A Marriage Proposal and Portal In Real Life
How do you pop that question?
Well, if you're like the intrepid and enterprising fellow Gary Hudston, you contact VALVe and ask for custom lines to be put in a Portal 2 map that will serve as a proposal. He posted on our forums several weeks ago asking for help with a secret project, saying it had been sanctioned by VALVe and also saying Ellen McLain had done custom dialogue work for him. Several mappers agreed to work on it, and a little over a month later the map was released. Congratulations to Gary and Stephanie (she said yes!); I, for one, raise my Aperture Labs mug in a toast. The video walkthrough of the level follows below, and in honor we've decided to toss up the map as the next Community Spotlight.
And on another note--because one geeky awesome video deserves another--we've got a pretty darn fantastic in-real-life Portal video to show you. Called "Portal: No Escape", it's got special effects that make me smile and a surprise ending that's shockingly unexpected.
It's worth mentioning that I don't usually go by "LovelyNeurotoxin". I just had to create a username that Stephanie wouldn't equate with me. It is starting to grow on me, though! 
Regarding the Proposal, I'd really like to see some TWP credits involved, considering that SO MUCH of the TWP resources were used (TWP community members, TWP forums used to recruit people for the project etc.)
Regarding the Escape, very well made. The ending realization/reveal was AMAZING, and looked so great. talking about the false reality/video-screen vury good!
WinstonSmith wrote:
I, for one, raise my Aperture Labs mug in a toast.
I'll raise my Aperture mug too! 
tosses her fuzzy companion dice in the air
Thanks MissStabby, Tophattwaflle, Valve and of cource Ellen McLain
If it helps, I've been plugging TWP in interviews wherever possible.