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MIXED AND COMPACTEDCPI %u2013 Concrete Plant International | India Edition %u2013 5 | 2025 www.cpi-worldwide.comOn the last page of the magazine, we offer you a mixture of interesting and curious aspects from the concrete world, together with a compact description of what it is about and how it came to be. If you have an idea for this page (including a photograph and short text), please email us your suggestion together with your name and company details. Successful entries will be rewarded with a Concrete Pen. Email your proposal to: editor@cpi-worldwide.com94Reverse Graffiti Godzilla on a Japanese damGodzilla devastates entire cities and yet not only the Japanese love the famous monster of film history. In the Japanese prefecture of Saga, a monstrous and temporary monument was recently erected to him - and it was done at full speed: a so-called reverse graffiti on a concrete dam wall.The occasion for the oversized drawing was the %u201cGodzilla in Saga Dam Art Project - Powered by K%u00e4rcher%u201d. Two anniversaries were celebrated: The Iwayagawachi Dam in Saga, which served as the %u201ccanvas%u201d, celebrated its 50th anniversary and the film character Godzilla its 70th birthday. The project is part of the %u201cSaga Prize!%u201d, a project by Saga Prefecture to create a pair consisting of Godzilla and the shape of the prefecture, which has a similar shape to the character. Why all this right here? It%u2019s because of the origin of the Godzilla saga. With the stories of the giant lizard created by a radiation accident, inventor Tomoyuki Tanaka dealt with the trauma of the atomic bombs dropped by the US army on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War. Godzilla has been trampling across the silver screen since 1954. In Japan, it is the hero of 33 films to date, and Hollywood has brought it to the big screen four times.A gigantic graffiti: The targeted removal of dirt with K%u00e4rcher high-pressure cleaners created a drawing on the concrete surface of the dam from the contrast between the cleaned and uncleaned surface, showing Godzilla in a big city scene. To apply the drawing, K%u00e4rcher assembled a team of specialists from Germany and flew them to Japan. Among them were four industrial climbers who abseiled down from the top of the dam and applied 2,400 marker dots of ecological paint to the polluted surface. They were supported by surveyors who used laser technology to mark the corresponding points on the wall from the ground. Before the figure could be brought to life, the contours had to be pre-drawn. In the second step, the climbers used high-pressure cleaners to work out the motif from the dirt, consisting of moss, lichen and algae growth, using the %u201cpaint by numbers%u201d principle. nPhotos: TM & %u00a9 TOHO CO., LTD., provided by K%u00e4rcher