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Tales from riverbank filmed for time capsule

Thousands of panoramic pictures of London's South Bank are to be collected over the next three days as part of an "electronic time capsule" project.

A 10ft cylinder, based on a Victorian cyclorama, has been set up beside the Thames. It is fitted with 11 high-resolution cameras and from tomorrow each of them will take a picture every five seconds, creating a 360-degree digital image.

The images will be displayed on giant screens inside a temporary building at Gabriel's Wharf, which will be lit up at night.

Jason Bruges, the artist behind the O2 Memory Project, said he believed it would help Londoners and tourists explore the idea of memory.

"The project is all about public spaces and how people interact with them," he said.

O2 plans to put the images online for visitors to see. After its three-day South Bank residency, the Memory Project will move to Edinburgh and Liverpool.

Images from all the events will be put online and organisers believe it will help illustrate the differences between the three cities.

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