Woodworkers...any turners here?  

Indeed there could be, perhap...
Indeed there could be, perhaps you could get a small bowl turning lathe and flip it on side, but why not turn as normal? The RPM is pretty high, get an electronically variable speed if you can, I think Powermatic would have something.
My father has a MASSIVE lathe (the chuck is the size of a dining table) that is like a potters wheel that he uses to make reproduction rims for vintage cars on.

Thanks Heath! That's an idea...
Thanks Heath! That's an idea worth trying...flipping a lathe on it's side. What got me thinking about this was my own background with ceramics. I've never used a lathe before, and not familiar with the dynamics between the machine, wood and artisan. In ceramics..my view is that the artisan is literally and figuratively drawing themselves into whatever form that's being shaped. Pretty intimate relationship. Lathing seems to possess similar qualities and I'm curious about that.
Starting off small is good advice. The robot lathe you pictured...one hell'va handsome piece of machinery!

I cant really imagine how you...
I cant really imagine how you'd hold the chisel, and hollowing would be tricky and dangerous.
If you wanted to get into it there are heaps of second hand lathes on the market, I think its the first thing the widow sells when the old man goes. A small long bed lathe will let you do both bowl and spindle turning, larger bowls on the outboard side. Go for cast iron and with a point spur in the head and tailstock push them together to check the alignment of point to point.
You'd also want a small bandsaw and bench grinder, learning to sharpen the bloody chisels freehand is harder than simple turning I think.
Someone near me was taking down a Lebanese cedar a few weeks ago and I was running around like mad trying to find it, the smell was incredible, of course just as I got there it had all been chipped into garden mulch.