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.
Some actors just radiate intelligence. You feel it in their eyes, their bearing, their enunciation. Think of Max von Sydow or Juliette Binoche. Natalie...
What I like
What you like
Why can't we both be right?
-Brittany Howard, Alabama Shakes
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I'm wandering around outside my bus at the Rainier and Henderson terminal....
Oh my goodness, I thought. It's him, it really is him. How many years ago was that? This I wrote in 2012:
"I'm gonna be a...
Tran's telling me an anecdote from earlier in the day. Have I told you about him? Tran's the scruffy Vietnamese guy who knows all...
"Hey guys," I called out. This was a trio of folks about my age, milling about the Men's Shelter a bit after ten PM. In...
"How's life," he asked. I appreciated the phrasing, which felt more genuine than other versions of the same query. It set a specific tone:...
For the sake of illustration, this is a monologue I wrote years ago. It was included as part of a piece in my 2013 solo...
I stood by the farebox, toggling the switches as the wheelchair ramp slowly came to life. It took an extra second. To the folks...