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 short animation seeks to convey one simple thing: happiness. Commissioned by the F5 Festival, it was created through a variety of animation techniques by Mixtape Club, also known as Michelle Higa, Chris Smith, and Jesse Casey. They describe the process in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
Kim Pimmel is a designer, filmmaker, and inventor whose Compressed series taps the science of magnetism, capillary action, and fluid dynamics to create gorgeous cinematic time-lapse videos that look out of this world. He explains how he used soap and ferrofluid to create this one in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
The Salton Sea was once a tourist destination, a "Palm Springs with water." Now the largest lake in California is an environmental disaster: The water is toxic and the surrounding area abandoned. Photojournalist and filmmaker Jim Lo Scalzo contrasts these two visions, layering archival footage with new images of the landscape. He discusses his work in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
Shot by Spanish photographer Bernat Eguíluz during a trip to Iceland, this video is full of stunning time-lapse landscapes from around the island. He describes the process of making it in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
Directed by John Ford, this Academy Award-winning documentary follows the battle with footage shot by Navy cameramen. Ford served in the U.S. Navy as a commander and documentary filmmaker during the war, and in this excerpt he was actually wounded by enemy fire while filming. For photographs of Midway, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective. More »
Technology editor Alexis Madrigal tries out the new Melon Meter iPhone application at the local Whole Foods. More »
An excerpt from a 1992 documentary about computing follows the meteoric rise of Apple, begining with Jobs and Wozniak selling circuit boards at a 1976 convention for computer hobbyists More »
This excerpt of a video from the International Space Station reveals the unbelievable size of Hurricane Irene as it approaches the eastern coast of the U.S. This video was taken from 230 miles above Earth on August 24, 2011. More »
This one's perfect for a rainy day: people jumping into water -- in slow motion. Directing duo Harrys talk about the making of the video in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
This architectural animation reveals the finished 9/11 Memorial and Museum, as well as the new World Trade Center. Two reflecting pools fill the footprints of the Twin Towers, surrounded by a sustainable forest. More »
Miguel Rios, an engineer at Twitter, created this visualization of earthquake-related Tweets as they rippled across the country in the first 30 seconds after the quake on August 23rd, 2011. More »
This weightless, dreamlike aerial footage was shot from a Hexacopter. Developed by William Thielicke, a Phd student in Germany, the Hexacopter is a remote control "micro air vehicle" with six rotating blades. Thielicke has made the project available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share-Alike license on his website, where you can read more about the technology behind the video. More »
This one-minute time-lapse video documents the construction of the 9/11 Memorial over the course of 2004 to 2011. In it, you can see the twin square pools being constructed inside the footprints of the towers, and a sustainable "forest" spring up around them. More »
"The opposite of beauty is not ugly. The opposite of beauty is indifference. And we're trying not to be indifferent about this." This charming short documentary follows two artists, Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, as they salvage washed-up pieces of plastic from a Northern California beach and transform them into art. Documentary filmmaker Eric Slatkin discusses the making of the film in an interview with The Atlantic. More »
An entirely subjective top ten list of various efforts to program machines to shake it More »
Vimeo's Video School will teach you everything you ever wanted to know about lenses but were afraid to ask More »
YouTube's new interface makes simple PronunciationBook series shine More »
Fake Criterions collects fabulously designed DVD covers created by fans -- for films that are not actually distributed by the Criterion Collection More »
The Atlantic brings its sensibility to the exciting world of visual storytelling More »
OK Go drops another viral sensation, tapping experimental dance company Pilobolus More »
