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.

Celebrating Food, Work, and the Best Sea Urchin Ever

Celebrating Food, Work, and the Best Sea Urchin Ever

The Perennial Plate, a web series about sustainable food, shares a "day in the life" on the road More »

Electric Literature: 'The Cows'

Electric Literature: 'The Cows'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, artist Donna K. brings a single sentence from Lydia Davis's "The Cows" to life More »

The Best Jim Henson Movie You've Never Seen

The Best Jim Henson Movie You've Never Seen

In which Henson paints an elephant pink, jumps off a diving board in a top hat and tails, and rides a pogo stick in a gorilla suit More »

Jim Henson's 1969 Guide to How to Make a Muppet

Jim Henson's 1969 Guide to How to Make a Muppet

Jim Henson shows you how to make Muppets out of everyday objects like rubber bands and tennis balls in this 15-minute special More »

How to Kill Your Own Turkey, and Why You Should Try It

How to Kill Your Own Turkey, and Why You Should Try It

This graphic but insightful documentary from The Perennial Plate takes us to LTD Farm, where consumers kill their own birds More »

Electric Literature: 'Three Girls'

Electric Literature: 'Three Girls'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, animator Alice Cohen brings a single sentence from Marisa Silver's "Three Girls" to life More »

A Toy Robot's Cross-Country Road Trip, via Google Street View

A Toy Robot's Cross-Country Road Trip, via Google Street View

Like a Toy Story for the Internet age, Tom Jenkins's short film Address Is Approximate tells the whimsical and inspiring story of one toy's journey to the California coast More »

NASA's Rocket Launch Carpool—in a Vintage Airstream 'Astrovan'

NASA's Rocket Launch Carpool—in a Vintage Airstream 'Astrovan'

This modified Airstream van has been delivering astronauts to the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center for 27 years More »

4 Synchronized Camera Angles of the UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

4 Synchronized Camera Angles of the UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident

Andy Baio synchronized four YouTube videos of the UC Davis protest on November 18, so one can watch events unfold from multiple, side-by-side perspectives More »

Police Arrest Aerialist for Performing Above the Williamsburg Bridge

Police Arrest Aerialist for Performing Above the Williamsburg Bridge

A short documentary captures Seanna Sharpe's jaw-dropping, and totally illegal, acrobatics performance 285 feet above the Williamsburg Bridge, followed by her arrest More »

Stunning Time-Lapse Mosaic of the Sky on Every Day of the Year

Stunning Time-Lapse Mosaic of the Sky on Every Day of the Year

Ken Murphy custom-designed the technology to capture this matrix of 360 24-hour time-lapses of the sky over the course of a year. Find out how he did it  More »

Responses to the UC Davis Pepper Spray Video

Responses to the UC Davis Pepper Spray Video

This footage of a police officer calmly pepper spraying students during a peaceful protest on November 18 at UC Davis went viral over the weekend, and now has over a million views on YouTube More »

Fauna: The Central Park Zoo's Baby Penguins

Fauna: The Central Park Zoo's Baby Penguins

The Wildlife Conservation Society brings us a short documentary about the eight baby penguins at the Central Park Zoo More »

Fauna: A Parliament of Owls

Fauna: A Parliament of Owls

This beautiful video about owls includes one little owl that likes to cuddle More »

Fauna: Hip Hop Dressage

Fauna: Hip Hop Dressage

YouTube user philpheburbs pairs a winning performance from a dressage competition with an explicit, but perfectly timed, hip hop track for a hilarious effect  More »

A News Show About Climate Change and Natural Disasters

A News Show About Climate Change and Natural Disasters

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 floods in Thailand, the October snowstorm in the northeast U.S., dust storms in Texas, and the coldest place on Earth More »

Seeper's Interactive LED Wall

Seeper's Interactive LED Wall

Seeper merges art and technology in interactive installations like this LED wall they created in London's Soho More »

Electric Literature: 'The Comedian'

Electric Literature: 'The Comedian'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, Myles David Jewell of Pennington Productions creates a trailer-like montage of found footage for Colson Whitehead's "The Comedian"  More »

The Raid on Zuccotti Park Set to 'New York, New York'

The Raid on Zuccotti Park Set to 'New York, New York'

Documentary filmmaker Casey Neistat pairs footage of the scene at Zuccotti Park between 1am and 6am on November 15 with Sinatra's "New York, New York" for an ironic twist More »

On the Beauty of Old Things

On the Beauty of Old Things

Kenyan Lewis and Grace Kelsey, vintage collectors and designers in Accord, New York, live in the dreamy world of faded Americana that they also create in their work More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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