Nobody Gets Harmed In This ‘Milk Crate Challenge’—It’s All A 3D Illusion
Images by Naomi Haverland and featured with permission
The ‘Milk Crate Challenge’, one of the riskiest stunts on TikTok of late, involves the stacking of milk crates to create makeshift stairs and then going up and down them without falling. Unsurprisingly, it’s seen its fair share of injuries, many of which have been documented online for all to see.
Florida-based artist Naomi Haverland, however, might have just created the “safest Milk Crate Challenge.”
She’s set up some “stairs” at a neighborhood in Maple Grove, Minnesota, challenging passersby to walk on them without toppling over. Thankfully, the installation is relatively accident-proof, as it’s a chalk illustration that’s flat on the ground.
Images by Naomi Haverland and featured with permission
There are some parallels between this perspective play and the real Milk Crate Challenge. Like the original, it involved participation from the internet. Haverland details that her friend, Erik Greenawalt (known online as The Chalking Dad), brought up the idea of creating a chalk illusion version of the Milk Crate Challenge. She liked the idea but didn’t have any milk crates to produce a reference photo.
Haverland, who specializes in creating hyperrealistic portraits mostly from chalk, thus turned to the r/3Drequests community and asked if anyone could create a 3D model of milk crates for her. “I wasn’t too hopeful about that since I needed it done without about one day,” remarks the artist. Luckily, the internet responded; the resulting chalk art is a replication of a 3D model generated by u/conDonovan, which you can view here.
The crates were installed to put a smile on people’s faces at the two-day Chalkfest at Arbor Lakes. Bonus: everyone had a great shot to show their friends on social media, and nobody was injured.
For more mind-tripping chalk artworks like this one, be sure to check out Naomi Haverland’s website and Instagram.
The safest milk crate challenge
Images by Naomi Haverland and featured with permission
[via r/WoahDude, images by Naomi Haverland and featured with permission]
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