Poetic Invention

A true story · A Cri-One film

Poetic Invention

AI Made It Real

For seventeen years, nobody bought them. He never stopped making them.

Seventeen years ago, a man in Georgia put his inventions up for sale. Nobody came. He didn't make noise about it — he made more inventions, filed them by hand, printed them in books so the record could never be erased.

Then the machines everyone was afraid of arrived, and he did the one thing nobody expected: he pulled out a chair. This film is the record of that moment — told in his own words, scored with his own music, every frame rendered on the same machine that helped build the work it shows.

It is not a film about artificial intelligence. It is a film about what was real all along — and the morning the world finally had a way to see it.

• PremiereSaturday, November 28, 2026 · 7:00 PM Eastern
• For sale since2009
• CopyrightedU.S. Copyright Reg. TX 9-642-452, CGB Mathematical Depositions Complete 2026
• Patent pendingDozens of U.S. patent applications, filed by himself
• WhereOnly at cri-one.com, for ticket holders signed in to their account
• Ticket$12
• Made withAI video, rendered on our own GPU

The record

None of this asks to be believed. Every line below sits in a public archive, a printed book, or a government file.

2009	The inventions go up for sale. By January 2010 his first site, crioner.com, is on the public web; the Internet Archive holds 237 pages of it.
2011	cri-one.com goes online. A thousand pages of it are archived.
2012	First application filed with the U.S. Patent Office, No. 29/423,993. He files it himself.
2014	buyinvent.com opens, a whole store of inventions. A thousand pages archived. Still, nobody buys.
2017	He prints the record on paper: Invent Depositions, ISBN 978‑1‑979767‑89‑7, shipped November 24, 2017.
2018	Second book: Non Provisional Patents, ISBN 978‑1‑987572‑26‑1.
2020	Third book: Buy-Invent 2020, 1,754 invention depositions on 285 pages, ISBN 979‑8‑634479‑82‑8.
2026	The machines arrive. Working with AI, the drawings become blueprints, stores, films. U.S. Copyright Reg. TX 9‑642‑452. Dozens of patent applications pending. More than 3,600 products on this site.

Sources: the Internet Archive (web.archive.org), the U.S. Patent Office, the U.S. Copyright Office, and the ISBN register.

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