An animated video from the Ontario Science Centre explains how the Olympic flame came to be weatherproof, safe, and of course, photogenic. In recent years, the torch relay has made it to such exotic locations as the Great Barrier Reef and Mt. Everest, and its current incarnation traveled a circuitous 12,875-kilometer route before arriving in London.
For more videos from the Ontario Science Centre, visit the YouTube channel.
Via Pop Tech.
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.
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