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.

Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine are going to Las Vegas. While they’re there they’d like to gamble, hit up an all you can eat buffet for two, and even see some showgirls. Why should you care? Because you’re going to pay for them. While catering for other people’s vacation whims probably wasn’t on your list of things to do this year, the clever pair behind Wants for Sale are out to prove you can always get what you want. Don’t worry there’s something in it for you: matching Sin City-themed paintings depicting typical Vegas activities. So ante up! Maybe you’ll get lucky and they’ll bring you back a souvenir. Or a showgirl.

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.

Twice before, we told you about Wants for Sale, a site began by artist (and in our estimation, conceptual genius) Justin Gignac and his girlfriend, Christine. Aimed at providing the couple a chance to acquire objects of their material fancy through the sale of artistic renderings of said wants at the exact cost of said item, Justin and Christine were able to afford everything ranging from a slice of pizza to an iPhone. Though Wants for Sale may have been a clever scheme to gain goods and services it wasn't all about greed and guitar hero. Wants for Sale also had its soft side with paintings aimed at donating money to help kids in both New Orleans and Africa.

It's this soft side that drives the couple's latest venture, aptly named, Needs for Sale. The idea is basically the same as their other site, only the desire to make the world a better place is of paramount importance this time — winning out over the acquisition of video game systems. All of the paintings Justin and Christine sell go to help various causes; for instance, Habitat for Humanity says that a $100 donation buys a kitchen sink, so the site has a painting of a kitchen sink on sale for $100. Ultimately, the couple hopes to donate between $5,000 and $10,000 to various charitable organizations to do their part this Holiday season. Now it's time to do yours and check out Needs for Sale.

Update: for the moment, the pieces are sold out — but keep your eyes out for new pieces being added really soon.

Rock N' Roll deity Mick Jagger once sang the words, “You can't always get what you want.” Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine, the masterminds behind Wants for Sale have shown the rock god to be fallible by proving the polar opposite to be true. As previously mentioned here, the couple paints the focus of their material and sometimes immaterial desires and offers said paintings up for sale at the face value of the very thing they are trying to obtain. Since we last visited with the couple they've managed to obtain everything from a slice a pizza to a David Ortiz Road Jersey; while they've yet to acquire financial stability, rent money or an iPhone, that hasn't stopped the duo from wanting more as they recently added a Nintendo Wii to their potential cache of consumer products. The site though isn't all greed for goodies, there's a charitable side as well. For $360, you can get a painting of a birthday cake and the money goes towards saving a kid in Africa or if you feel like spending less just tell Justin a good joke to buy the gift of laughter.

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.