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About InDyn

Rod Martin, c.1975 (1928 – 1992)

Infinity Dynamics Foundation was the idea of Rod Martin, Sr, but this lofty dream took awhile to form.

In the late 1940's, Mr. Martin did a tour in the Navy in Seattle, Washington. In the 1950's, he worked as a surveyor for Humble Oil Company (later to be known as Exxon), and worked as the manager of a chemical troubleshooting laboratory at the El Paso Natural Gas plant in Odessa, Texas. In the 1960's, he switched to teaching general science and biology at Permian High School, Odessa, then moved with his wife and four boys to Maryland where he found a job at Documentation Incorporated. He was soon managing over a hundred employees at the NASA contract facility for Doc. Inc. in Bethesda and later College Park. In the late 60's, he moved to Los Angeles to take up a calling in spiritual counseling in which he spent the rest of his life.

As a counselor, he helped dozens of individuals realize greater spiritual awareness. Toward the end of his life he understood the need for an interdisciplinary team of problem solvers from a broad spectrum of vocations — scientists, clerics, artists, philosophers and others. With the right team, equipped with the right tools, problems could be tackled in ways never before imagined.

Sadly, Rod Martin died before the dream of InDyn could be realized, but his son, Carl (Rod Martin, Jr.) continues to build on that dream.

Carl Martin, 2009 Cebu, Philippines

Carl Martin is the first son of Rod Martin and keenly aware of the need to solve some of the world's problems with the unique approach offered by the InDyn Foundation. Education is one such area that has yet to reach its fullest potential. In first grade, he encountered education at its worst with a teacher who punished creativity. Halfway through the first year of school, the family moved to Oregon where Humble Oil Company wanted to have potential oil fields surveyed. The new teacher recognized young Mr. Martin as especially gifted in mathematics, though he was in danger of failing to learn reading. That teacher took it upon herself to tutor Mr. Martin, one-on-one, after school to get his education back on track. She was Mr. Martin's first heroine.

Always passionate about learning, Mr. Martin continued his education, first with electronic engineering and then in graphics.

Carl Martin with the tarsiers of Bohol, Philippines

Mr. Martin was also a gifted artist and had a successful career in graphics and fine arts. His space and astronomy-related art ("spacescapes") were a permanent fixture at the world-renowned Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Several one-person shows of Mr. Martin's art were held, including at Alegra Design at the Bonaventure, downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Martin also created several matte paintings for the short science fiction film, "Quest," a Saul Bass production of a Ray Bradbury short story (Saul Bass was a two-time Academy Award® winning designer, and Ray Bradbury is a famous science fiction writer with several of his stories made into movies).

In the mid-1980's, Carl Martin published his first novel, Touch the Stars: Emergence, co-authored with John Dalmas. An autographed copy found its way to Mr. Martin's Oregon first grade teacher with a heart-felt "thank-you."

Carl Martin scouting potential locations for the Infinity Dynamics Foundation Loboc River, Bohol Island, Philippines

In the early 1990's, Carl Martin switched careers to that of software engineering. In technical school, he graduated at the top of his class with honors. He continued his education at Los Angeles Valley College. While there, he won two awards for his writing — first place for his essay, "Outsiderness in the Scientific Community" (a cornerstone of the philosophy on which the InDyn Foundation is built), and first place for his short story, "Toady" (Krupnick Award and Dutton Book Award, respectively).

In 2004 Mr. Martin finished his Bachelors degree in Computer Information Technology, summa cum laude. In 2007, he moved to Cebu to marry the love of his life, Juvy.

The Infinity Dynamics Foundation is headquartered in the Philippines.

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