Black Art Breakthroughs

1998
Written by Dondrake
Work of Dondrake
45 pages (Spiralbound), published by unknown publisher
Illustrated with drawings by Gary Darwin
Language: English
33 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page Categories
Dondrake Dedication Dedication to Gary Darwin / Acknowledgements
 		2
Gary Darwin Foreword
3
Dondrake Preface
4
Dondrake The Early Years History of black art
 		5
Dondrake BlackArt in the Parlor More history on black art
 		6
Dondrake Build a Wizard's Window Black art background
 		7
Dondrake Handling BlackArt Cards
  • Vanishing Card
  • Vanishing Jumbo Card
  • Diminishing Card
 		9
Dondrake Building a BlackArt Backdrop Black art curtains
 		12
Dondrake Using the Right Material
14
Dondrake BlackArt Lighting How to do lighting on stage for black art illusions
 		15
Dondrake The Wizard's Curtain Three different ways to set up a stage for black art illusions
 		16
Dondrake The BlackArt Table
19
Dondrake BlackArt Well Table
20
Dondrake Wizard's Table
21
Dondrake The Flying Carpet Magicians levitates while sitting on flying carpet
 		24
Dondrake The Hindu Rope Trick Rope levitates out of basket, boy climbs up, disappears in smoke, rope falls down
 		25
Dondrake Fantasy Dove Cardboard dove visually changes into real dove in full view
 		26
Dondrake Floating Into and Out of the Body Girl levitates, gets absorbed into magician's body, then comes out of his body before floating down
 		27
Dondrake Stretching Rope Rope stretches in length
 		28
Dondrake BlackArt Prediction Use black art to load prediction
 		29
Dondrake Jumbo Card Frame Three card monte with jumbo cards in a frame, using black art
 		30
Dondrake BlackArt Milk Routine Milk poured into newspaper cone, liquid vanishes
 		31
Dondrake Paper Bag Productions Produce bulky items from empty paper bag
 		32
Dondrake Darwin's BlackArt Striptease Lady's clothes slowly float away from her body one by one into a basket, then clothes in basket vanish
 		33
Gary Darwin Darwin's Missing Fingers Magician visually pulls off fingers off of gloved hand and places fingers into top hat. Glove removed, fingers pop back onto hand
 		34
Gary Darwin Darwin's Ever Loaded Hat Method to secretly load top hat
 		36
Gary Darwin Darwin's BlackArt Lota Lota vase keeps refilling indefinitely, longer than it should
 		37
Gary Darwin Darwin's Steel Rod Through Body Push steel rod through body
 		38
Gary Darwin Darwin's Exorcist Live! Woman brought on stage begins to get possessed by a demon, head floats around, body levitates etc.
 		39
Chad Sanborn The Cloned Lady Hand pulled off a lady, and then put back
 		42
The Future of Magic, Ken and James The Broken and Restored Heart Girl vanishes behind newspaper, newspaper torn and restored, girl appears again
 		43
Dondrake Afterword
44
Dondrake Acknowledgements
45
Data entered by Harapan Ong, April 2017.