

Sirenia Shadows captures the slow-moving grace of Florida's West Indian manatees with beautiful cinematography. More »

Alexander Calder's Paintings Visualized in 3-D

Alexander Calder's Paintings Visualized in 3-D

Four of Calder's iconic paintings are recreated in three dimensions, using computer animation software  More »

The Solar Storms Heading for Earth in January 2012

The Solar Storms Heading for Earth in January 2012

A compilation of NASA's footage of the explosions on the surface of the sun that are sending waves of charged particles towards Earth, resulting in spectacular Northern Lights More »

Transit: Stories of Displaced People in Georgia

Transit: Stories of Displaced People in Georgia

Photojournalist Espen Rasmussen tells the stories of Georgian families who lost their homes in South Ossetia to the conflict in 2008. More »

Falling in Love, Thanks to a Typo

Falling in Love, Thanks to a Typo

To R.P. Salazar, with Love, an animated short by the Rauch Brothers, is the true story of two strangers who met and fell in love thanks to their nearly identical email addresses. More »

Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator

Database Cinema: An Instant Movie Mashup Generator

Algorithmic Search for Love is an interactive media installation that works like a search engine for movie dialogue (contains some adult language and scenes). More »

The Staggering Numbers Behind Humanity's YouTube Addiction

The Staggering Numbers Behind Humanity's YouTube Addiction

One hour of web video is uploaded to YouTube each second. Keep doing the math, and you get some crazy data.  More »

Transit: A Photojournalist's Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run

Transit: A Photojournalist's Quest to Tell the Stories of People on the Run

Espen Rasmussen has spent seven years documenting displaced people around the world for his mutimedia Transit project.  More »

iPhone Cinema: A Beautiful Animation Shot With Hipstamatic

iPhone Cinema: A Beautiful Animation Shot With Hipstamatic

Yesterday is a color-saturated stop-motion animation shot entirely with the iPhone app Hipstamatic, its built-in filters adding instant nostalgia to everyday scenes More »

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