Category Archives: Photography, Signs

Photography, Family, Girls Love Footwear

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

How I Married Karen

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Robert J. Avrech
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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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