About this site

This is the personal/portfolio site for Brad J. Lucido.

I am a bilingual English/Japanese web and multimedia developer/designer and I live in Dallas Texas. Thanks for visiting my Web Site.

I have been involved with website/multimedia design, development, and testing for over 10 years. Please visit the portfolio page to see samples of what I have worked on.

This is a brand new site that is designed to reflect my professional and creative side. Although I have an older site that dates from my Graduate school days in the mid 90s, I chose to create a new site using a domain that I own myself!

This site doesn't have many pages yet, but I am planning to add more photos, create a Japanese version, and add some new creative content reflecting some of my hobby projects.

About the construction of this site.

This site is developed on an Apple Macintosh using BBEdit, Apache, and PHP. I prefer the total control that I can achieve by using hand coding, instead of a designer's tool like Adobe Dreamweaver. Besides that, this is how I learned to make websites way back when I stared, and I decided to stick with it. I am also a programmer, so hand coding suits me well all the way around.

About the name "TransparentForest"

I registered this domain name on a whim 8 years ago. I just thought up the name out of the blue while I was doing some creative brainstorming with a friend after a session of zen meditation. At the time, I thought the name sounded so cool, that I rushed ahead and registered the domain before somebody else did.

8 years later, I finally got around to making this site. Actually, I really needed to make an online portfolio at this time in my life, so that gave me the motivation to make the effort to get this site up and running.

Strangely enough, it never occurred to me to do a web search on the name "TransparentForest" until I started working on this site. When I finally did the web search, I was surprised to find out that "Transparent Forest" is the name of a painting done by the Russian painter Mikhail Larionov. It is also the name of a color, and also used in the title of a rare book of poems. It seems that all of the usages of "TransparentForest" have something to do with art and creativity, and that fits the intend spirit of the site.