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 were talking about a random sampling of things. "I'm goin' to the hospital tomorrow," she said. "I got an abscess in my cheek....
It was the day after what was unquestionably the worst night in my entire bus-driving career. We're not going to talk about it, for...
In filmmaking the edict is to show, not tell. That's why I won't summarize conversations here on the blog and merely tell you about them while...
My notes are simply a diagram of a triangle with labels at each point for the three people who made it all happen. Race doesn't play...
I couldn't quite make out what variety he specified, but I somehow knew his next word would be cancer. Him and his pet rabbit,...
I didn't know him. But I wanted to talk to him. Most homeless folks are white men between thirty and sixty, and he was just...
Later that same night the trio from this story came back. The shortest of the group was now wearing a mask.
"Hey again!"
"Hey! I got my...
It all started somewhere northbound on Tenth Avenue East, as we drifted past Saint Mark's Cathedral. There's never any traffic here, but there was...