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.
Into the mic I said, "Let's get outta here!"
"We got a wild a driver tonight!" the husband of the mid-aged couple sitting up front...
I first saw him at 14th and Jackson, chatting with some NightWatch pals. It was 6:45, long before the 9pm entry time for that...
I wrote the following in 2012:
At Letitia a gregarious basketball-player-looking character steps off. He always seems to know everybody. He'll get on the bus, plunk...
Image above: On the left, my friend Purpelle Tramble, the filmmaker. On the right, some guy with short hair...
Two unrelated interactions with different late-night...
Twenty-seven minutes into Sunday, but that's just for those counting at home. Broadway and East Pine is the center of the world for some,...
There's so much police, fire, and medical sprawled out everywhere you'd think it was the parking lot at Bellevue Psychiatric. This place looks like Willowbrook...
"Alright, Cloverdale is next," I told them, "by the Mini-Mart. And South Lake High School. Also, this bus continues up the hill, to Prentice....
"Hey, Bashi."
He tells me I'm his favorite, the best. He asks if I remember him.
"Of course I remember you!" I was just about to...