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 is a big one, but bear with me: the fight described below conveniently happened to touch on so many of our city's most...
You have a name for the voice inside of you.
Why do we live at a speed that prevents us from hearing it? Why does...
I love that they have an actual day for this. There's something endearingly old-school about it, and yet who can argue the value of...
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...
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I will look back on these days with wonder. I will remember the texture of the...