Advent mood - in and out of the computer

The computer is full of Advent spirit, including art . For example, the website onlinekunst.de offers fascinating Advent art in several forms:

The sounding cyberart Advent calendar features computer art by artist Inga Schnekenburger, a completely new type of poinsettia composed of flowers and plants.

The Angel Advent calendar provides you with what we all need every day and sometimes quite urgently: angels whose "earthly calling" it is to support people as a guardian angel.

The angel on the entrance side is by Fra Angelico, further you can find angels by Titian and by Gentile de Fabriano , by Carlo Crivelli and Benozzo Gozzoli , by Hubert van Eyck and Rembrandt , by Giotto di Bondone and Filippino Lippi, by Domenico Beccafumi and Melchior Broederlam, by Ssemyon Fedorovich Ushakov and Pietro Perugino, by William Blake , Friedrich Herlin and Hugo van der Goes.

Most of them are venerable angels from the 13th to 17th centuries, who certainly offer a great deal of experience in protection, but also a few young, fresh angels for those who will need a little more effort in the coming year.

If you have Flash installed on your computer, the angels will begin to float. If not, you can see them in full on the next page. There you'll find text about the day and the angel.

The entire site, by the way, has been lovingly crafted and offers something new to discover every day—a text or poem about the angel image; sometimes there are one or more enlarged versions of an angel image as a PDF for printing; sometimes the image is available as a free Christmas wallpaper; sometimes there are redirects, such as to heaven on Christmas Eve.

With the 24 angels you can find on onlineunst.de/engel , you are then excellently equipped until Christmas and can test whether the Christmas party with guardian angel support is exceptionally harmonious.

On December 24th, you'll receive a small Christmas gift Kunstplaza : a short text for each angel picture, which you can copy and print out (in your desired decorative font) and then cut out. If you print out each day's angel (perhaps in light grayscale at home, which you can then color in, or perhaps in color, for example, at a copy shop as a quality print) and apply the angel and text to a calendar template, you'll have a guardian angel by your side for the entire year of 2015, and every month you'll get to know one of our most important artists from the past. If you read the texts for the pictures several times each month, you're sure to remember a lot.

A funny game every day , perhaps the sense of words or a sense of numbers, maybe just relaxing, not always a Christmas game is available on Santagames.net .

At www.bustedhalo.com there is the clever advent saying on the day , quotes from very different personalities from this world or not really from this world, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Princess Leia to Winnie-the-Pooh, in English ... A real gag on this calendar is the "Advent Buffering-Come Back When Actually Arrived. Forget, Advent is all about Waiting. " (Advent buffer-come back on the right day-don't forget, Advent is always about waiting.).

The English Shape Design Studio has "It's a Shape Christmas" , which means "It is a Christmas form". Is it too, namely a digital advent calendar with Christmas graphics.

25 illustrators from all over the world have contributed a Christmas graphic in their very personal style, which you can download for iPhone, iPhone5, iPad, iPad Mini (and of course also as a JPG to your computer). Every day there is a unique design on Itsashapechristmas.co.uk , connected to a small donation for the "Street Mission" , but also for free.

An advent calendar for everyone who loves beautiful women in beautiful lingerie, with nice make-up, maybe also beautiful shoes and beautiful clothes, can be seen with a film for every Advent day on theloveMagazine.co.uk/advent.

There is also "the opposite", at www.advent-online.de , all Advent online from the computer. On the common platform of the Evangelical and Catholic Church (when is there a common platform of all religions?)) There are thoughts about Advent for everyone who is looking for the real, contemplative Advent and Christmas mood. You can find a lot of thoughts in the archive since 2005, i.e. a total of 10 years x 24 days = 240 advent thoughts .

Rather weird and shrill than contemplative, one is devoted to christmasgifs.org, one of London artist and designer Ryan Todd and the creative digital studio Enjoythis.

They've collected animated GIFs from illustrators and artists, Christmas GIFs of course. There are some amazing things to discover on this site. The best part is, you can send all of them as Christmas greetings right from the website christmasgifs.org .

If you do not find time to find an advent mood outdoor all Advent season, you can at least bring this advent mood to the screen at least:

Cameraman Sven Schapeler captured the Advent mood in Berlin, from the Christmas lights at the Brandenburg Gate and Unter den Linden to Friedrichstrasse, the Potsdamer Platz and the Kudamm, underlaid with magical music, real "Christmas Magic Berlin".

If at some point you have enough of a contemplative mood or regret to have visited only politically correct alternative Christmas markets this year-if you are missing the really nice colorful, loud, glaring, shrill, commercial Christmas market, there is also you on YouTube.

You can have at least mentally moved to Las Vegas, even if there are only pictures from the Berlin Christmas market on Alexanderplatz .