Thanks for the feedback.
I was going for the "narrative" style design for this, I intentionally didn't put all the information "above the fold" like the original site did:
I was going for the "narrative" style design for this, I intentionally didn't put all the information "above the fold" like the original site did:
UX people should step in to correct me if needed: to me it feels that a human face trumps about everything else on a webpage; the attention shoots to it and our sensibilities adjust to the lighting on the face. That leaves me sitting in a small dark box looking out of a round hole, and the lighting/contrast information from the coffee video gets rejected as incoherent.
It was actually quite interesting to have the two of them to compare.
I hope you have taken him up on his offer of coffee! It would be the gentlemanly thing to do.