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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.
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 »
Footage from the massive November 2 protest in which thousands of people flooded into the port of Oakland to shut it down More »
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 »
Inside the process of constructing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, with footage of fearless workmen scaling catwalks high above the bay More »
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 »
Two artists happened upon a flock of starlings, called a murmuration, while canoeing at dusk, and captured "one of nature's greatest and most fleeting phenomena" on video More »
The 255 foot mural by street artist Above reads, "Give a Wall St. banker enough rope and he will hang himself." The video was created by Peter Vahan and Hermes. More »
UK filmmaker Jack Chute collected sound bites from protesters, police, and even Julian Assange, during the first day of Occupy London on October 15 More »
Celebrate the 100th birthday of Chevrolet with this peppy song and dance number, which used to be performed at conventions for Chevrolet sales employees More »
One filmmaker's attempt to piece together the timeline of the escalating conflict between police and protesters in Oakland on October 25 More »
Footage from the peaceful daytime protest that began on November 2 at noon from Berkeley photographer Jonathan Potter More »
A vintage travel film documents the eruptions at Mauna Loa and Kilauea, with amazing footage by photographer Art Carter More »
National Geographic's 7 Billion is a slick infographic look at what the new population benchmark means for our planet More »
NPR's clever illustration of how the world's population grew to seven billion people uses test tubes and colorful liquids. More »
Researchers at the University of Paris demonstrate a "skateboard" that actually hovers, thanks to the forces of quantum levitation More »
See a blazing fire through the eyes of a firefighter in this helmet cam footage from Burn, a documentary about of a fire company in Detroit More »
Burn documents a year in the life of firefighters in Detroit, a city with one of the highest arson rates in the country More »
Protesters weathered an early snowfall on October 29, on day 43 of the occupation of Zuccotti Park More »
This infographic documentary about potential security solutions in the Israel-Palestine conflict is the second chapter in The Atlantic's and the S. Daniel Abraham Center's special report, Is Peace Possible? More »
This mesmerizing video captures pumpkins exploding at 1,000 frames per second. Happy Halloween! More »
