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 went to the Valley. We went back through town. We came up here. How hard can this last leg be? Well, as it...
Where were we. That’s right. We’d just come all the way up from Rainier, and are now in the middle of the right turn...
Okay, let’s get out of here. You got down here okay. Now let’s go back up. (this is the second in a series of...
This one's about the physical act of driving the thing. It's time for tech talk!Two recent posts dealt with psychological and existential problems of doing this route.Another post...
He was smiling so hard I had to laugh.
It was infectious. I’m guessing he was older than he looked; the sort who says it's...
My favorite part of the 5 is the slight right onto northbound Fremont Avenue. You’ve just come all the way from West Seattle, through...
“Here is really shitty,” she said.
It was an appraisal of frankness I wouldn’t have expected given her appearance—older than my parents’ generation, possibly much...
I used to see these two often. Neighborhood stalwarts both, who each single-handedly elevated the community. Solomon, from Ethiopia, a fifty-something jolly fellow who...