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Unagi Travel has been organizing stuffed animal tours throughout Japan, Europe and the United States. 

The travel agency gives tours not to you but to your favorite plush toy. For fans of the movie “Amelie,” in which a garden gnome disappears from a front yard and mysteriously appears in photos taken at tourist sites around the globe, this is kind of like that: Give your teddy a grand adventure while you sit at home. 

Teen Wolf Screentime Project, Part 1: Overview and Lead Characters’ Screentime

I originally started this project to answer a minor curiosity I had about season 4 regarding whether my perception and reality coincided. Ultimately, I found that they did, albeit differently than I expected. However, I found this project overall to be immensely satisfying and very interesting regarding the evolution and use of characters on Teen Wolf, and I have decided to share my results. Hopefully others will find this information useful and/or interesting as well.

Methodology: I used a methodology I have seen used elsewhere on tumblr (unfortunately I do not have a link handy). Using VLC, I skipped through each episode in 10 second increments and marked down which characters were on the screen in each stopped frame. As such, the raw data used is merely as estimate of the characters’ total screentime, though hopefully it is a fairly accurate and fairly objective measure. Screentime, obviously, does not account for the amount of narrative focus or the quality of that focus for these characters. However, it still should serve well as an overall rough picture. Also, as part of this methodology, a character’s screentime is presented as a percentage of a whole (for example, in season 4, Kira was on the screen 9.35% of the time). I felt this was the most meaningful way of presenting the data.

If you’re a big time fan of the show (and enjoy pie charts and bar graphs) this is a must read!