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.
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...
We're sitting at Third and Seneca northbound on the 3, a trolley bus. The passenger in front asks me what my favorite routes are.
"I...
Rainier and Henderson, the bottom of the Valley, deep in the living night. We're in the nerve center for gun crimes and drug distribution–...
Nathan Vass is a photographer/filmmaker who drives for Metro. Learn more at nathanvass.com.
There are times when I can't tell if it's the world opening...
This guy's smiling, let me tell you. I thought I smiled a lot. He walks up at Pine southbound, first stop on the 7,...
"You got one more comin'!"
I look in the right mirror, and it's true, there's a streak of red of blue, running for me at...