Nathan Vass
Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night, where his community-building work has been showcased on TED, NPR, The Seattle Times, KING 5 and landed him a spot on Seattle Magazine’s 2018 list of the 35 Most Influential People in Seattle. He has shown in over forty photography shows is also the director of nine films, six of which have shown at festivals, and one of which premiered at Henry Art Gallery. His book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller and 2019 WA State Book Awards finalist.
"We wanna go forward, not backward! Works better that way," I muttered to myself and anyone listening. I prefer when the bus rolls forward. We...
"How's it goin'," he said, the twenty-first century version of "hello." Words may change, but intentions hold steady. I was leaving the comfort station...
Everything about the day was fine, except for this headache. I think you know the type. Imagine a subtle, unending brain freeze, surging every...
Into the mic I said, "Let's get outta here!"
"We got a wild a driver tonight!" the husband of the mid-aged couple sitting up front...
I first saw him at 14th and Jackson, chatting with some NightWatch pals. It was 6:45, long before the 9pm entry time for that...
I wrote the following in 2012:
At Letitia a gregarious basketball-player-looking character steps off. He always seems to know everybody. He'll get on the bus, plunk...
Image above: On the left, my friend Purpelle Tramble, the filmmaker. On the right, some guy with short hair...
Two unrelated interactions with different late-night...
Twenty-seven minutes into Sunday, but that's just for those counting at home. Broadway and East Pine is the center of the world for some,...