An Ocean Trench that SeaQuest DSV Would Visit

Annalee Newitz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:20:00 PDT

This concept art by Koshime, who also created the robo-bear with a giant canon (camera), reminds me of what I miss most about the show SeaQuest DSV. That show, with its super-excellent mega-sub captained by Roy Scheider (and science-geeked by a scrumptious Ted Raimi), captured the alienness of the deep ocean, a place as inhospitable to human life as outer space vacuum. In these strange arches and chambers, Koshime offers a glimpse of an alien undersea world, perhaps natural or perhaps created by intelligent life of the deep sea. [Gorilla Art Fare]

Robo-Bear Armed with a Canon Awaits His Perfect Shot

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:57:44 PDT

An armored polar bear, living in a future where bears have been uplifted into an intelligent but militarized species, controls a massive canon with a big old lens. But even though he's waiting to make his perfect shot, he manages to fall asleep while bunnies hop around his massive, armored paw and on his giant canon.

Painted by concept artist Koshime and posted on the eye-blisteringly awesome Gorilla Art Fare blog, this is like some kind of dark cyber version of an armored bear from the His Dark Materials trilogy. Koshime (AKA Dr CM Wong) is a concept artist based in the UK, who also works as a doctor. He's interested in space medicine specifically, though we're hoping he's also working on creating giant robo-bears.

You can see more of Koshime's art here.

Easter — Shot in the Wild [Gorilla Art Fare]

io9: koshime

An Ocean Trench that SeaQuest DSV Would Visit

Robo-Bear Armed with a Canon Awaits His Perfect Shot