For all their public popularity, flamingos turn out to be poorly understood scientifically, and only lately have researchers ventured answers to basic questions like why the birds spend so much time perched on one leg, and contort their heads backward before settling down for the night; how they keep their feathers so "Miami Vice" bright, and select a well-suited mate from the deafening throng.
McCarthy does brilliantly to block a shot from Richardson, and from the ensuing right-wing corner, Hangeland peels away towards the near corner of the box and contorts he head into the hard flick that scoots towards the far post.
When we hear the word "yoga," we usually paint the mental picture of people standing on their heads, bodies contorted in weird ways, exhaustion and fatigue flooding our brains and bodies with the idea of the practice.
Balloon-like heads contort their faces, naked men don giant animal masks, intact heads are smushed or even caved in, and other strange things happen in the work of Barcelona-based sculptor and painter Samuel Salcedo.
I'm guessing he's hooked up to an IV drip somewhere, his legs contorted with cramps, his head cradled by a concerned fitness trainer.
Most are vile, contorted, grinning, decomposed; others, with full heads of hair, stare right at you.
You're capturing a contorted, tightened version; pouting, eyelids lowered, head cocked.
A seething condemnation of the IRA, it was backed by pummelling, distorted guitars while O'Riordan's lilt was contorted into a primal howl: "What's in your head Zombie?
There's one key difference that seems so blindingly obvious it's not often pointed out: after the moody, skunked-out head-swell of dubstep and the macho, contorted screw-face of grime, this music is just so freaking... happy.
