Café Maestro

Gallery

The whole roll

Every still here is a frame lifted out of the ten-second film, kept in the workspace media library rather than in the site bundle — which is why the page is a few kilobytes and the pictures are not. Click anything. Arrow keys move, Esc closes.

The Café Maestro film The film — ten seconds, sound on
A folded paper coffee cup steaming in front of the Eiffel Tower 01 · The cup, and the tower behind it The origami cup under a scatter of paper stars, croissants and a cherry tart beside it 02 · Stars over the first pour A trail of light arcing over a Paris street lined with striped awnings 03 · The light goes up over the terrace A glowing cyan wireframe of a building standing on the plaza, paper birds flying past 04 · The blueprint, before anything is real The finished papercraft building lit with circuit traces beside a gold crane 05 · Folded, wired, standing up The Café Maestro title card over the Paris square 06 · Café Maestro — where AI brews innovation

How this works

A lightbox in 60 lines

Each tile is an ordinary <a> pointing straight at the image or the film, so it is keyboard-reachable and screen-reader-announced with no extra work — and it still does something useful if the script never arrives. The viewer traps focus while it is open, returns it to the tile you came from when it closes, and tears the <video> element down on close so nothing keeps playing behind your back.

With JavaScript switched off you get the grid, the captions, and links that open the full-size media directly — nothing here is load-bearing.

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