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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.
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 »
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 »
Athan Merrick and Nicolas Teichrob created Parallels in just seven days, blending stunning footage with inventive editing for a surprisingly polished result More »
In Burning Man: Rites Of Passage - Night, Ahmed ElHusseiny captures rare scenes from the festival at night More »
In Burning Man: Rites Of Passage - Day, Ahmed ElHusseiny braved the heat and dust of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada with a DSLR to capture dreamy scenes from the festival More »
In MOAB, Sung Kim captures stunning time-lapse vistas of Utah's national parks More »
In the spirit of celebrating, rather than ranking, our eclectic mix of content, here is a selection of standout videos in no particular order More »
Clay's Corner in Brasstown, North Carolina, hosts an unusual New Year's Eve tradition More »
This episode of Green TV's series about global warming and natural disasters covers floods in the Philippines, severe storms in Scotland, drought along the Danube, and the worst weather disasters of 2011 More »
This stop-motion music video for New Jackson's "The Night Mail" by Dublin-based animator Fergal Brennan explores how images degrade when photocopied repeatedly More »
Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, writer and visual artist Carson Mell brings a single sentence from his story "The West" to life. More »
How the U.S.'s earliest spy satellites monitored the Soviet Union without computers or digital cameras More »
Astronaut Mike Fossum shares how he shoots those stunning images of Earth from the International Space Station More »
In chapter eight of the dance film Girl Walk // All Day, the girl hits up the mall for a makeover and a new outfit to take the town by storm More »
A lush music video for New Look's "Nap on the Bow" creates a rippling underwater world with Xbox's 3D camera More »
A dreamy three-minute tour of South Korea's capital city More »
20syl and Francis Cutter's video for C2C layers clips of the band playing for a perfectly timed, choreographed spectacle that parallels the music More »
Apollo 8's astronauts celebrated Christmas in space during the mission that set the groundwork for Apollo 11 and witnessed the first Earthrise in human history More »
Maisie Crow's short documentary, Half-Lives: The Chernobyl Workers Now, tells the story of the community that survived the Chernobyl disaster More »
Obscura Digital used 44 projectors to map these images onto the architecture of the Mosque for the 40th anniversary of the U.A.E. More »
