Based on multimedia artwork, this talk assembles and celebrates both scrap metal gatherers’ and citizens’ collective ways of seeing,noticing and working in our cities. The talk is based on a collaborative work of citizens involved in accidentally detecting and depicting with their own mobile phones the scrap metal collectors involved in an uneasy labor in various cities of Georgia. Here, both scrap metal collectors and citizens who serve as accidental ethnographers are like urban gleaners, reusing unwanted and broken materials, like scrap metal or poor images, as shared resources. Production of accidental videos and collection of scrap metal, then, could be conceived of as a form of “carework”, for they both are invested in what I prefer to call an ethics of noticing things and people that otherwise are considered marginal and meaningless.