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: 'Your Fate Hurtles Down at You'

Electric Literature: 'Your Fate Hurtles Down at You'

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine, like this "trailer" for Jim Shepard's "Your Fate Hurtles Down at You," animated by Jonathan Ashley  More »

A Literary Magazine for the YouTube Generation

A Literary Magazine for the YouTube Generation

Electric Literature embraces digital media in publishing and produces web videos inspired by the short stories in its magazine. Here, animator Jonathan Ashley brings a sentence from Michael Cunningham's "Olympia" to life More »

Police Clash With Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Protest

Police Clash With Berkeley Students at Occupy Cal Protest

Raw footage from the Berkeley student paper, The Daily Californian, documents violent confrontation between police in riot gear and students on November 9 More »

Public Safety 101: How to Deal With Emotions

Public Safety 101: How to Deal With Emotions

An excerpt from a 1984 animated film by the Department of Defense, Man and Safety, talks about the psychological challenges of working in defense More »

Public Safety 101: How California Earthquakes Work

Public Safety 101: How California Earthquakes Work

NASA's educational film The Earthquake Below contrasts vibrant scenes from San Francisco in 1975 with dramatic footage of the 1971 San Fernando earthquake More »

Public Safety 101: How to Survive Natural Disasters of All Kinds

Public Safety 101: How to Survive Natural Disasters of All Kinds

The U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency embraces the aesthetic of the times in this super stylized, New Age-inspired overview of disaster preparedness from 1972 More »

Public Safety 101: What Not to Do With Lasers

Public Safety 101: What Not to Do With Lasers

NASA's wonderfully trippy industrial guide, Laser Safety, includes retro graphics and uncharacteristically groovy music More »

Public Safety 101: How to Prepare Your Farm for Nuclear Attack

Public Safety 101: How to Prepare Your Farm for Nuclear Attack

A collection of public safety announcements from 1965 uses puppets to illustrate how to prepare for a nuclear attack More »

Public Safety 101: How to Survive a Nuclear Explosion

Public Safety 101: How to Survive a Nuclear Explosion

Perhaps the most well known public safety film from the Cold War, Duck and Cover shows Bert the turtle teaching children what to do in the event of a nuclear attack More »

A Montage of Astronauts Falling on the Moon

A Montage of Astronauts Falling on the Moon

YouTube user SaturnApollo has compiled a blooper reel of astronauts tripping over Moon rocks More »

Protesters Clash Over Vandalism in Oakland

Protesters Clash Over Vandalism in Oakland

Footage from the November 2 strike in Oakland, in which "black bloc"-style demonstrators vandalize a Whole Foods, only to clash with other protesters advocating nonviolence More »

Bullet-Stopping Books: Can Literature Literally Save Your Life?

Bullet-Stopping Books: Can Literature Literally Save Your Life?

Electric Literature embraces publishing in the digital age, so it's fitting that their promotional video explores the Internet-friendly theme of shooting stuff with guns More »

The Asteroid That Will Zip Past Earth Tonight

The Asteroid That Will Zip Past Earth Tonight

A short video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gives us the scoop on the asteroid that will fly past our planet on November 8, 2011 More »

The Hidden Infrastructure of the Internet

The Hidden Infrastructure of the Internet

A rare look inside one of the nondescript buildings that house the major hubs of Internet connectivity More »

When Telegrams Ruled American Communications

When Telegrams Ruled American Communications

This 1950s promotional documentary by Western Union celebrates the telegram's role in American society More »

Is Peace Possible? Chapter 3: Refugees

Is Peace Possible? Chapter 3: Refugees

This infographic documentary about potential solutions to the refugee situation in the Israel-Palestine conflict is the third chapter in The Atlantic's and the S. Daniel Abraham Center's special report, Is Peace Possible? More »

Scenes From the Occupation of the Port of Oakland

Scenes From the Occupation of the Port of Oakland

Footage from the massive November 2 protest in which thousands of people flooded into the port of Oakland to shut it down More »

Surf Video Suspends Time Like 'The Matrix'

Surf Video Suspends Time Like 'The Matrix'

A gorgeous surf video from Rip Curl captures surfing with a multi-camera setup for a Matrix "bullet time" effect that freezes and orbits the surfers in mid air More »

Amazing 1930s Film About Building the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Amazing 1930s Film About Building the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Inside the process of constructing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with footage of fearless workmen scaling catwalks high above the bay More »

Cut Brooklyn's Quest for the Perfect Handmade Kitchen Knife

Cut Brooklyn's Quest for the Perfect Handmade Kitchen Knife

Beginning with an urge just to "make stuff," Joel Bukiewicz started making knives by hand in a Brooklyn studio. As he perfected his craft, his business, Cut Brooklyn, thrived More »

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