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.
You may have seen the ad I'm in about working for Metro. I'm linking it only because I thought you might find it of interest....
I think the thing to do here is just present the conversation entirely, as it happened. I know the shorter posts are more digestible...
It's an overwhelming whirlwind, bus driving. In thirty seconds you'll have someone who loves you, someone who hates you, and somebody who wants to...
"You know what it smelled like, it smelled like those stink bombs kids use. It smelled like that."
I said, "those are terrible!"
Sometimes the conversations...
"How's it going?" I nod to a man clad in brown and black.
"I'm great," he says, even though he has a cell phone to...
A twenty-something couple approaches the front, late at night at Othello Street. They're about to deboard.
"Um," says the girl. "Hey, can we ask you...
Rainier and Othello is not an inviting place. You know the landscape: one and two story buildings, mostly residential, with buckling and otherwise eroded...
Her profile is distinctive. Short, compact, fit, young spirit in an older body, with that angled hair at the front. Yeah, it's gotta be...