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.

Eye Candy for Coffee Snobs: Stumptown's Colombian Source

Eye Candy for Coffee Snobs: Stumptown's Colombian Source

Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Portland, Oregon, travels to the lush hills of Colombia to visit a community where coffee is a way of life More »

A 1975 Look at America's Energy Crisis

A 1975 Look at America's Energy Crisis

When the Circuit Breaks explores America's dependence on nonrenewable energy, promoting conservation and independence from foreign oil More »

Tiny, Tilt-Shift Athens

Tiny, Tilt-Shift Athens

The Acropolis never looked as adorable as in Athens: The Little Great City, a short tilt-shift video about the ancient city More »

Going Green 1949 Style: Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames

Going Green 1949 Style: Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames

Before Ice Cube became a rapper, he studied architectural drafting. Here he shares his take the ingenuity of the Eames House. More »

How Wind Turbines Work

How Wind Turbines Work

A short video from the U.S. Department of Energy illustrates how the 130' long blades of wind turbines generate power More »

When Graffiti Attacks

When Graffiti Attacks

Brush With Death uses clever special effects to choreograph a fight scene between a real, three-dimensional hero and a two-dimensional graffiti villain More »

Skateboarding Through Downtown Tokyo at Night

Skateboarding Through Downtown Tokyo at Night

Tokyo's neon-saturated downtown is a psychedelic backdrop for this skate video More »

Obsolete Gadgets Play 'House of the Rising Sun'

Obsolete Gadgets Play 'House of the Rising Sun'

This virtuoso rendition of "The House of the Rising Sun" uses old machines as instruments, with "absolutely no sampling or audio effects" More »

An Original Newsreel About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

An Original Newsreel About the Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Featuring footage from the U.S. Navy, this newsreel depicts the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 More »

'Girl Walk // All Day' Catches a Boat to Manhattan

'Girl Walk // All Day' Catches a Boat to Manhattan

Chapter two of the dance film Girl Walk // All Day features the girl hitching a ride to New York City on the Staten Island Ferry  More »

Exploring the Potential of Animated E-Books

Exploring the Potential of Animated E-Books

The Mysteris of Harris Burdick, an enigmatic picture book, is brought to life with subtle animated elements More »

The Creation of a Portrait Made Up of 3.2 Million Ink Dots

The Creation of a Portrait Made Up of 3.2 Million Ink Dots

Miguel Endara's drawing "Hero" is a portrait of his father rendered in a painstaking pointillist style, one dot at a time More »

Deep Heat: Geothermal Energy Explained

Deep Heat: Geothermal Energy Explained

An animated video from ScienceNordic illustrates ways to extract geothermal energy, from volcanic heat just under the surface of the Earth to radioactive heat five kilometers below More »

Time-Lapse of Insane Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City

Time-Lapse of Insane Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City

10,000 RAW images make up one spectacular time-lapse video of Ho Chi Minh City More »

A Day in the Life of a Family-Run Dairy Farm

A Day in the Life of a Family-Run Dairy Farm

The Perennial Plate, a web series about sustainable food, visits an Ohio dairy farm run by an Apostolic family with eight children More »

Electric Literature: 'The Tunnel'

Electric Literature: 'The Tunnel'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Luca DiPierro brings a single sentence from Jenny Offill's "The Tunnel" to life More »

Escape to Venice for a Dreamy 5-Minute Vacation

Escape to Venice for a Dreamy 5-Minute Vacation

Vimeo user FKY's gorgeous cinematography makes for a stunning travel diary of a day in Venice More »

Electric Literature: 'Little Things'

Electric Literature: 'Little Things'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Vance Reeser brings a single sentence from Matt Sumell's "Little Things" to life More »

Extreme Weather: Episode 2

Extreme Weather: Episode 2

A new web series, Extreme Weather, looks at the weather-related disasters that seem to be plaguing the planet with increasing frequency due to global warming. This episode covers tornadoes in the U.S., flooding in Pakistan, and drought in Africa More »

Isa Leshko's Extraordinary Photographs of Elderly Animals

Isa Leshko's Extraordinary Photographs of Elderly Animals

A short documentary about Isa Leshko, who explores themes of mortality and aging in her gorgeous portraits of aging farm animals More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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