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.

Electric Literature: 'Love'

Electric Literature: 'Love'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, artist Jonathan Ashley brings a single sentence from Stephen O'Connor's "Love" to life More »

Behind the Scenes of NASA's Mars Rover Launch

Behind the Scenes of NASA's Mars Rover Launch

Rocket and Rover Ready for Flight, a quick video from NASA, shows preparations for the launch of the newest Mars rover, Curiosity More »

Bryan John Appleby's 'Honey Jars,' Created by OMG! Everywhere!

Bryan John Appleby's 'Honey Jars,' Created by OMG! Everywhere!

Shelby, a talking whale, stars in this imaginative music video for Bryan John Appleby's "Honey Jars," created by 12 kids during the OMG! Everywhere! music video summer camp More »

OMG! Cameras Everywhere! Music Video Summer Camp

OMG! Cameras Everywhere! Music Video Summer Camp

What happens when established music video directors team up with 12 kids for a weeklong summer camp about making music videos? Check out their "trailer" to find out ... More »

Correatown's 'Play,' Created by the Kids of OMG! Everywhere!

Correatown's 'Play,' Created by the Kids of OMG! Everywhere!

This awesome house party-inspired music video for Correatown's "Play" was created by 12 kids working together with established music video directors during the one-week OMG! Everywhere! summer camp More »

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 »

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