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 feel like I see so many fragments of universes, the visible tips of deep and storied lives, icebergs whose temperatures and histories we...
On the incredible 3/4
A young man on the other side of Jefferson makes a noise. It's Jermain (from here and here, among other stories). He yells a...
I think her name was Katherine, on her way to a haircut. She was up front, just boarded, watching bright-eyed as I greeted the...
"How you doin'?" I ask her at Campus Parkway inbound. It's nearing midday, sunny, on a half-full 70.
"Swell," she says happily, sounding surprised to...
You know how the 44 generally is around midday. Scattered students, errand runners, the occasional Ballard drunk and myself drifting back and forth on...
On the 7:
He looks gruff, plugged in to his headphones, light mustache and beard cut to angle downwards, as if to set his features...
"Well, you win the award for Mr. Conviviality," an elderly woman said to me as she deboarded on the tail end of the 10....
I realize in rereading this piece that it can be seen to function as a political endorsement. It was not intended as such, though...