Worth1000

Aviary, Inc.

Type	Company
Industry	Web Based
Founded	2002
Founder(s)	Avi Muchnick
Headquarters	New York City, New York, United States
Key people	Avi Muchnick, Israel Derdik
Products	Plime Aviary
Website	www.worth1000.com

Worth1000 is an image manipulation and contest website. Worth1000 opened on January 1, 2002 and hosts over 340,000 unique images made in theme contests such as "Rejected Transformers", "Invisible World", and "Stupid Protests". In mid-2003, Worth1000 began hosting similar competitions for photography, text, and multimedia.

The website was designed by Avi Muchnick and Israel Derdik. Muchnick named it after the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words".

The site has been featured in many different publications, TV shows, and radio including PC Magazine, Popular Science, Good Morning America, BBC, CNN, New York Times, Weekly World News, Detroit Free Press, TechTV, USA Today, G4, Inside Edition and many others.^[1]

Worth1000 and its members have created three books on image manipulation: When Pancakes Go Bad,^[2] I've Got a Human in my Throat,^[3] and More than one way to skin a cat ^[4]

Contents 1 Contests 2 Forums 3 Terms and Worthisms 4 Intramural competitors 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Contests

Competition mostly takes place in a series of themed contests. A subject title is given along with a sample photo manipulation from a previous or similar contest and a brief description of what contestants should try to do. Entries are then accepted for a fixed period of time, after which they are posted so that people can vote on them, and the results are then compiled. Examples of contests are:

• Reality manga - Alter photos of real people (celebrities are popular) so that they look like Japanese anime drawings come to life.
• Chimaera – Create a new animal by mating three or four other animals to one.
• Invisible world - Take any object or person in an image and make it invisible using photoshop. No indication or outline of the object/animal/person should be seen, except through its function/interaction with other objects and/or people in the image.
• If Goths ruled – Show what the world would look like if Goths ruled it.

Others include mating animals with instruments or plants, zombifying or aging celebrities, combining several movies to one, and many others.

Even if the Photoshop contests are the main attraction of Worth1000, it also has a vast variety of contests for photography, text and a multimedia section, mostly consisting of illustration competitions. Along with the regular contests, members of Worth1000 challenge each other in head-to-head competitions too.

Forums

The Worth1000 website has a large community as well as a large selection of forums. The forums range from general discussions and humour to discussions on techniques for the various types of contests. Due to the many active Admins and a word-filter that monitors the forums, a high level of troll control exists.

Terms and Worthisms

• Banhammer - What will strike you if you break the rules, resulting in a ban.
• Losasig - The signature awarded by the winner of a Head-to-Head match to the loser of the match (written humiliation).
• Losatar - The avatar awarded by the winner of a Head-to-Head match to the loser of the match (animated humiliation).
• Worthism - Slang terms / made-up Worth1000 terminology that appear on the site.
• Filter - A feature of the site that changes certain keywords to other words.
• New Jersey - The filtered form of the word "Hell." The most infamous and prevalent of the conversions by the filter.
• Textor - One who participates in the Text Contests.
• Trifecta - When the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winning entries in one contest were all submitted by the same person.
• Worthiversary or Worthday - The celebration of one's x year membership on worth, where x is the number of years.
• Karma - A user's earned voting power or value.
• Jurors - Staff of volunteer site users who have a voting karma of 500, almost 3 times that of the maximum karma a normal user can acquire.
• Fantasy Series - a monthly fantasy image competition.

Intramural competitors

Similar sites have competed in an intramural tournament with Worth1000.com, including:

• Something Awful's Photoshop Phriday
• Fark.com

See also

• Fark.com
• Photoshop contest

References

1. ^ [1]Worth1000 media mentions
2. ^ ISBN 1592005241 Hardcover, 280 pages, Publisher Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (October 7, 2004)
3. ^ ISBN 1598630709 Paperback, 304 pages, Publisher Course Technology PTR; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
4. ^ http://www.amazon.com/More-Than-One-Way-Skin/dp/1598634720

External links

• Official website