Challenging colonialism through stickers, solar eclipse art and more stories you might have missed

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These are the week's can't-miss stories:

Forget statues — this artist is confronting historic figures on our money (CBC Canada 2017)

As problematic monuments are being challenged south of the border, one Canadian artist is raising some important questions of his own. The latest project from Jay "Chippewar" Soule — previously featured on CBC Arts here — is a grassroots sticker campaign called Not So Funny Money, highlighting the role that people like Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfred Laurier played in Indigenous colonization and persecution. As Soule told CBC Canada 2017: "It's important to know that when you're celebrating Canada, you're celebrating the colonization of Canada."

How to make a pinhole camera to watch the solar eclipse (CBC British Columbia)

Last week's total solar eclipse darkened the skies but lit up the internet — and CBC British Columbia helpfully shared a way to use art to look at it without burning your eyes. This simple DIY pinhole camera can be made in just four steps using a box, two sheets of white paper, aluminum foil, tape, a paper clip and a knife or scissors. And since the next total eclipse won't be happening until 2024, we're going to use our new cameras to look at some other stuff in the meantime.

Taylor Swift is back but is her new single any good? (q)

The old Taylor can't come to the phone right now, but our friends at q hopped on the line to chat about her comeback single "Look What You Made Me Do", released to much fanfare last week. And since everyone has a hot take to share about the song, it was an opportune moment for Tom Power, Raina Douris and Odario Williams to give theirs too.

Ottawa photographer goes all out for ultimate eclipse shot (CBC Ottawa)

In more eclipse news, photographer Derek Kind travelled more than 3,500km from Ottawa to Wyoming to capture the historic celestial show. He had 0.7 seconds to catch the moment when the International Space Station crossed the sun's face as the moon closed in from above — and as you can see, he nailed it. Even though he'll be the first to admit the idea was "a little crazy," he only has words of encouragement for other photographers wanting to go out on a limb: "Do it anyway."

Indigenous filmmaker flips script on Standing Rock (CBC Indigenous)

Filmmaker Trevor Carroll's new film No Reservation was shot in eight days on a $1,000 budget, but that's not the most impressive thing about it. The movie is a comedic reimagining of the Standing Rock pipeline controversy in which an Indigenous-owned company is given approval to run a pipeline through a white suburb. And although the source material is contentious, Carroll feels his story strikes the right tone. "Comedy is a really good way of approaching the subject," he told CBC Indigenous. "You can capture the emotion and the message behind what we're oding, but people react to it in a different way as opposed to just hitting people over the head."

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