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 Gorgeous Floating Crystal Inspired by Alexander Graham Bell's Kites

A Gorgeous Floating Crystal Inspired by Alexander Graham Bell's Kites

A beautiful video by James O’Garra about Heather and Ivan Morison's Little Shining Man, a work of art that can fly More »

How Hand-Tailored Style Keeps One Brooklyn Factory in Business

How Hand-Tailored Style Keeps One Brooklyn Factory in Business

A short documentary looks at how one family-owned business is hanging on  More »

On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan's Cosmic Mix Tape

On Space, Love, and Carl Sagan's Cosmic Mix Tape

Penny Lane's The Voyagers tells the story of the 1977 NASA project to launch two golden records holding a wealth of human culture into space  More »

A Short Animation About Road Rage

A Short Animation About Road Rage

Nick Khoo dedicates this video to "all those jerks who cut me off on the road ... you know who you are."  More »

Visit the Oldest Piano Shop in Paris

Visit the Oldest Piano Shop in Paris

La Mer de Pianos, or The Sea of Pianos, is a meditative portrait of Marc Manceaux, who has spent the past 28 years working in his piano shop in Paris More »

Girl Walk // All Day: Get Your Parade On

Girl Walk // All Day: Get Your Parade On

Chapter nine of the dance film Girl Walk // All Day culminates in the girl crashing a parade for a festive, eclectic dance party More »

A Time-Lapse Tour of Murmansk's Industrial Arctic Vistas

A Time-Lapse Tour of Murmansk's Industrial Arctic Vistas

Murmansk in Motion features the frozen landscapes of the Russian port city, the largest city north of the Arctic Circle   More »

The Joy of Dumpster Diving

The Joy of Dumpster Diving

The Perennial Plate, a series about sustainable eating created by Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine, takes a look at the wealth of food that grocery stores throw out every day. More »

A World of Eerie Light-Painted Creatures in 'Rippled'

A World of Eerie Light-Painted Creatures in 'Rippled'

Oh Yeah Wow's music video for All India Radio consists of gorgeous long-exposure photographs of hand-drawn shapes. More »

Fauna: Orangutans With iPads

Fauna: Orangutans With iPads

The Milwaukee County Zoo has a novel approach to keeping its bored primates engaged and active: iPads More »

Kodak's Swinging '60s Commercial for Flashcube

Kodak's Swinging '60s Commercial for Flashcube

A Kodak commercial from the sixties features its Instamatic camera and Flashcube technology -- four flash bulbs in one, to make party photography a snap. More »

The Kodak Home Movie System of the 1950s

The Kodak Home Movie System of the 1950s

"Fun's more fun, when you save it in pictures!" goes the theme song of this 1959 ad for Kodak's easy-to-use consumer cameras More »

Go Go Gadget Dance: One Song, Four Dance Videos

Go Go Gadget Dance: One Song, Four Dance Videos

Yak Films documents street dance around the world, and here they take one track, Ta-ku's version of the Inspector Gadget theme, and shoot four styles of dance -- hip hop, popping, krumping and toprock / house. Click through for the rest of the videos.  More »

Before They Were Famous

Before They Were Famous

This montage of cameos features 25 actors before they were household names, including Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Seth Rogen, and more More »

Two Brothers' Hilarious Commentary on Their Old Home Videos

Two Brothers' Hilarious Commentary on Their Old Home Videos

John and Richard Ramsey revisit their old VHS home videos from childhood, adding their own pitch-perfect DVD-style voiceover. Click through for two more videos. More »

One Photographer's Journey Around the World in Over 6,000 Photos

One Photographer's Journey Around the World in Over 6,000 Photos

Abandoning a successful business career, Kien Lam quit his job and spent a year traveling around the world, shooting stunning time-lapse videos in 17 countries.  More »

Amazing Underwater Video Turns Ice Fishing Into Performance Art

Amazing Underwater Video Turns Ice Fishing Into Performance Art

Divers in Finland create a surrealist scene under the ice of Lake Saarijärvi. More »

Playmobil Joy Division Plays 'Transmission'

Playmobil Joy Division Plays 'Transmission'

This music video faithfully recreates a 1979 live recording of Joy Division's "Transmission" with Playmobil figures. More »

Electric Literature:  'A Fable for the Living'

Electric Literature: 'A Fable for the Living'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Kim Young Ha brings a single sentence from Kevin Brockmeier's "A Fable for the Living" to life. More »

An Animation That Plays on the Spokes of a Bicycle

An Animation That Plays on the Spokes of a Bicycle

Inspired by the earliest animation techniques, Katy Beveridge designed cutout patterns for bicycle wheels that, when recorded on video at 25 frames per second, create an illusion of movement  More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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