The John Lennon Education Tour Bus

From the Blog

• POW POW: PREs and Sunshine and Literature I sit enthralled in the front studio of the bus, I sit enthralled reading Eugenides’ new book “The Marriage Plot.” I sit so enthralled that I do not realize that we were sitting at the University of Southern California campus until I look up and noticed the markings of the …
• Near Year’s Honours When the New Year begins and the bus staff returns to the bus, it is a kind of a celebration. The bus exists as our home, the bus exists as our place of work and the people at the bus exist as our friends, so the return in the parking …
• Getting Technically Creative with iPad Wireless Control Hello all!  It’s been tooooo long since our last chat!  Warning: excessive use of exclamation points may be used throughout this piece as we have just turned the bus into the wind and are heading west.  Final Destination: California aka HOME!!  The Lennon Bus has officially ended its 2011 tour …
• What Wonders We Witnessed When We Went To South Beach: 2011 How was your weekend? Was it well? Over the weekend, we at the Lennon Bus had quite a bit going on. We really did! Our tour season is winding down with only a few more days to go before we begin the trek back to California and what could be …
• Beam Me Up - Video Light Painting in Motion A really cool looking visual effect is light painting.     In photography, the effect is achieved by using a slow shutter speed, but recently, I wanted to obtain the same effect in video. Turns out it’s a bit more complex than changing your camera’s shutter speed, but if you …

The Headlines

• Stanford University “Game Day”

  The Bus will lead its 2nd "Game Day" with Learning Games Network at Stanford University from Feb 11-13, bringing high school students together to develop an iOS app with Stanford undergrads and the JLETB engineers. The Bus will be open to the Stanford community from noon-4pm on Feb 13.

• Live with Bootsy at NAMM

  Friday night at NAMM the Lennon Bus hosted an event to commemorate the launch of the 2012 tour, capped off with a funktastic performance by Bootsy Collins and Verdine White. The Bus produced a live webstream of the event using our new TriCaster 850 Extreme and TodoCast satellite connection; if you missed it live you can still catch it on the DVR here: lennonbus.org/live. Stay tuned for future live events, happening regularly!

• JLETB’s 15th Year Anniversary

  The JLETB kicked-off its 15th year of bringing music education to students nationwide, with a special birthday party at the 2012 NAMM Show. The Bus unveiled a new arsenal of equipment for the 2012 year, including Avid® Pro Tools®|HDX, and live streaming capabilities made possible by NewTek and TodoCast that will allow the whole party to be seen live via www.lennonbus.org. Learn more here.

• Best Buy

  The Bus wrapped up the 2011 tour with a stop at Best Buy in Plantation, FL. Thanks to everyone who came out for tours of the Bus and to experience our state-of-the-art Avid audio and video solutions. See you next year!

• Sleepless Night at The Betsy Hotel

  The Lennon Bus and The Betsy Hotel helped dedicate a real live Yoko Ono Wish Tree in Miami Beach, FL.