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Nathan Vass

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, <i>The Seattle Times</i>, KING


Recent Articles by this Author

The View From Nathan's Bus: The Old-Timers

Nathan Vass will be joining The Urbanist Book Club on Tuesday, April 4 at 6pm. Sign up is available here. And you can pick up his book, The Lines That Make Us, which we will be discussing. I can still see fairly well without my glasses, but I can’t

The View From Nathan's Bus: The Old-Timers

Nathan Vass will be joining The Urbanist Book Club on Tuesday, April 4 at 6pm. Sign up is available here. And you can pick up his book, The Lines That Make Us, which we will be discussing. I can still see fairly well without my glasses, but I can’t

The View From Nathan's Bus: Doin' You

Nathan Vass will be joining The Urbanist Book Club on Tuesday, April 4 at 6pm. Sign up is available here. And you can pick up his book, The Lines That Make Us, which we will be discussing. “Nathaniel!” Marlon called out from midway back on my E Line. “Heyyy,” I

The View From Nathan's Bus: Doin' You

Nathan Vass will be joining The Urbanist Book Club on Tuesday, April 4 at 6pm. Sign up is available here. And you can pick up his book, The Lines That Make Us, which we will be discussing. “Nathaniel!” Marlon called out from midway back on my E Line. “Heyyy,” I

The View From Nathan's Bus: This Happens Too

“Yes, I have perhaps suffered more than you. Yet I do not succumb to despair.” -Chekhov I prefer to ride in the last train car but couldn’t tonight, as it reeked of fentanyl. Little did I know this would be something I would later be thankful for. I scurried

The View From Nathan's Bus: This Happens Too

“Yes, I have perhaps suffered more than you. Yet I do not succumb to despair.” -Chekhov I prefer to ride in the last train car but couldn’t tonight, as it reeked of fentanyl. Little did I know this would be something I would later be thankful for. I scurried