We totally love Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine’s work, all of it from the garbage collection to the WANTS and NEEDS paintings. After their trip to Las Vegas they are giving back a little. They’ve just put up a some new works or the holidays. If you are new to their style, they make very simple and literal paintings of objects that relate to charities. The price of the painting is the price of the object — i.e. a $100 donation to Habitat for Humanity for a painting of a front door to a home that cost $100. These paintings go very quickly because they tend to be priced quite well. If you happen to pick up one of their NEED paintings, you could give the painting as a gift and along with a note about the charity aspect … that’s a double gift!!

This year just to raise as much money possible, they have put three original works up on eBay for auction.
1. Home Sweet Home — Sale goes to Habitat for Humanity
2. A New Toy — Sale goes to Toys for Tots
3. A Good Meal — Sales goes to Food Bank for NYC

If you can’t win the auction, there are some more prints that should be available soon.

Baseball season is in full swing yet again; this season’s home openers for both New York teams were very special affairs, though not because of the outcome — each team’s respective game was the last at their current stadium. The Mets and Yankees will be moving to new homes next season. To commemorate the last opening days at both Shea and Yankee stadium fans no doubt brought home programs and ticket stubs of the event, but as much as those mementos are proof of game attendance, they don’t necessarily accurately convey the experience of being there. If you’d like to take a trip down memory lane that’s more a true reflection of what it was like to sit in the stands during those historic games, our old friend at NYC Garbage have just the thing. Justin Gignac one half of the creative duo behind on of our other favorite projects has collected trash from both home openers and sealed it in its very own see-through cube, so that Yankees and Mets fans can have a one of a kind, fresh-picked souvenir from one of their very last trips to their beloved fabled arenas of athletic combat.

Wants For Sale is NYC Garbage, viral-trash-selling genius (and friend) Justin Gignac’s newest project. Everybody wants something, and Justin and his girlfriend Christine are no exception. Armed with a handful of canvases, paints, and some pretty damn-good illustration skill, they went to town painting portraits of all the things (mostly material) they wanted. Each painting represents one thing they want — and costs the exact price of the real item. So the iPhone painting costs $649.17, One Month’s Rent comes in at $1056.06, and Another Guitar for GH2 comes in at $64.98 — one of my favorites. Others include a New Bikini for Christine, Abs (gym membership) and naturally, Financial Security for one million, natch. When someone does purchase the painting, its copy shifts from “want” to “have.” Also, if there is something you want, Justin and Christine will paint it for you — unless it has anything to do with the Yankees (they’re touchy). Great concept, guys!

Justin “I Sell Garbage” Gignac is at it again, this time with a special 100 limited-edition garbage cubes from St. Patrick’s Festival in Dublin, Ireland. The 26-year-old trash magnate turns trash into treasure– when we wrote about him last June he had sold more than 800 units of high-class garbage. The Irish Edition was his first international project– a collaboration between the St. Patrick’s Festival and Dublin City Council.

Who knew that garbage could be so…..cool? Justin, a NYC resident, thinks that it can be and judging by his results, it actually appears that he’s right! NYCgarbage.com is the website where Justin sells his 100% hand-picked garbage off the streets of New York and neatly packages it up in 4.5″ clear lucite containers for your viewing pleasure (and don’t worry, any smells won’t leak out). Each cube is hand-signed by Justin, numbered, and dated just like any other piece of art. Limited edition cubes are also available that contain artifacts from prominent NYC events such as the Republican National Convention, New Year’s Eve in Times Square, and the World Series at Yankee Stadium. Typical cubes contain items like subway passes, Broadway show tickets, cigarette boxes, coffee cups, matches, and just about anything else you can imagine. Justin has sold over 800 cubes to people in 41 states and 20 countries. Order your piece of NYC trash today!