Happenstance has a way of rearing its head in life and this weekend we’d lucked out with the International Surfing Day, right along with our festival of footwork. It’s an unofficial, environmentally conscious sports-centred holiday that celebrates… More

Wow, what a day? Coming into the carpark at dawn, my first thing thoughts were this was somewhere else. Everything was in the right place but it was the difference between chalk and cheese. Overnight the… More

Neptune, Varuna, Ba Ngu, Nyai Roro Kidul or Poseidon* whatever name you know him, or her by, must have been working a bucket load of overtime to serve up the swollen swell we saw when we arrived at… More

What an amazing way to start the ninth annual Deus 9ft & Single Surf, Art, Music & Art Festival. Pumping surf that was chucking men out and about like soggy papier mache dolls. We were wrenched into… More

Rathjer than give you the normal heads up we thought we’d throw together s little retrospective piece about the Deus 9ft & Single Surf, Art, Music & Film Fest, now we are only one week out from the… More

Everything is cyclic. Blacksaw is Stephanie and Kyle, a Canadian couple who, some years back, sat on the front verandah here at the Deus Temple of Enthusiasm in Canggu Bali and dreamt of their future. It… More

When you think of a trip to Bali maybe only one in a hundred would think, oh that’s a nice place to ride a bicycle. Or is that more like one in a thousand? Well, Jack… More

So, this Scottish lass wanders into the Deus Temple… No this isn’t one of those jokes. This actually happened. It was back in September 2018, Marnie popped in and asked if she could chat with someone… More

THE SECRETS OF BLACK AND WHITE An exhibition by Zet Zaeni “The secrets of black and white photography is about using the absence of colour, to reflect the essence of life, simple but deep.” Zet Zaeni… More

We love it when Takuya “Tappy” Yoshikawa comes to visit, although this time was a flying visit that became a flurry of activity resulting in some absolutely beautiful boards that are now going in to adorn our… More

You know when you arrive in Bali and your being driven or driving from the airport to the place you’re staying in Canggu or Berawa, you gaze out the window and can’t help but see the… More

The Deus Gallery in Canggu ripped the curtains off of an incredible exhibition by Jason Sims, entitled FOR THE LOVE OF VINYL, THE MISSING RECORDS Not only visually arresting the exhibition also took us through two countries oppressions…. More

If you rocked up to the Deus Gallery in Canggu Bali last Friday night you could well have been mistaken that you had walked into a private party. Such is the crowd that comes to the yearly… More

When Forrest Minchinton drops into the Deus Temple in Canggu, we already know ahead of time we’re travelling towards fun. This calm well mannered Californian is a pleasure to have in town. There’ll be bike rides… More

Most people know a good idea when you hear one. So, when Ryan Roth an Laura Abeyta approached us about holding the inaugural TEDx Canggu at the Deus Temple our immediate response was to just ask how… More

When you are consistently coming to Bali you tend to go away from the first places you visited. Seeking out the new. The better. In some respects, we think that we are becoming more sophisticated as travelers and… More