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.
This was before the pandemic, when getting on through the back was frowned upon. These two teens tumbled aboard through the middle doors anyway,...
"We don't want RapidRide," Marcus told me one night. I'd been telling him stops would be eliminated, and how the 49 would be separated...
No, the conversation didn’t have the urgency or desperation of our first, nor the celebratory airs of the second. But I like to think...
What will we call each other sixty years from now? Sixty years ago we thought we knew. We didn't. Some of it won't be...
This post is a thematic sister to this post.
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I will look back on these days with wonder. I will remember the texture of the...
I'll leave it to those around me to conclude whether or not I'm the same person I was eight years ago, when I started...
As in several of the posts in this series (see below), I’m sprawled out on a bus home after a long day working. I’m...
We were in that special place following the conclusion of a night shift--and by place I mean both physical and psychological. Physical, because walking...