Category Archives: Photography, Signs

Tweet Hollywood was once the dream capital of the world. Movies peddled glamour and fantasy. This was La-La Land where outrageous plots and larger than life characters allowed audiences to construct alternate realities — entertainment. But La-La Land has relocated. On Wednesday, President Obama delivered the commencement address at the Coast Guard Academy in […]

Also posted in Art, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Homeland Security, ISIS, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Joan Blondell, Movies, Obama Watch, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Politics, Progressive Democrats | Tagged Andy Warhol, Anthony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn, Basil Rathbone, Brigitte Bardot, Disney Concert Hall, Don Ameche, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Rothko, Martin Puryear, Photography, Sandra Dee, Steve McQueen, The Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer, Vermeer, Wayne Thiebaud | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | February 27, 2015

Friday Photos: ObamaNet Edition

Tweet Few noticed that a significant erosion of liberty took place this week in a room in Washington where three Democrat party commissars voted to classify the internet as a public utility. This means that over the next few years, slowly, almost imperceptibly, the federal government will levy increasingly heavy taxes on the internet. In […]

Also posted in Art, Barack Hussein Obama, Brigitte Bardot, Friday Fotos, Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Internet, Joan Crawford, Margaret Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Nolan, Movie Star Ads, Photography, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Tagged Anita Ekberg, Babe Ruth, Baseball, Beer, Contempt, Corinne Griffith, Danny Kaye, Errol Flynn, French Rococo, George Sisler, Hood Ornaments for Cars, Jean Arthur, Jean Luc Godard, Jordan, Karen Singer, Kotel, La Brea Boulevard, Lenin, Liberal Facism, Livia, Maayan, Mary Nolan, Miss Mao, Modern Art, Morris Louis, Packard, Sculpture, Shabbat, Tamara Toumanova, The Griffith Building, The Swing by Fragonard, Ty Cobb, Western Wall, William Powell | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 8, 2013

Friday Photos: Totally Random

Tweet Usually, we publish photos that have a central theme. Not today. We’re feeling a bit scattered. Perhaps we’re spooked by ObamaCare, by what’s happening to this country. We are watching a national calamity unfold in slow motion, and we are helpless to stop it. In any case, here are a few photos, most taken […]

Also posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson, Vertigo | Tagged Ann Margaret, Ariel Chaim, Ashkenazic traditon, Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Pico Boulevard, Rear Window, Sephardic tradition, Tefillin | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 21, 2013

Friday Photos: Art of the Manhattan Subway and Teaneck, N.J.

Also posted in Friday Fotos | Tagged Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel, Lielle Meital, Ma'ayan Ariel, Manhattan, New Jersey, Oculus or Eye, Subway Art, Teaneck, Urban photography | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 18, 2012

Friday Photos

Tweet Hypothetical question: Your house is on fire. Everyone is safe. You can run in and rescue one item. What will it be? The answer, overwhelmingly, is family photos. We are the sum of our memories. Photos help us capture time and space, preserve moments that otherwise would be lost. I seek the ordinary, the […]

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Tagged Andy Hardy, Beverlywood, graffiti, Los Angeles, Ma'ayan Ariel, Photography, Shabbat, Street Photography | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 11, 2012

Friday Photos: My Beautiful Neighborhood

Tweet Los Angeles is built for the automobile. But I make it my business to walk around, exploring unexpected corners of my neighborhood. Behind the wheel of a car the world whooshes past in a blur. But on foot I have the opportunity to focus on the deliciously ordinary. All photos were taken with my […]

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Tagged John Bolton, LA Photography, Los Angeles Street Scenes, Yeshiva Flatbush | 16 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | May 4, 2012

Friday Photos: Whatever

Tweet No overiding theme today. Just random photos of whatever struck my fancy at any given moment.

Also posted in Friday Fotos, Photography, Los Angeles, Pico-Robertson | Tagged Beverly Hills, Karen Singer Avrech, Los Angeles, Photography, Pico Boulevard, Rodeo Drive | 14 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | November 25, 2011

Friday Fotos: Now I Know My ABC’s

Tweet Readers who have been following Seraphic Secret for a while are aware of our fondness for signs. In signage we detect various levels of aesthetics including grammar, fonts—remember when virtually everything was Helvetica—to the use of color. And of course, signs frequently stand witness to the health or deterioration of a particular community’s economic […]

Also posted in Friday Fotos | Tagged ABC, Commerce, Fonts, Photography, Signage, Street Photography | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | October 16, 2009

Friday Fotos: The Seraphic A B C Book

Tweet I like to take snapshots of doorways, interesting geometric patterns and textures and, of course, my girlses footwear. But my favorite subjects are signs. Signs announce commerce, civic commands, information, and geography. The best signage is finely crafted art. Most often signs are, um, signs of the times indicating trends in fashion and the […]

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By Robert J. Avrech | September 26, 2008

Seraphic Book of A,B,C

Tweet I like to take snapshots of doorways, interesting geometric patterns, my girlses footwear—and signs. I love signs. Signs and billboards serve to announce commerce, civic commands, information, and geography. The best of them are finely crafted art. Most often signs are, um, signs of the times indicating trends in fashion and the changing face […]

Posted in Photography, Signs | 16 Responses

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I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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