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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg - Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is an 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.
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An Amazing Time-Lapse Video of Mushrooms Growing

By Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Feb 2 2012, 2:42 PM ET Comment

Fantastic Fungi is an excerpt from a feature documentary about Paul Stamets, a mycologist and author, by Louie Schwartzberg. The video pairs beautiful footage of mushrooms growing with an interview with Stamets, who makes a passionate argument for understanding and valuing nature's ecosystems. 

In 2008, Stamets gave a TED Talk, Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World: 

For more films by Louie Schwartzberg, visit http://www.movingart.tv/.

Via PopTech.

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