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.
I see her brighten the bus stop as I pull up. Third and Union southbound, some time before midnight. Hers is a smile which...
We won't tell anyone I took it for a test drive.
As I pulled my 358 into the layover at Second and Main, I noticed...
"Next one is Aurora," I announce from the 44 route. "Aurora Avenue, where you can get the E Line. That's the old 358."
People get...
A woman in her twenties with a terrific, full-bodied Afro boards, all smiles and legs. It's nighttime on Capitol Hill during Pride week. The...
Josh is in his late teens, African-American and something else, tall but not too tall. In our youth we sometimes oscillate between dialects, particularly...
Not all of the conversations I have on the bus are the gleeful bastardizations of syntax which I often record– and which are no...
This guy stumbles on like a rock tumbling through an unstoppable river. An imposing physical presence. We're somewhere at the bottom of Rainier Valley....
Let's see, where were we. Continuing our exploration of what trolley buses are, from the previous post~
All other trolley systems in the US have...