Tina Martinez

Tina Martinez is a Professional Freelance Internet Consultant and currently spends her time in Sacramento, Ca. She specializes in web design and also manages a successful web hosting company.

Tina studied physics in college and began her technical career in information technology (IT) working as a technical contractor in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work took her into many different large corporations. There, she acted in the capacity of a support analyst where she helped people understand how to use their computers, and fixed computers when they weren't acting right. Technically, she has a wide variety of technical skill and experience. While in college she tutored students in math and science and was successful in simplifying challenging ideas so that students could be more successful in their studies.

Tina recognized early on that she enjoyed the freedom of being a contractor but desired a more flexible lifestyle that would allow her to pursue other interests so she turned to the internet. She fell in love with web design because making a web site requires both sides of the brain. She became excited at the prospect of being able to blend her creative with her technical.

Now, she has been making web sites since 1998 and feels that each new web site she creates is better than the one before it. There doesn't appear to be an end to the technology and features that can be integrated into a web site and design and every day she finds a new way to be creative in the process.

Even though Tina usually works alone on a project, from concept to design to technical implementation, she also enjoys partnering with other graphic designers, where the process of bringing their unique design to life in the form of a functional web page and web site is a very rewarding challenge.

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Equations

What do you see when you look at the sky? A physicist might look at the sky and start thinking of the calculations that cause it to be there; wave forms and Fourier transforms, and a dreamer might be overcome with the vastness and have no words to describe it nor even try. What do you see when you look at the sky? I see both the beauty and the science.

Buddha - Who?

This is a mirror. When you look into this mirror your own face appears within the blank area of the face of this meditating Buddha. Thus the illusion is created that you are the Buddha.

One of my hobbies is stained glass. I originally drew this Buddha to be a pattern for a stained glass window. Instead, I etched the pattern onto a piece of mirror with a jewelers drill and diamond drill bits. The mirror is 2' x 3'. Taking a picture of this mirror turned out to be a huge project in itself. How do you get a good picture of a mirror? Finally, after many attempts inside, I decided to take it outside. At the time I was living in a place that had an old barn-like structure in the yard. I realized that if I hung it outside on the barn wall, it would reflect the trees. So I did and it worked!

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